03.11.01 - Becoming Feral
30th and last clip of the third chapter. Title: Becoming Feral. 03:25 minutes long. Total: 2:49:16 hours.
Posted on the day we honor our fallen human being we chose to symbolize our still ongoing fight for equal rights, first for the blacks but now for all, MLK, Jr. Click into this vidclip to discover the dark feral side of the deaf (and human) experience the Deaf Child underwent. Posted in blessed memory of those deaf people who almost (maybe some did) went feral in their lives on earth.
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Deafhood questions: (for deaf person) Were you once abandoned in the “forest” or in anywhere just because you were deaf? Were you abandoned by your birth parents and gave you up for adoption just because they found out that you were deaf?
Deaf Studies commentaries: The feral element in deaf history is interesting to discuss and ponder upon. Probably Harlan Lane was the person who was the first to spotlight on feral children and deafness. He was instrumental in giving attention to feral children through his work on the wild child of Aveyron and of Burundi. See bibliography below for more references. It appears to me that most documented cases of feral children who lived in the wild were not deaf. Harlan did mention that to me in my interview with him years back. The problems posed by feral children such as no language, lack of communication within society, isolation from other people bear relevancy to the “problems” deaf people pose to the hearing society. Click here to go to unique website on feral children.
Bibliography
ITARD, J. (1932). The Wild Boy of Aveyron. G. Humphrey, ed. and trans. Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice-Hal
CURTISS, S. (1977). Genie: A Psycholinguistic Story of a Modern `Wild Child’. New York: Academic Press
Lane, Harlan. (1976). The Wild Boy of Aveyron. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Lane. H. (1979) The Wild Boy of Burundi: Psychological Catastrophes of Childhood. New York:Random House.
RYMER, R. (1993). Genie: An Abused Child’s Flight From Silence. New York: Harper Collins
http://www.feralchildren.com/
Thanks for sharing.
Comment by Deaf dating | January 21, 2008
Hello my teacher, I haven’t been able to totally view your continuing story til now; computer glitch. The deaf child seems to have taken a step back, but strength comes with the step. Thank you, again.
Comment by Jeanne Walker | January 27, 2008