This week we finished up our hearing impairments project.
This ended up being a really neat project for me because I had three personal
connections. My grandpa is an audiologist so he has given me some info about cochlear
implants that I couldn’t have found on the internet. I also happened to make a
new friend less than a week ago who has a deaf daughter! She shared some
personal experiences that heped me to realize just how much of a difference
tools and accommodations make in the lives of people with hearing impairments. I
have another friend whose son went through cancer treatments when he was just
two years old. He suffered hearing loss early on and now wears hearing aids at
age 5. They are hoping to get him into a trial for a stem cell treatment to
treat hearing loss. I don’t think it was a coincidence that I was assigned
hearing impairments as my disability project.
We acted out a case study about a boy named Nathan. I played
his mother and was a bit defensive about him needing special education. This
was a really neat experience because I really felt like his mother! I think I
really felt what the mother felt. I didn’t want him labeled, but I also wanted
what was the very best for my son. These role plays really help me to
understand how the parents and teachers feel when they are working with
students who may have special needs.
This is me "playing" Nathan's Mom
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