I found this on YouTube, an Oscar winning short film, and really recommend it. It's beautiful, moving and very well done. A diamond of a work. About a deaf child in a hearing family and the young woman who works with her. No, it doesn't have a happy ending. But it's still hopeful.
I think the theme is something hearing people in hearing families might identify with.
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DeleteMy niece is a deaf child in a hearing family. Another interesting story and not with a good ending.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear it hasn't gone well. You really need parents to fight for the child, and all parents don't have what it takes.
DeleteI grew up with a deaf woman who was my grandfather’s housekeeper. I knew many in the deaf community. One family had two deaf parents and two hearing children. All worked out well.
ReplyDeleteMy friend lost her hearing due to measles as a small child. She was the only deaf one in her family. Eventually she worked at a boarding school for the deaf as a house mother. She lived into her nineties and had a good life.
On my blog, you asked about the lobster posts on the wharf and the size of the fishing shacks. Fishers store the pots in their shacks. Small shacks have lots of overflow of pots onto the wharf. At French River, in spite of the much larger shacks, pots overflow onto the wharf as well.
Your point is that they were accepted as deaf and had a community. This film is about a different situation -- the predicament of a child whose deafness is not acknowledged nor supported, despite her intelligence. Sadly, this kind of denial happens in families who can't accept that their child needs specialized teaching. I've seen it in the autistic world, too.
DeleteThanks for the expo about the lobster pots!
There's a family that live not too far from here and the entire family is deaf. I don't remember how many kids they had but I know it's at least three. They're farmers and had a roadside stand selling veggies throughout the summer. The entire community knew they were deaf and it didn't seem to be a problem to communicate.
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