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"The unheard" for those who c an hear radio go to npr.org and look for this book title..I caught the intreview already started so thsi guy J. Wheeler? wrote a book about deafness in Africa??
He had an operation (cochelar implant?) and says that it changed its life... that deaf people are alone with their thoughts (hello ASL?) anyway what i got was very sketchy... ps go read and lets see that it is about? he presented the deaf community as a community witout any means of communication if it was not for that operation.... i am at work, dont have that much time...
He had an operation (cochelar implant?) and says that it changed its life... that deaf people are alone with their thoughts (hello ASL?) anyway what i got was very sketchy... ps go read and lets see that it is about? he presented the deaf community as a community witout any means of communication if it was not for that operation.... i am at work, dont have that much time...
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Re: Book on NPR
Sat, September 15, 2007 - 12:29 PMah there is the link but no transcript from teh interview ,just audio files and book comments.. yes he was implanted in 2005 with his brother.
I wanted to give a feed back about his commetns about the deaf community but could not find any email to write to.. if u do, let me know. -
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Sat, September 15, 2007 - 3:42 PMAha! My mom texted me with that book title this morning and I wondered where she got it from. It's by Josh Swiller and the whole title is, The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa. I'll get the book because my mom told me too. Tomorrow. -
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Sun, September 16, 2007 - 5:27 AMyes this is the one..... I mean I loved the subject but i did not like what he said about the Deaf community and teh fact that he did not mention ASL as a wonderful mode of communication. Rather he emphasised on the fact that, even thought the comminuty was a lot of support, the Deaf person is alone with their though most of the time .... well i may be true for teh Deaf within the hearing world, but certainly not within the deaf community if people sign, right? -
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Sun, September 16, 2007 - 10:02 AMI'm not sure what was said. My parents just sent me the text to get the book. I believe ASL would work, as long as you are within a community. I live in a small town and don't know of a deaf community here so I live in the hearing world and would do better off with cochlear implant too. I've tried getting family to take ASL in the past and it worked for a bit but I am still hearing. The ASL fell by the way side. Use it or lose it. I do feel alone sometimes in a crowd. He's right. -
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Sun, September 16, 2007 - 11:02 AMoops dont know what happend to this answer so will tyoe it again...
Becoming Deaf as a adult within a hearing community is way worse and diiferent than being Bon Deaf within the Deaf signing community...But once again this dictinction is rarely mentionned in the hearinf world..
It is easier got hearing to adapt than Deaf to adapt..
BTW a friend of my son got killed in a fire apartment in Brokklyn last week.. No fire alarm... went to a deaf on line shopping products to see the price... some 200 S on sale!!!!!! disgusted...
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