Sometimes a film comes along that says in one minute what you’d struggle to say in an hour. This beautiful short is about communication. Watch it and you’ll get the rest.
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Sam
October 2, 2012
This is a fabulously created piece of film and I understand the premise but it does seem like a rather sweeping generalisation – I am profoundly deaf and did not have access to BSL when growing up, yet I am a graduate, indeed, I have a postgraduate diploma in management. (I am also rather proud of my stage two BSL gained last year!! 🙂 ) Surely we can accept that it is not all or nothing but whatever works for the person in question. Granted, we may not know what is right until it is too late, but the generalisation still grates a bit.
E. A. Hughes
October 2, 2012
Reblogged this on Vilu Nilenad and commented:
Beautiful. Just … Beautiful. Something for parents of Deaf babies to think about, no?
sandrap
October 2, 2012
Not amused by this at all.
David
October 2, 2012
Not signing with deaf/HoH infants is language deprivation. Pointing to families who have managed to overcome the damage done by this language deprivation does *not* mean that the damage never occurred.
Visual language should be the *first* intervention for deaf/HoH infants, regardless of whatever other interventions or therapies might also be chosen. Sign need not exclude other choices, but the other choices should never exclude signing.
David
Sam
October 2, 2012
David, I have to say that I do not feel language deprived or damaged! 🙂
David
October 3, 2012
Sam,
That does not mean that the language deprivation and damage never occurred, only that the therapies seem to have succeeded. A significant portion of the therapy resources expended on behalf of deaf/HoH children are to undo the results of poorly informed parental choices.
Deaf/HoH children could go so much farther if we could start with a solid (visual) language base.
David