Language Deprivation Syndrome Sanjay Gulati is a medical doctor who has been working with Deaf children for over 20 years in the state of Massachusetts. In his lecture, Language Deprivation Syndrome, he went into detail about what causes Language Deprivation Syndrome (LDS), Theory of Mind (ToM) and if assistive devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants actually help avoid these issue. These topics were of great interest to me since I am going into the medical field and do not have any prior knowledge. Gulati stated that the most important issues in the deaf world and community is LDS. LDS is formed when a primary language is not developed; which also termed as L1.…
Mrs. Virtis explains the information about what can helps deaf children to develop literacy skills as in reading, writing, signing/speaking, and thinking. They believes that the strategies being used at MSD to help student develop literacy skills. It also provided for both families and school so that the children will benefit. The Deaf children have access to experiences, conversations, family life and friends by uses lots of language, ask questions, pair fingerspelling and signs to help child learn basic sight vocabulary and more specific names and words and provide access to a TDD and television decoder and last to arrange for interpreters when possible. They also believe that Literacy must be a priority between schools and home that includes the process and the product as English grammar is taught as part of the process.…
These children lacked language and development skills that their peers had obtained. The author asked himself: “does deafness affect intelligence?” The author observes and analyzes two different schools in different locations with deaf students. One school contained students, who live in unstable homes or homes that do not allow growth with their language skills. The students at the other school live in more secure homes that allowed proper growth in communication with others, and their school had deaf teachers, native signers, which lead to more developed educated confident students.…
The book “Deaf Like Me” by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley intrigued because it was about a hearing family that had a deaf daughter. I was also interested that the book was written in the perspective of the father. The statistic that vast majority of deaf children are born to hearing parents has always made me fascinated with what each hearing parent has done for their deaf child. I knew that this story would most likely have a happy ending considering the title “Deaf Like Me” I made the inference that maybe his daughter would find inclusion from being emerged in the culture of deaf individuals. “Deaf Like Me” followed the story of the parents Tom and Louise Spradley in the early 1960s.…
As we discuss communication disorders, it is important to discuss hearing disorders as well; it is essential to include hearing loss and deafness in the conversation in this course, seeing as these two things influence the ability to speak and communicate orally, seeing that hearing helps with acquiring and producing speech and language. A deaf person is a minority in the hearing world and often struggles to exchange information, ideas, feelings with those who are hearing. Thus, it is important to be informed about auditory issues and deaf culture. And the book is another resource to assist in gathering the knowledge on these issues and on the community to best serve individuals who are deaf, to remain cognizant of culturally diverse children and adults and to remain culturally competent. Train Go Sorry is also a reminder that deaf people are people first, just an everyone else who do not fit within the norm.…
Introduction I performed my observation on a 3-year, 4-month old girl, P.H., from rural Oklahoma. She is the middle child of three children. Her parents, siblings, and P.H. do/have not received any special-needs services. I was able to observe several aspects of communication, motor, social, sensory, and literacy development.…
Emotionally, Riccardo feels a sense of loneliness as he is the only child and at home with only mom and dad. Whenever he see other friends with sisters and brothers, he gets sad when he gets home and tells his parents that he wants to have a sister. He is interested in going out to the playgrounds, parks, community events and school because he wants to have friends. Parents stated that they are going to try to have a baby now that things are better for Riccardo and that they always wanted to have more children. How Theorists relate to this case study: Erickson early social and moral development was seen in Riccardo’s case.…
Key Issues in Literacy: English Language Learners’ Deficits in Literacy The literacy instruction of English Language Learners (ELLs) has become an increasingly become a debated item in educational practice and policy, in state and local school districts across the country. According to the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Educational Sciences National Center for Education Statistics, in the 2012-2013 school year, there were 4.5 million ELLs in the nation's' public schools, making up for 9.2% of the total student enrollment. In states, the greatest concentrations of ELLs, this population of students can make up between 22% to 10% of the total student enrollment.…
Inadequate development of lower order skills prevents higher order skills from being acquired. Early oral language development is the main precursor of reading development. Reading levels of deaf or hard of hearing students are delayed due to the limited amount of reading they are exposed to as children, difficulties with language comprehension and cognition are among the subjects that need to be addressed by educators (Marschark et al., 2012). Children who are deaf or hard of hearing commonly graduate high school with a fourth-grade literacy skill level. A student in the fourth grade is mastering skills in the field of sequence of events, summarization, identifying the main idea and understanding similes and metaphors.…
When a child grows up, it goes through various speaking phases. At the beginning he/she starts With " goo goo" And " gaa gaa" and later it is able to say the actual words. Frankenstein's monster could possibly attain how to speak the same way a child does. Thanks to the understanding of language acquisition, there is a possibility that the monster could have an actual conversation with anyone. Taking into consideration language acquisition, language development theories, and human interaction, there is a possibility the monster could learn to speak perfectly.…
What would living in a world without sound feel like? How would the educational experience be different if you were the only one in a classroom who could not hear the instructions from your teacher? What would the emotions be of someone experiencing all of this? These questions are crucial to the understanding of deaf culture (as an entity) and in relation to the majority-hearing world. Deafness, similar to homosexuality, is more than a disease or a condition – medically diagnosed or not.…
The choice of teaching model used by a teacher varies depending on the learning theories that each teacher has been exposed to in the course of their training. In conjunction, teachers develop ideas and beliefs about how they are supposed to approach the issue of making children learn. Some use what they have been taught throughout study in order to form their own opinions on how to approach literacy development among students, while others use different theories by different theorists (Luke, 2012). As it goes then, it can be argued that there is no one best reading model that should be adopted by each and every teacher due to the different opinions held by each individual, on what is best for a class of students. However,…
From birth onwards language is a device which every human possesses, it is used as a tool to communicate and interact with other humans around us. The system of language includes the use of words, grammar and sounds. (Cambridge University Press, 2015).The use of language in humans is significant not only because it facilitates communication but also because humans are the only species who have the ability to produce language. According to Noam Chomsky humans are “genetically pre-programmed to learn language”.…
The classroom should be a safe and welcoming environment where all students feel comfortable participating, in order to enhance their learning. This environment should include all students, even students with disabilities. A student with disabilities still deserves a fair opportunity to learn, they will just need certain accommodations to assist them in being able to learn to the best of their abilities. Although disabilities do create some obstacles in the classroom, with the help of the student, their parents, their teachers, and others, an educational plan can be made to help the student succeed. There are many disabilities that can affect the students’ ability to learn in the classroom.…
English literacy is of paramount importance for the acquisition of students’ educational development. It is considered to be the commodity by which economic and social status are measured (Baker, 2011). It is also the zenith for schooling and the key to economic self-advancement, personal empowerment and social control. Accessing to English literacy helps students acquire higher educational attainments, employment and vocational mobility (Bialystock, 2001, cited in Baker, 2011).…