...Nick Mendonca Mr. Picciuto Comp 5 Summer; 8-11:25am 17 June 2014 Technology for the Deaf We live in a world of increasingly rapid technological advancement. While we may not have Star Trek’s “Universal Translator” or “Telepresence” figured out yet, we do have “Communicators” (cell phones!). These advances have changed the way everyone communicates, but one community in particular—the Deaf community—is benefiting in amazing ways. New technologies are changing and enhancing everyday Deaf communication. When a hearing person wants to talk with a Deaf person, there is a language barrier to overcome. This can be resolved if the hearing person learns ASL, or, if the Deaf person knows English, they can exchange written messages. No matter what method is used, however, the process is time consuming, difficult, and one person won’t be able to talk in their native language. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if we had easy access to a translator, any time we liked? As it so happens, researchers from Microsoft are hoping to make that happen. New software in development for Microsoft’s Kinect motion-capture device will enable a person to communicate using ASL with a person who speaks English (ASHA 2013). Kinect is a fascinating device that uses multiple cameras and infrared lights in order to track body movement and recognize gestures. The translation software uses the power of Kinect in two ways: first, it can translate body movements from the ASL signer and turn it into written or spoken...
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...In Communication Essay: Deaf and Hard of HearingCommunication for deaf or hard of hearing people has always been veryfrustrating when trying to communicate with hearing people. Deaf people have tended toform deaf communities because of deaf pride, and a belief that they do not have adisability. However, this has led to a barrier between deaf and hearing people, and thesebarriers can lead to consequences because many hearing people do not know how tointeract with deaf people. Even people who are deaf or hard of hearing and that are notpart of a deaf community (such as if they chose to attend public school rather than aschool for the deaf) can have much difficulty when communicating with hearing people.Problems with communication occur all over the place for deaf people such as within afamily, in school, in the workforce.When a child is deaf, but his or her parents are hearing, it can create manyproblems with communication. If the parents have little or no experience with deafpeople, they will face challenges at first before they learn sign language and learn how toaccommodate their child. If parents don’t know how to properly communicate with theirchild, they will have problems raising them. With communication problems will cometrouble because they wont know how to scold their child or tell them when they are doingwrong, make their child feel included and a part of the family, and be a normal lovingparent. The sooner parents familiarize themselves with deaf culture, sign language...
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...Michelle Daniels Professor Freas July 20, 2015 Technologies and Advancements for the Deaf Technology advancements for the Deaf have brought many opportunities for those affected by hearing loss or those suffering from a complete lack of hearing at all. As a result of these advancements, many beneficial changes regarding employment for the hearing impaired, Deaf culture, as well as access to information, simply access to the world as a basic human right, have come to light. There have many advancements employing the telephone system, television, as well as computers. Through the years we can see there have been vast changes in technology and what they’ve contributed to an entire group of people. According to Christian L. Lee, beginning in 1876, one of the first important advancements to have an effect on the deaf was patented by Alexander Graham Bell with his invention of the telephone. Although this may seem like a significant advancement for anyone other than those within the deaf community, it most certainly proved to be an asset to the Deaf with the additional advancements to follow in its upcoming 100 years....
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...SILA 306 ASL 2 What is Deafhood as respecting in the deaf culture? Deafhood is a term that loosely means a Deaf person finding and understanding their Deaf culture. This is not a static term and it usually refers to a process by which a Deaf person must go through in order to discover themselves and their roles in the Deaf community. Deafhood is a word that was coined by the author of Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood, by Paddy Ladd. With regards to deafness, the people of the past felt lost or upset with being deaf. The families of the deaf would force their children to go to a hearing school and assimilate with their culture. Schools would have to put labels on the children’s clothing to differentiate them. I think that these measures would make a child uncomfortable with his deafness. There were not many schools that a child can have access to so it would be understandable that the child will feel frustrated with himself about his situation. Ladd’s book asserts that deafness is a positive thing and that one should embrace their deafness. On a similar note, the deaf should not consider their inability to hear as a disease or handicap that needs to be cured. Deafhood is the understanding of how remarkable it is to be Deaf and be okay with that. These days with the internet and technology, it is easy for a child and his family to find a community near them. It is a lot easier to have a deaf person reach Deafhood, much like a normal child would reach...
