Hello… how are u all? I wanted to tell you about my volunteer work i do. every mondays, I go to the nursing home for elderly people. I usually visit with one lady there and play cards with her and color pictures with her and try talk with her, sure it is hard to try talk to her but i just do my best. I am sure they enjoy my visit there with them. Every Thursday, I volunteer at the library from 9am to 1pm. I help the library youth room lady with her story time for kids age 2 to 5. I help set up tables for kids to do their crafts after the storytime. I also show some signs to the kids related to the theme of the storytime. I also shelf books when i am not helping with storytime. I really enjoy volunteering at the library… My hobbies are, i like to go for walk, take care of my dog, and making vlogs…
Hello all… I would like to talk about my deafness… I was born Deaf, my left ear is totally deaf, my right ear has very little hearing left. I do wear my hearing aid in my right ear. Hearing aid do help me quite well… My whole family is hearing so that makes me only one deaf in my family. I am fine with it but I do get lonely sometimes cuz of communication barriers. My mom and few people like my grandma know some sign. I learned to sign when I was one years old from a teacher who would come to my house to help me practice sign.
I was mainstream in public school until I was in 7th grade. Then I went to a deaf school starting in 8th grade, at Nebraska school for the deaf until 9th grade. Then I moved to Iowa school for the deaf, also I repeated 9th grade. Nebraska
school for the deaf closed in 1998 so a lot of NSD students had to move to ISD. Nsd closed due to low number of students and no budget.
Luckily I was also able to grow up with a deaf family part time, They are my friends and it helped me learn about deaf culture and encouraged me to keep up with my signing skills. I am thankful that I had a “second” family who was deaf, it sure helped me a lot.
I enjoy my deafness because I can basically control how much I want to hear. Like if I wanted to hear something, I would put on my hearing aid, if I choose to be deaf then I simply take off my hearing aid. So you can share ur experience growing up being deaf if you would like… Tell me your pros and cons in being deaf…
