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I am an ASL major and I need someone to answer about 15 questions about what it was like for them growing up Deaf. These questions are for a paper for one of my classes. If someone can help I would be very grateful. Thanks, Amy
 
We are all bored to death and would love to help you. Put the questions up right here and several of us will answer. I almost promise. :wave:
 
1. What's your name?
2. where you born deaf or later became deaf?
3. what was it like growing up deaf?
4. Do you lip read and sign? Do you find lip reading difficult?
5. What type of school did you go to? (mainstream, school for the deaf etc.)
6. Would you have preferred to go to the other choice for school or were you happy with your school.
7. Did you feel that you learned as much as a hearing person at your school?
8. Did you have special accommodations in school? Were they helpful?
9. When did you first learn sign language? Was it at home or school?
10. Did you attend college? Did the college offer you the accommodations you need?
11. Is there anything you felt you missed out on due to deafness? If so , what and why?
12. As a deaf student what subject did you find hard and what subject did you enjoy?
13. Did you have many friends in school? Were the deaf or hearing?
 
gigglz1619 said:
1. What's your name?
Prefer not to give out my real name
2. where you born deaf or later became deaf?
Born deaf
3. what was it like growing up deaf?
A struggle cuz of my needs not being met fully
4. Do you lip read and sign? Do you find lip reading difficult?
both...lipreading is hell!
5. What type of school did you go to? (mainstream, school for the deaf etc.)
mainstreamed
6. Would you have preferred to go to the other choice for school or were you happy with your school.
Preferred to go to a Deaf school or a Deaf program where ASL was the language of instruction.
7. Did you feel that you learned as much as a hearing person at your school?
I dont think so due to not having full access to everything like my hearing peers did
8. Did you have special accommodations in school? Were they helpful?
NOTHING!
9. When did you first learn sign language? Was it at home or school?
Learned at the age of 25 and at Arizona State when I needed classes to meet my foreign language requirement...thank god!
10. Did you attend college? Did the college offer you the accommodations you need?
Yes, at first they provided an oral terp...still didnt work, then CART...too hard on my eyes and then ASL terp when I finally learned ASL..the BEST!
11. Is there anything you felt you missed out on due to deafness? If so , what and why?
Oh gosh...almost everything cuz no visual cues were provided.
12. As a deaf student what subject did you find hard and what subject did you enjoy?
Poetry was hard. I enjoyed PE cuz I was athletic
13. Did you have many friends in school? Were the deaf or hearing?
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Yes, I had plenty but mostly surface ..all hearing and one other oral deaf girl (she is now my best friend and also fluent in ASL now)
 
gigglz1619 said:
1. What's your name?
Bottesini
2. where you born deaf or later became deaf?
Born
3. what was it like growing up deaf?
Normal for me.
4. Do you lip read and sign? Do you find lip reading difficult?
Yes. I am a pretty good lip reader.
5. What type of school did you go to? (mainstream, school for the deaf etc.)
Mainstream
6. Would you have preferred to go to the other choice for school or were you happy with your school.
In retrospect I would have preferred a different education.
7. Did you feel that you learned as much as a hearing person at your school?
No
8. Did you have special accommodations in school? Were they helpful?
Yes I did. Yes they were.
9. When did you first learn sign language? Was it at home or school?
At grandparents home. I sign PSE and I not a really fluent signer.
10. Did you attend college? Did the college offer you the accommodations you need?
Yes and yes.
11. Is there anything you felt you missed out on due to deafness? If so , what and why?
A lot of normal friendships. Did not fit in well where I was.
12. As a deaf student what subject did you find hard and what subject did you enjoy?
I like reading and was bad in math.
13. Did you have many friends in school? Were the deaf or hearing?
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I really had one friend in school, a hearing girl who went on to become a special education teacher. We stayed friends until her death.
 
gigglz1619 said:
Bottesini
why do you feel that you didn't learn as much as a hearing person?
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Missed a lot. I was an early mainstream student. In high school I had to rely on front row placement and lipreading.

It is easy to miss a lot.
 
