Sound and Fury: 6 Years Later (accessible preview with description)

[amindbody]

Sound and Fury was a great documentary.

[ericas46]

@noulmiit: thanks. No I am not a Coda, just educated. I do not hold Audist views.

[ericas46]

...never in your care. My hope would be that every Deaf child gets ASL

From day one and exposed to Deaf adults and Deaf culture immediately. That is their only hope to become successful, independent, confident adults.

[noulmiit]

@ericas46

Waouw, that was powerful! :)

Thank you! You said all I wanted to say, and better!

Are u a CODA?

[ericas46]

...Deaf culture through Deaf schools, etc. are exceedingly better in reading and writing English and are linguistically superior in both languages: ASL and English. They are truly bilingual and are socially appropriate, and become analytical thinking adults, equal to hearing peers. Your audist views are despicable and archaic. You view deafness as something missing, yet those who were born Deaf never heard, so they aren't "missing" what they never had. I, too pray a Deaf child is never in your

[ericas46]

...their Deaf child so desperately needs from 0-5 to acquire a native fluency in ANY language. CI's do not provide spoken language naturally and therefore denying ASL to a Deaf child is neglect at best and child abuse at worst. CI or not, ASL is not only necessary but essential for the child's emotional, social, and cognitive development. Studies have shown that Deaf children who have Deaf parents or are from 5% of the hearing parents who sign to them from day one and expose them to Deaf cultur

[ericas46]

@goodgirlkay, CI's are not a cure for deafness! How dare hearing parents force a natural, God-created Deaf child to be "fixed" with a hunk of metal in their head and make the child do all the work of years and years of auditory training and speech training in the hopes that the 50/50 chance that child may function as a "hearing" person. And all this because the 90% of hearing parents with Deaf children are too lazy to do the work of learning the very beautiful sign language that their Deaf chil

[UNLswag]

Grandma's a whack job!

[r0thfarb]

There isn't a single moment that takes place six years after the original movie.

[pookymuffin101]

@r0thfarb click the link. That was the beggining of the 6 years later. they showed osme of the old fotage for like 3/4 min, and the rest is all about there life now, and school.

[Darthreloy]

What part of 6 years later did you show???

[demurebrownsugar]

Deaf people are functional human beings.Your condescending pity and assumption that hearing is better than accepting how a Deaf child was divinely designed by God is unfortunate.

[demurebrownsugar]

Deaf people are functional human beings.

Your condescending pity and assumption that hearing is better than accepting how a Deaf child was divinely designed by God is unfortunate.

[reeceboi123]

my grandson just got his,he only 2,and he just won,t keep them on it is so hard going

[Aluapay]

The whole family except for the dad recieved the implants.

[1rach5]

*sigh* why do us (hearing people) feel like you HAVE to hear EVERYTHING.....I HATE CI's. The father is right, CI's make deaf people like robots.....I don't like the grandma >__>

[AsuraAayleisha]

@1rach5 i wouldn't want you calling us Robots for matter of fact. It pisses me off see commenters calling us Cochlear Implants - ROBOTS!. we are not control by a remote as a fact Robot with hand and feet all that movement. But You cant really  blame for some hearing parents least i wish i had a deaf parents that could stand up for me not to have chochlear implant when i was 9 years old. But due to that I had hearing family made that decision when i didnt know nothing about CI then!

[goodgirlkay]

@1rach5 I pray to God that a deaf child never ends up in your custody...It is immoral, not to use Science to make the lives of disabled children better. Please do not have a deaf child! I will put you on my prayer list and pray every night that God in his wisdom, doesn't place a deaf child in your care.

[rbsadler]

@goodgirlkay Make them "better"? Are they not good enough just the way they are? Does someone doing something in a different way somehow make them broken? Do you think we need to "fix" people who are differently abled? I think you have a seriously flawed outlook on people who are differently abled. Notice I said DIFFERENTLY abled. They're just the same as everyone else, they just do things a little differently than most. They don't need someone to come save them or fix them.

[goodgirlkay]

@rbsadler You can use all the pc terms you want, but the basic reality is that deaf people cannot hear sound, that is by definition a disability. They cannot hear the sound of a fire alarm, they cannot hear the sound of a screeching car, or a crying baby. I don't mean to be mean, but they are not physically equal to hearing persons. They are at a disadvantage. I think it is completely immoral, bordering on evil, to deny a child the ability to hear, so that you can pat yourself on the back.

[rbsadler]

@goodgirlkay They are not however mentally or emotionally any less than everyone else. They are perfectly able to decide for themselves whether or not this is what's best for them. Believe it or not, CI's are major surgery with risks and is considered an elective surgery. I feel it's immoral to force a child to go through a serious elective surgery without their input even though they can function just fine without their hearing.

[noulmiit]

@goodgirlkay

I assume you don't know anything about deaf people..

You think they can't live as good/easily than us because "they can't hear a fire alarm, screeching car, crying baby"?

Inform you first, then talk because maybe they are deaf but there's still a lot of things they can "hear", feel, and see (and better than hearing people).

I have been raised by deaf parents and I assure I NEVER have been in danger because of that

They brought me very much from their culture, making who I am today.

[asldeaffriend]

YES! DEAF FAMILY RIGHT!.... .DEAF FMAILY BE YOURSLEF.... stay on your graound......im HOH  /ASL ..take llok at video...(FOR All Hearing people WHO have Cochlear Implant Proble)

[Sazzydeafgurl]

When the grandma mentioned how she could talk to Heather while her back is turned, and if she was still deaf, it would have taken a lot longer, I could tell Heather was hurted by that. Who want to feel like they are burden to the hearing society. And why everyone is talking around the lunch table instead of signing after promising they would still be part of of the deaf community. Don't they realized they left their father behind. The grandma is sooo audist-ly pushy.