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...vary depending upon its context and culture that it is being communicated to. The chapter talks about how different the dynamics of intercultural nonverbal communication are across different cultural groups. In this ICC artifact assignment we will examine and look at the topic of The Cochlear implant controversy. The controversy involves the scientific hearing assistance breakthrough device for the deaf community, and whether or not its use and development will be the ultimate removal of and extinction of the deaf community as a culture. The following essay will examine the relevance and truth to this argument and examine the negative and positive manifestations to the Deaf culture from the development and use of the Cochlear Implant itself. The Chapter talks about several research findings about nonverbal communication. Research investigating the universality of nonverbal communication has focused on four areas: (1) the relationship of human behavior to that of primates (particularly chimpanzees) (p. (2) nonverbal communication of sensory-deprived children who are blind or deaf, (3) facial expressions, and (4) universal functions of nonverbal social behavior. Chimpanzees and humans share many nonverbal behaviors. For example both can exhibit a gesture that represents recognition which is an eyebrow raise done after some...
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...Amber Kiker Kiker 1 Professor McCarthy English 102 August 12, 2015 Deaf Employment in the Professional Sector Profound hearing loss affects millions of people in the United States today. According to the Gualledette Research Institute there are currently over a million people between the ages of 6 and 65 who are Deaf (Harrington 1). While several state and federally funded programs have been implemented to support early and post-secondary education for the Deaf, evidence points to a significant lack of job placement assistance for Deaf young adults transitioning from college to independent living. Deaf graduates often return home to live with family due to an inability to obtain employment reflective of their academic achievements. Currently in America the most common type of employment held by Deaf individuals is limited primarily to the service and manufacturing industries. The objective of this research is to investigate the professional sector of employment in the United States to uncover the driving mechanisms behind the non-presence of the Deaf Community, specifically those with post-secondary education, and to examine what steps are being taken to resolve this apparent disparity. In the hearing world, graduating from college is the beginning of an exciting chapter of a young adult’s life as it represents the transition from higher education into the world of professional employment. It is the time one gets to put into practice the skills they have...
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...incapability to hear. But being Deaf is about more than the ability to hear or not. The Deaf Culture is a contributed institution of communities that are impacted by deafness and use sign languages as the leading method of communication. It is a set of social beliefs, behaviors, morals, values, and art. American Sign Language, or ASL, is one of the most widely used languages in the United States. ASL is not universal and is used differently around the world. General languages use voice and lip movement to communicate, signers use their hands and facial expressions, along with body language in order to convey accurate meaning. Members of the Deaf community take pride in their identity and...
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...Comparison of Deaf Culture and Hearing Culture in the USA | |(Using the Hofstede Cultural Comparison Assignment as a guide) | |Where Deaf Culture Would Score If Included in the Geert Hofstede™ Cultural Dimensions | | | |Nathaneil Godfrey | | | PDI Power Distance Indicator Power distance This dimension deals with the fact that all individuals in societies are not equal – it expresses the attitude of the culture towards these inequalities amongst us. Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally. It has to do with the fact that a society’s inequality is endorsed by the followers as much as by the leaders. http://geert-hofstede.com/ Deaf culture I think Deaf culture would...
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...Discrimination against Deaf people in the Workplace. Imagine you’re Deaf and you’re trying to obtain a job, but every time you request a sign language interpreter to be present during the interview you get a call or email stating that you are no longer being considered for the position. There is no explanation as to why and if there is an explanation, it’s an unjustified one. Usually it’ll be the same answer, you’re not going to be able to do this job if you can’t hear. Or, this job is going to be too hard for you since you’re Deaf. Then, when further pressed on the matter you’re completely ignored. Finally, after much struggle, you manage to get your hands on that much needed job, but suddenly you’re shunned by some fellow coworkers or you...
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...Labeling deafness as a disability fails to acknowledge the social process through which a Deaf child could become ostracized and excluded from society. It is commonly argued that if a child becomes isolated, it was the fault of the disability itself, not the society as large. Historically, the dominant hearing culture has demoted Deaf people to social categories such as handicapped, disabled, and outsider (Kelleher, 2017). An ever-increasing number of Deaf people do not consider themselves to be handicapped or disabled, but demand to be recognized and respected as a distinct cultural group with its own beliefs, needs, opinions, customs and language (Padden, 2006). The Deaf Community disputes deafness as a disability and they are currently...
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...reinforced the same idea -- In the future the traditional concept of phone conversation would not be confined to mere audio, but to vivid interactions with our counterpart. The future is already with us, and it has made cartoons’ technologies a reality. “being yelled at by his boss, Cosmo…” “on the cartoon, …” Watch verb tenses “Ever since…I have been enchanted” (present perfect) “of being in different” (a gerund often follows a preposition) “the cartoons’” Good transition, but break to another paragraph. Although the introduction of webcam in mobile devices does not solve every communication problem, mobile video calling has revolutionized the way we communicate in this new technology era. It is a fact that we do not “need” to communicate with video; however, it does sometimes add another useful and pleasant dimension by providing a much richer experience than a phone conversation. A video calling allows the users to perceive instant face expressions that can be understood as emotions. This is a great help at the time to adopt our voice tone and way of speaking since now we know how is our counterpart reacting. In doing so, mobile video calling has made the barrier of distance more flexible to help link people together, gave voices to the deaf, and provide for rapid live broadcasting feedback in the moment of a disaster. “of webcams in mobile…” “technological era” (word form = adjective) “facial expressions” “in adapting our…” “how our counterpart is reacting” ...
