05.10.01 - Meeting the First Deaf Author
55th clip. Title: Meeting the First Deaf Author. 5:35 minutes long. Total: 5:04:37 hours.
A couple of milestones here. This clip denotes that this ongoing mythology had passed the 5 hours length (with about 7! more to go). And the first post with a SIGNED deaf history commentary here. Thanks to my dear friend, Tayler, due to the changes in the WordPress theme set up here, my deaf history videos finally can be embedded. And a slight change in the website sidebars, you might notice here. I am contemplating in reposting all the 54 previous video clips to include either/or myth and deaf history commentaries. Will see if I ever get around to do that considering that I have higher priorites such as my day job, my young daughters, and maintaining other long dormant websites or blogs such as 1001 Books in ASL and Spirituality of Being Deaf. But I am now enthusiastic and encouraged to move on slightly quicker in trying to post BOTH the myth clip and myth/deaf history commentaries.
Enjoy watching how the Deaf Child met a “first” deaf author. Click away . . .
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Myth Commentary: As in receiving the first book, the Deaf Child meets an deaf author who inspires her/him to do greater things. As in millions of stories (spoken, signed, and published) all over the world, meeting role models do inspire characters to do similar deeds. Children of warriors dream of becoming even better warriors. And so on.
Deaf History Commentary: A first embedded video on deaf history from one of my YouTube channels.
The deaf author as portrayed the 05.10 clip is actually a real person, Pierre Desloges. While there is no historical information that Desloges have visited the Rue St. Jacuqes deaf school in Paris, Desloges actually did meet deaf people in Paris. Click on the below links for more information on Desloges.
Wikipedia entry on Pierre Desloges
Read the full and translated Desloges book in Harlan Lane’s book
An entry at Project MUSE where Desloges was discussed in an research article
A list of books discussing Desloges from Google Book Search
Deaf Studies Commentary: The conjuncted deaf studies topic of chapter five is sociology of the deaf community. Someday in the future, once the vision of using this mythology in K-12 and university courses to discuss deaf studies, deaf history, or any other related topics is realized, then discussing the dynamics of deaf communities, among other facets, can take place here.
Deafhood Questions: Have you ever met anyone deaf that inspired you to do something greater than yourself?
True stories can be included here on how meeting deaf role models have critically impacted on the deafhood development of many deaf people.
Clip Quote: “Deaf Role Models are Critical”
Thanks for including that great link, “Read the full and translated Desloges book in Harlan Lane’s book”!
I was amazed at the contemporary tone of that old book in 1779. What Desloges wrote can still be said today, and he said it in a fine, occasionally sarcastic and other times, in a conciliatory tone.
I relished it especially when he said of his opponent, “the abbé Deschamps readily lends himself to refutation, for as we have already seen many times, all we have to do to set him in opposition to himself.” He points out the several occasions that Deschamps contradicts himself in fervently supporting oralism.
How sad that this controversy still goes on 230 years later. Even at this early date, and even when both Deschamps and Desloges have been politely acknowledging the merits of both oralism and sign languages, the controversy still rages on and still causes casualties in the Deaf community.
Comment by Dianrez | October 15, 2008