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Weekly Reading 02

Weekly Reading 02

Q Name______________________________ Date______________ Reading #___ Article Title:______________________________________________________________ After reading the article, use the prompts below to comment on how the article connects to the following: A. Your Deaf Sociology class and/or the Deaf Community: B. Another course you’ve taken here at LaGuardia: C. Your own experience (past or present): D. Your Future Job with the Deaf Community

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A. Your Deaf Sociology class and/or the Deaf Community: That article has a strong connection to the Deaf Sociology class. The article describes the experience of deaf woman through her son’s eyes. The article describes the lack of deaf culture representation and what it means to be deaf in the last century. According to the article, “she had spent her first eighteen years learning how to do what could not have seemed more unnatural: pretending to hear.” The idea that the person has to hide her/his identity puts a lot of pressure on emotional (including brain) and physical health of the individual. “...method had disastrous consequences for my mother’s ability to process and synthesize complex ideas. Past a certain threshold, things simply stopped making sense to her.”