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Just because you can not hear does not mean that you should stop you from living your dreams. There are people that when then they have a disability strive harder to live there life and reach for their dream. One example is man names Derrick Coleman. He is the starting Full Back for the Seattle Seahawks. Derrick has been hearing impaired since he was 6yrs old. This is just one example of not giving up and letting one thing hold you back.This article is about a young man named Aaron Golub who is completely blind in his right eye and suffers from restricted vision in his left. Golub will be playing collegiate football next fall at Tulane, but what he finds most frustrating about playing is not the long hours or hard work put into the game, but rather the attention his impaired vision gets instead of his performance. Golub began playing football when he was eleven years old; although there was some doubt whether or not playing a competitive sport would be a good idea, his parents and coaches allowed him to play anyway. After a couple years of playing, he began to love the sport and set a goal to eventually go on and play in college; however, he knew that with his current condition, there was only one position this could be attained. Golub transitioned to becoming a long-snapper where he prospered and is currently rated the nineteenth-best long snapper in the country. I think this article illustrated a reoccurring theme throughout the course; if you set your mind on accomplishing something, you can achieve it. Over the past eight weeks, we have heard countless stories from different families where at least one family member was suffering from a disability, but is seems like the one point to take away from all these is not to focus on the disability itself, but rather focus on overcoming the obstacles that may come along with it, which is exactly what Aaron Golub did.
Some people have such a significant lost in hearing that even a hearing aid device won't help them. Those people have gotten positive results from the cochlear implant. According to the textbook a cochlear implant is a tiny group of electrical cells that collect and send signals from the outer ear to the nerves of the brain. Its put in the inner ear and it is attached to a receiver that is implanted under the skin behind your ear at the base of the skull. World wide children and adults have received cochlear implant and without a doubt it has definitely helped and improved peoples ability to hear. Research shows that cochlear implants users perform significantly better on a variety of tasks than most hearing aid users that have a similar degree of hearing loss. The patient in this video is someone that has had a cochlear implant. He explains how his hearing was before he had the implant done (For Example when he was a kid he said that when his parents called him or someone was talking to him his ears would vibrate) and he also talks about how much it helped and improved his hearing loss after the surgery.
By: Mackenzie Smith In 1962 Rick Hoyt was born, and as a result of oxygen deprivation, he was diagnosed as a spastic quadriplegic with cerebral palsy. In the spring of 1977 Rick told his dad Dick that he wanted to participate in a 5 mile run to benefit for a Lacrosse player that had been paralyzed in a car accident. "Dad, when I'm running, it feels like I'm not handicapped." This was the beginning of thousands of races, marathons and triathlons the two would commit to. The greatest trek the two conquered was their bike/run across the US. A total of 3,735 miles in 45 days. In a triathlon, Dick will pull Rick in a boat with a bungee cord attached to a vest around his waist and to the front of the boat for the swimming stage. For the biking stage, Rick will ride a special two-seater bicycle, and then Dick will push Rick in his custom made running chair (for the running stage). Rick was once asked, if he could give his father one thing, what would it be? Rick responded, “The thing I’d most like is for my dad to sit in the chair and I would push him for once.” If this doesn't touch your heart I don't know what could. We have talked a lot in this class about the impact on families when it comes to having a child with a disability. The love that Dick has for his son Rick is exactly what any parents should want to emulate. Their motto is "you can" and they are showing that anything is possible when it comes to unconditional love. The following clip is shows a five-year-old boy with Autism. The text quotes, “Autism spectrum disorders show characteristic deficits in communication and social skills, as well as restrictive behaviors and interests, each person is unique” (324). The young boy in the clip below behaves very similar to the five-year-old boy that I work with at my service-learning site. Both of the boys have eye-to-eye gaze and can hear what you are saying to them, but the focus is not always there. The young boy in the clip does not have much facial expression. The description of the boy in the clip and of the boy I work with at my service-learning site show parallelism with the quote on page 333 of the text. It states “The symptoms in the social interaction category are marked impairment in the use of multiple nonverbal behaviors, such as eye-to-eye gaze, facial expression, body postures and gestures” (333). The body gestures and postures of the boy in clip and almost identical to the young boy I work with at the service-learning site. I find it very compelling to recognize the characteristics that are listed in the text I have been able to experience them at my service-learning site. Also I find it fascinating that both the boy in the clip acts so similar to the boy I worked with all summer. The similarities are unbelievable between the two. |