1. What's your name?
Deafteen
2. where you born deaf or later became deaf?
Became deaf shortly after birth up to 3 months old
3. what was it like growing up deaf?
Normal for me, I would say that- Iv never been hearing
4. Do you lip read and sign? Do you find lip reading difficult?
Lipread and sign, I love lipread and find it easy peasy lemon squeezy
5. What type of school did you go to? (mainstream, school for the deaf etc.)
For primary school for the deaf, for secondary mainstream with deaf unit
6. Would you have preferred to go to the other choice for school or were you happy with your school.
Happy
7. Did you feel that you learned as much as a hearing person at your school?
Yes
8. Did you have special accommodations in school? Were they helpful?
Extra time, CSW, own room for exams
9. When did you first learn sign language? Was it at home or school?
School/home
10. Did you attend college? Did the college offer you the accommodations you need?
Yeah still attending, signer, extra time own room for exams
11. Is there anything you felt you missed out on due to deafness? If so , what and why?
Nope
12. As a deaf student what subject did you find hard and what subject did you enjoy?
Maths and english, still struggle with maths today
13. Did you have many friends in school? Were the deaf or hearing?
Mostly deaf
 
gigglz1619 said:
Bottesini
What kind of accomodations did you have in school?
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Front row seating, teachers wrote out for me a lot of what was required, counseling, speech therapy.

That is middle and high school. Everyone was just thrown into the mainstream.

Elementary had more self contained classroom with other hoh/deaf students.
 
1. What's your name?
Buffalo
2. where you born deaf or later became deaf?
born deaf
3. what was it like growing up deaf?
Bored! Bored! Remember there was no closed-caption back then. My family bought the oralism philosophy. Sigh!
4. Do you lip read and sign? Do you find lip reading difficult?
I do both. I find that I have to wear my hearing aids in order to read lips and listening. I just can't do one or the other.
5. What type of school did you go to? (mainstream, school for the deaf etc.)
A public city school for the deaf up to 8th grade and it was oralism and it accepted sign language in my last few years there. It is a day school where I commuted by the bus. A private catholic school in the next state for the high school where I flew home for vacations/summers and the teachers there sign (mostly PSE).
6. Would you have preferred to go to the other choice for school or were you happy with your school.
I wasn't happy with the elementary school and I was learning more from books than from that school. That is why I had to persude my mother to send me to this private school. It is good school aside from certain staff people that I think that shouldn't be teaching the deaf kids.
7. Did you feel that you learned as much as a hearing person at your school?
At the high school, yes. The elementary school, no way.
8. Did you have special accommodations in school? Were they helpful?
Those headphones!! You get pain in the ears when you had wore it too long. That was in 60's and the headphones are designed poorly. After that, it is just my hearing aids.
9. When did you first learn sign language? Was it at home or school?
I learned ASL from other kids when I was little. Mainly on the school bus where one can sign freely.
10. Did you attend college? Did the college offer you the accommodations you need?
Yes, the teachers signed. I even took some classes at RIT where I got an interpreter/notetaker. I prefer signing teachers over interpreters
11. Is there anything you felt you missed out on due to deafness? If so , what and why?
Yes, the society need to accept sign language - PSE or ASL or both. When I read the book on Martha's Vineyard where everybody signed back then, it is exactly what I want to see in today's society. I still don't understand why the society mainly shun sign language because I can see how they can benefit by signing.
12. As a deaf student what subject did you find hard and what subject did you enjoy?
Math, because all of my math teachers have short temper and it is hard to learn from them when one is afraid of them. English, history and certain parts of science are fun for me.
13. Did you have many friends in school? Were the deaf or hearing?
Many deaf friends. I also have my hearing cousins and hearing best friend outside the school.
 
1. What's your name?
Alicia
2. where you born deaf or later became deaf?
later
3. what was it like growing up deaf?
i didn't
4. Do you lip read and sign? Do you find lip reading difficult?
I am learning ASL and I do lipread although I am not always the best at it lol
5. What type of school did you go to? (mainstream, school for the deaf etc.)
mainstream
6. Would you have preferred to go to the other choice for school or were you happy with your school.
happy since I didn't start losing my hearing until 10th grade
7. Did you feel that you learned as much as a hearing person at your school?
without ha's for 3 years with a hearing loss it was hard to catch up and my grades suffered
8. Did you have special accommodations in school? Were they helpful?
i have an fm system, preferential seating, and i have note takers
9. When did you first learn sign language? Was it at home or school?
currently am teaching myself and will take a class in the summer
10. Did you attend college? Did the college offer you the accommodations you need?
i am in uni right now and they do offer me accomodations which i have
11. Is there anything you felt you missed out on due to deafness? If so , what and why?
not really..maybe whispering now but meh
12. As a deaf student what subject did you find hard and what subject did you enjoy?
any subjects with teachers with accents i find hard
13. Did you have many friends in school? Were the deaf or hearing?
I have mostly all hearing friends and a few Ddeaf friends:)
 
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