Deaf Like Me by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley

Have you ever felt like there was nothing that you can do for your child? In this book, Deaf Like Me, by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley, I can see the journey that Lynn’s parents took to get her help. (Spradley Spradley, 1978). This book was an excellent read. I really liked the way that they described the ways they tried to help Lynn to understand the world around her. The book, is a great asset for any family that might be unexpectedly put into a situation that they know nothing about such as a deaf child. The author Thomas S. Spadley is Lynn’s father. He is the one that was with them all the time and saw all that his wife Louise tried for their daughter to understand them. The greatest qualification for him to write†¦show more content†¦Overall, his perspective helped to make the book a little more interesting in that he was not all the time there. Lynn’s deafness was found through a series of many events. These events consisted of seein g many doctors to see if she could hear or not. Lynn was taken to a doctor to make sure that her ears where fully developed, this doctor said that she was fine. Lynn was also taken to a speech therapist that told them that she could learn and that all she needed was to be talked too. Just talking to her would do it all and that one day she would be able to talk to them. This information gave them some hope that she would be able to communicate someday. They also tried the John Tracy course to help her better learn to lip read to be able to talk to them. This had over a thousand classes to it and things for the family to do. Which they tried intensely with Lynn and did the games and things that came with it with her on a daily basis. (79). Some of the reasons that they thought Lynn could hear where: that when she was six months old, Lynn, had started to make noises and babble (27).No baby could do that except if they hear the noises around them. Then when she was about two she was taken to get a hearing test done. The Audiologist told them,† That she could hear at 90 decimals at her hearing test†. The Audiologist did not say that she was completely deaf, so there was hope (45). This is when they started other things to help Lynn. They got in touch with people aroundShow MoreRelatedDeaf Like Me by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley1606 Words   |  7 Pages Have you ever felt like there was nothing that you can do for your child? In the book, Deaf Like Me, by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley, I can the journey that Lynn’s parents had to take to get her help. This book was excellent I really liked the way that they described the ways that they tried to help Lynn to understand the world around her. In this book, I also saw how a mother and father will do anything for their child so that they can understand all that is around them. This book,Read MoreEssay on Deaf Like Me1324 Words   |  6 PagesClayton 4/15/ 2010 ASL Research Paper Deaf Like Me By Thomas S. Spradley James P. Spradly Epilogue By Lynn Spradley Deaf Like Me is a story compiled together by Thomas and James Spradley. It is a compelling story about two hearing+ parents struggling to cope with their daughters overwhelming deafness. This powerful story expresses with simplicity the love, hope, and anxieties of all hearing parents of deaf children. In the epilogue, Lynn Spradley, herself, now a teenager thinks back about Deaf Like Me by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley Have you ever felt like there was nothing that you can do for your child? In the book, Deaf Like Me, by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley, I can the journey that Lynn’s parents had to take to get her help. This book was excellent I really liked the way that they described the ways that they tried to help Lynn to understand the world around her. In this book, I also saw how a mother and father will do anything for their child so that they can understand all that is around them. This book, is also a great asset to any family that might be unexpectedly thrown into a situation that they do not expect such as a deaf child. The author Thomas S. Spadley is Lynn’s father. He is the one that was with them all the time and saw all that his†¦show more content†¦In this school they wanted for all the children to be oral by the time that they got to kindergarten and be ready for regular academics. (148) this was there second time with professionals that had their ide as of what a deaf child should be able to do. Lynn started school with a teacher named Ms. Taylor that began to teach the children so that they could recognize what they needed to be successful later on in their schooling. Dr. Barrington, a psychologist, taught a class to the parents of deaf children on how to read to them so that they understand. (175) this is where the Spradleys’ learned that the more they read to Lynn the better she would understand them and be able to lip read what they were saying. Lynn also went to the Starr school that they wanted to keep as an Oral school, so she had to learn to speak. (207) When going to a PTA Meeting for the school, this is when Louise and Tom saw a deaf couple signing to each other. This is when they met with Bill and Kim that taught them that Lynn could learn to sign and that it would be a good thing for them to learn also. In the first week Lynn could sign thirteen words that she had already knew and just did not have anything to go along with the word. As the family learned more and more about Lynn and her deafness, the reader can see that they began to accept it. The changes all came slowly, the more that they learned about the disability that Lynn had. The reader can see that at first they did notShow MoreRelatedDeaf Like Me by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley1665 Words   |  7 PagesHave you ever felt like there was nothing that you can do for your child? In this book, Deaf Like Me, by Thomas S. Spradley and James P. Spradley, I can see the journey that Lynn’s parents took to get her help. (Spradley Spradley, 1978). This book was an excellent read. I really liked the way that they described the ways they tried to help Lynn to understand the world around her. The book, is a great asset for any family that might be unexpectedly put into a situation that they know nothingRead MoreEssay on Deaf Like Me1324 Words   |  6 PagesClayton 4/15/ 2010 ASL Research Paper Deaf Like Me By Thomas S. Spradley James P. Spradly Epilogue By Lynn Spradley Deaf Like Me is a story compiled together by Thomas and James Spradley. It is a compelling story about two hearing+ parents struggling to cope with their daughters overwhelming deafness. This powerful story expresses with simplicity the love, hope, and anxieties of all hearing parents of deaf children. In the epilogue, Lynn Spradley, herself, now a teenager thinks back about