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Hello!
My name is Lauren McIntyre. I am hearing. I grew up in a public school with only two deaf students. Looking back, I wish I would have known more about Deaf culture as a child, so I am implementing an ASL/Deaf culture program at the public school in my community. I would love some input from the perspective of someone who is deaf, and has experienced challenges in the public school setting. I want to teach the kids based on what is relevant to the Deaf community, and NOT what hearing individuals think about Deaf culture.
Would anyone like to talk more?

Thanks,
-Lauren
 
I guess you could say homework. I don't know much about Deaf culture. My aunt is hard of hearing, and her only method of communication is ASL. I want to learn for her, and I want to create more awareness in my rural community because of the way she feels. Secluded, alone, misunderstood, and not taken seriously.
 
laurencheri said:
Hello!
My name is Lauren McIntyre. I am hearing. I grew up in a public school with only two deaf students. Looking back, I wish I would have known more about Deaf culture as a child, so I am implementing an ASL/Deaf culture program at the public school in my community. I would love some input from the perspective of someone who is deaf, and has experienced challenges in the public school setting. I want to teach the kids based on what is relevant to the Deaf community, and NOT what hearing individuals think about Deaf culture.
Would anyone like to talk more?

Thanks,
-Lauren
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laurencheri said:
I guess you could say homework. I don't know much about Deaf culture. My aunt is hard of hearing, and her only method of communication is ASL. I want to learn for her, and I want to create more awareness in my rural community because of the way she feels. Secluded, alone, misunderstood, and not taken seriously.
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There isn't deaf culture in a public school with a couple of mainstreamed deaf students.
They are either a part of the hearing culture or a part of nothing.

It's pointless.
 
lauren,you should be careful putting surname on public forum....becareful...i late deaf age 30 so no much help...
it shame you and aunty unable to communicate when you was younger,nothing stopping aunty explaining what her life as a child like....do you have deaf clubs if so go,they would have nights/days where young kids parents etc
 
why not discuss with your aunt?

how can you implement a Deaf culture program if you're not d/Deaf?
 
I certainly didn't want to offend anyone. I do not want to implement a Deaf culture program. We are learning ASL, and I thought it might be a good idea to include a little about Deaf culture. I didn't want to talk about what I have read, I thought it might be better to get information from the Deaf community, so that these students have relevant information. I guess I'll just stick with the online readings. :/
 
I see where these questions have been repetitious. Certainly no offense to anyone. I did not know a thing about being deaf when I was a child. The two Deaf students in my school were part of the special day class, which makes me VERY sad!! One of them was in my class, he depended on his mother for interpreting. After we graduated she passed away, and not too long after he O.D. and passed away. If we had known how to communicate with him, and meet his needs, perhaps he would have felt more accepted in school. He must have felt as if he had no resources, because he truly didn't except for his mom. I don't ever want to see that situation play out again!
 
That is the reason why we need special accommodations like ASL interpreter, close or open captioned on films (schools), have notetakers to write down what the teachers say in the lectures. I struggled being in the hearing classrooms not making out what the teachers and other hearing students said. I did not have excellent grades. Hearing people thought and still think hearing aids or CIs help deaf people to hear clearly and to pick up the words they spoke. It is true that we could not pick the words up. That is why we need to depend on ASL more than the lipreading. Lipreading is not accurate as we could not pick up a few words or sentences out of 30% of speech. We misunderstood a lot from lipreading. Not good. ASL is the way for us to be able to understand what is going on and to get better grades. But the hearing society and the hearing teachers including the hearing principals don't get it. They still believe we can do that by listening and speaking. **shaking my head** Uh, uh. No. **sigh**
 
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