Narrative, language and hearing impairment is the doctoral thesis Patricia Salas, friend, teacher and companion in the electronic Logogenia, earned his title of Doctor of Letters. A most excellent research that chronicles the lives of several women who are deaf or hard of hearing.
I, Patricia gave me the honor of writing the foreword. And that is what I share with you:
A hearing impaired person is a person who hears little or nothing. That is the representation that makes society deafness. And it is wrong. The error appears to believe that a deaf or hard of hearing make up for this deficit, in all aspects: education, social, labor-only receiving sound waves of greater amplitude or volume. The deaf will speak loudly, and thus assumes that the problems caused by their lack of hearing, disappears. And when the volume is not enough, he speaks from the front to allow you to read lips, as if all human language may be discovered in mimicry of the other.
This ignorance of what the real problems of the deaf or hard of hearing, where problems arise integration, isolation, school failure, low level of knowledge, is what causes precisely in a sad vicious circle all these conflicts.
is here, then where the doctoral thesis Patricia Salas, "Narrative, language and education approach to a case study of educational integration from hearing impairment" is to bring answers.
Deafness and hearing loss, "says Salas-is much more than a hearing problem. It is a linguistic problem. The deaf or hard of hearing does not acquire their language as do the listeners, and therefore outside the language grows.
Language not only allows us to say things. It also serves to decode the written text. That's why so many people who are deaf or hard of hearing have no language skills.
"We exist through language," wrote Chambers. "Building Social reality is linguistic in nature. " What happens then to whom, to have a hearing impairment, are unable to use language as a cognitive tool? And the ones that do, how they do it? "These exceptions, great minds, people who have received the right incentives? What a terrible paradox
! Access to written culture, we need not hear. The written text has a wonderful autonomy and independence, which is enough for us to enter the world. To know who we are. To find the answers or the questions multiply.
In his doctoral thesis, Patricia Salas, explores these issues in depth but goes further. Does not seek the specialist, not a scientist or educator for that since its formal perspective, tell us how is the life of the deaf or hard of hearing and, in particular how to achieve integration in the educational system. Chambers is making closer to people with deafness or hearing loss and give them a voice. It is they who tell us how they studied and learned. How to offset its deficit. What small and large tricks they used to know what was said in the classroom when not listening. Made huge efforts to be on par with their hearing peers. Alternative paths they took to reach the goal.
And why? What serves to take some cases if we want to refer to all persons who are deaf or hard of hearing? Because
biographies and autobiographies is where the key to the conflict. Because when we know that one could, that someone else did, someone struggled, joint strength is that we do and we understand that you can. Because, says Salas, "life experience produces knowledge."
For those who narrates, put into words the story itself, serves as the construction of identity. For those who read, recognize themselves in the other is therapeutic, is what you need to know that you are not alone.
Patricia Salas met recently, but however came looking for several years. Navigating without a compass
the net, he found his biography. Patricia Salas's story as told by herself. For the first time someone said what I meant. I had the same thing happened to me, and used the words I needed to tell my own story. Salas was narrated and I talked. The strength of his biography led me to rethink my life. For I, like her, I am hard of hearing. As she spent from small to read everything with passion, and as she set about shaping the language, through journalism and literature. In the written text found my freedom. I got rid of the shackles of sound. But Patricia Salas made
something I could not or did not know (and now I learn of your hand), was devoted to understanding the needs of people with hearing impairments, and possible solutions. From the stories of life, Chambers found a way to create pathways. Gave the biography a force that pushes the boundaries of who counts and mature, is recreated, it carries on. The purest act of giving and receiving. Achieving
then through biographies, studying what happens to an entire group of people, what unites and what differentiates them from others and among themselves, what is your problem and what rehabilitative alternatives, is an achievement that only someone who has lived what counts can achieve. I say this with his words: "Count from what is seen is not the same as counting from the living." Veronica
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