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...Running head: DEAF PEOPLE SHOULD NOT USE SPERM DONOR WHO IS LIKELY TO GIVE THEM A DEAF CHILD Deaf People Should Not Use Sperm Donor Who Is Likely to Give Them a Deaf Child Course number and title Instructor’s name University Date Nowadays the topic ‘to design’ or ‘not to design’ a deaf child turns the debate over designer babies, providing various specialists, such as genetics counsellors, ethicists, scientists and others with a dilemma. Some stated that it is immoral to prohibit people creating a deaf child, but others are sure that it is a right step and it will help to change contemporary situation in better side. I agree with the last group of people and think that Deaf People should not use sperm donor who is likely to give them a Deaf child. The are two different categories of deaf people, one are ordinary people with hearing disabilities, while others are unusual people, who identify themselves as ‘Deaf’ with a capital ‘D’. Both groups are people with hearing disabilities, but their attitude to this question is quite different. The last consider that their Deaf status is a kind of their special culture, their special world and people should to respect their wishes, but society is observing this issue from different side and is disagree to allow the appearance of deaf children by their parents’ wishes. Debating this topic it is important to think about true nature of things and remember the beginning of our life on the planet. Centuries...
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...CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Technology has always been a great part of people’s everyday lives. The innovation of every piece of work has been developed through the use of advanced technology and new innovations. These new technologies and innovations are bringing people to new perspective of daily living. Nowadays, people are very technology conscious that it seems that they cannot live now without these new technologies, such as using the internet to feed their conscious minds, to browsing for new menus, to searching the most popular and highest paid personalities, to political issues point of view, and sometimes to showcasing the talents of the most talented even though some of these talented are specially able people. Many people are very thankful that one of the greatest inventions in human kind is the mobile phone.Many tools and applications have been invented and are continuously being produced. One of the most significant technology advances in education is also the use of mobile application. Through these mobile phones, people can easily communicate with one another, whether some of these people are normal or some are especiallyabled ones. Also, through these mobile phones, conflicts or misunderstandings can be solved; sometimes a fight can also ignite through it if it was not used for good. But of course, we need to use the technology wherein we can benefit from it, and also we need to think of other people’s sake. As the saying goes, you are truly living and loving...
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... the Torah protected the deaf from being cursed by others, but did not allow them to participate fully in the rituals of the Temple. Special laws concerning marriage and property were established for deaf-mutes, but deaf-mutes were not allowed to be witnesses in the courts. (Camp) During 1500-1620 there were many influences from Italian and Spanish educators for deaf children. Italian physician Girolamo Cardano was the first to challenge the pronouncements of Aristotle. He believed that hearing words was not necessary for the understanding of ideas. He said that deaf people were capable of using their minds, argued for the importance of teaching them, and was one of the first to state that deaf people could learn to read and write without learning how to speak first. Pedro Ponce De Leon taught deaf sons of the Spanish nobility in order that they might inherit property. He used reading and writing, but also taught speech. He apparently traced letters and indicated pronunciation with lip movements to introduce and develop speech among his students. Pablo Bonet taught the sons of Spanish noblemen to read and speak using the one-handed alphabet. He published the first book on deaf education in 1620 in Madrid. The book depicted Bonet's form of a manual alphabet. His intent was to further the oral and manual education of deaf people in Spain. Around 1760, a French priest, Charles Michel De L'Eppe, established the first free public school for the deaf in France. De L'Eppe tried...
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...the person is out they can receive the email to their phones. Problems with emails is that the emails can be sent to a trash folder which means you will not know that you have been sent the email. Not every email is received and having a crowded inbox can mistake you for a different email or you may not see the email. Touch: Touch communication can show a person reassurance, empathy and also respect. Being touched can be people’s weak points, some may not want to be touched or like being touched. Touching can invade people’s person space, or it can be sexual harassment. It is important to remember when communicating through touch that other cultures non-verbal communication is different to other cultures. Using touch communication can let deaf or blind people know that you are in their presence. A hand on the shoulder for one person may mean a supportive gesture, handshakes are a common form of touch communication, and a gentle touch can be more comforting than a slightly rougher touch. Before touching someone it is good to check with them first, such as saying “Are you ok with this?” to check if they will be comfortable with the touching. Arts and Crafts: Arts and Crafts are therapeutic activities. Using arts and crafts to communicate can help somebody to tell a story, such as what’s happened in their life, day or...
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