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Deafness and Reading by Jesus Algeria
The article which is mainly based on facts regarding deafness and reading by the people with hearing impairments tries to spell out ways which individuals who take care of deaf people can use to help them regain their ability in learning and reading through the use of sign language. The article talks of the skills needed by the deaf in ensuring that they are good at communicating with other individuals, together with possessing the ability to read through sign language (Paul, 12). Apart from giving out guidelines on how to teach and learn sign language as a mode of communication, Jesus Alegria, the author of the book argues also argues that there are main reasons why deaf individuals, especially children are unable to use the sign language hence making it hard for them to communicate and relate freely with one another.
Learning sign language according to the author is a process, whereby the author talks of two main causes which make the process hard for both parties, hence slowing down the ability of the victims in understanding sign language. Learning sign language requires the deaf to have a good ability in linguistics (Alegria, 460). Having that ability means that the child is able to learn anything shown by the instructors with no much questions concerning the whole process. Being limited to hearing makes it hard for individuals to understand the general knowledge about the world and what is happening now. The statement means that these people, especially the children live in a world where they do not have any knowledge about different ideas and perspectives in the world unlike the people who have full ability in hearing. Alegria feels that understanding sign language can solve the whole problem, where he emphasizes on giving the knowledge to young children as they grow. The link below leads to the whole document by the author, where he makes full explanations on what he feels about deafness and how people regard the situation. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-1731-1_24
Works Cited
Alegria, Jésus. “Deafness and reading.” Handbook of children’s literacy. Springer, Dordrecht, 2004. 459-489.
Paul, Peter V. “Reading vocabulary knowledge and deafness.” The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 1.1 (1996): 3-15.
