Chapter 37
This chapter talks about acceptable and politically correct terms. And how deaf people do not speak, only because they cannot hear themselves. They are not actually mute.
Chapter 38
This chapter talks about how "deaf" is an adjective not a noun. And how writers want to be known as "writers who happen to be deaf" not deaf writers. And how deaf people use the word deaf, but it is not necessarily acceptable for hearing people to, it is more of an insult to them.
Chapter 39
The disability outlook and the ethnic outlook are totally different. The deaf are NOT "disabled". Handicap comes from "hand-in-cap" from a lottery game a long time ago, now it is used in a variety of meanings. Handicapped is a strong insult to the deaf culture.
Chapter 40
As anyone does, people use terms and names to describe themselves among other people. With deaf people being the minority and being called "the deaf", it would only make sense for them to call anyone that can hear "hearing".
Chapter 41
I like this chapter, because I love learning about hearing aids and cochlear implants. I learned about them some in A.P Psychology. Their ability to help people hear at least a little bit more than none, if not a lot more, is amazing to me. No, obviously it is not a "miracle machine" like said in the book, but I do think it is awesome to be able to hear the slightest noise from something not natural to your body. There are different types of aids, and it may be official from the school or state that a child has one implanted. But i do not think that that is necessarily a bad thing.
Chapter 42
The age of getting an implant was lowered in the 1990's, to infants. They say deaf children should be exposed to sign language as well as speech right away.
Chapter 43
Screening has three advantages, it is non-invasive, it is quick, and it is said to be accurate. But people are still split on having their children tested. Doctors think it is better to have your baby tested right off the back so you know and can help them while they are still infants rather than find out at age three or four.
Chapter 44
I think that it just comes naturally when asking if someone's baby is a boy or girl, or how old they are, and it is just as normal for deaf people to ask if someone's baby is deaf or hearing. it makes sense. They compare it to an ethnic identity. Deaf people become very close to each other, even if they are not family. Some deaf people find hearing people "not worthy of their respect" which I find wrong, but not all deaf people are snobby like that, and asking if your baby is deaf or hearing, is not being snobby either.
Chapter 45
I think it all depends on where you live. With a deaf child to hearing parents, it may be harder because the parents may not know sign language and they have to learn it, as well as teach it to their child at the same time. A hearing child to deaf parents I think would be easier because the child can learn the signs from their parents right away but also with neighbors and school they can pick up and learn hearing/speech.
Chapter 46
This one did not really come to me as much as other chapters did, but it tells how some parents are open to learning sign language and their ways, but other parents are not open to learning a new language and choose the implants method. As said in the book, :there is no one 'right way'."
Chapter 47
I think it is cool and never knew that Alexander Bell created the telephone when seeking an easy device for the Hard-of-Hearing. And that also if one parents carries the gene for deafness, and one does not, the child still has a fifty percent chance of being deaf.
Chapter 48
This chapter also did not really come to me, I do not think falling down in pregnancy could cause your baby to be deaf, I guess maybe depending on how hard you fell. But in the book they say that falling down during pregnancy will not cause your children to be deaf, due to the fluid, in the sac, the mother's body and clothes are all protecting the baby. The most that it could do, is cause guilt or shame for the mother.
