While watching the documentary “Through Deaf Eyes” there was one word that stood out to me, the word “normal”. Almost every individual in the film that was interviewed, stated that they just want to be treated as a normal human being. They stated they could do everything a hearing person can do minus hearing. The word normal for some time was only associated with hearing people, but currently today there are three hundred thousand deaf people in America. That number is a majority of the population, however small they deserve their rights, privileges and their choice of language. The deaf community is a tight-knit, passionate, group of normal people that are capable of anything.
One of the most surprising facts was Oralism, the system of…show more content… The film displayed that people would try ridicules applications and experiments just to cure their child's deafness. Such as, directing electric currents into the ear to bring back life to the auditory nerve. Other experiments included, taking a child on an airplane ride with twists and drops to try to reach different degrees of air pressure to cure deafness. It’s astonishing that people tried to cure deafness, like they thought the ear was not fully developed or mute and through manipulation hearing would be possible.
Prior to viewing this documentary I did not know there was a device that replaced the function of the damaged inner ear and opened the world of sound for deaf people. I think the Cochlear implant is a great invention and has helped benefit the way of life for a great percentage of the deaf population. However, it is a surgical implant making it a permanent attachment, thus changing the way of life of an individual. The film mentioned that just because a person can hear does not mean they can talk and the deaf community takes pride in their sighing
