Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Theories and goals of education don’t matter a whit if you don’t consider your students to be human beings

The disk entitled, A Loss for spoken language, by Lou Ann Walker, tells the grand bilgewater of how a child deals with the disabilities of her p arnts (Walker 1987).The wizard of the tale, Lou Ann Walker, narrates her experiences of how she acted as the ears and was the voice for her deaf parents. piece the family setting was warm, loving and typical of just about happy families, the challenges that Lou Ann Walker and her parents had to face exterior the house constantly challenged their character (Walker 1987).The tale revolves around the experiences of Lou Ann Walker who was born in the American Midwest in 1952 and recounts the experiences she has as one of the three daughters who were cap fit of consultation of Gale and Doris Jean Walker who were both deafen as infants due to illnesses.The inspiring tale of how she served as the medium for interactions for her parents with the outside world. Id seen plenty of families where there was more(prenominal) communication and l ess love, (Walker 1987) as the designer declares when she recalls how warm it was in their home scorn the hearing disabilities of her parents.The book is not above the frustrations that community have to deal with when they are outcast and misunderstood and Lou Ann Walker is able to show this through the lighthearted news report of just how crude and condescending the reactions of people were to the plight of her parents.The manner of education that her parents got, era seemingly different for those who are unaware of the circumstances of the hearing impaired, showed just how challenging yet heartwarming it was. The beauty is in the narration of the tale as it seeks to insert itself in the hearts of its readers and finds a behavior to bring the comfort and warmth of the causalitys own family to the reader.ReferencesWalker, Lou Ann (1987) Loss for Words The Story of Deafness in a Family Harper Perennial ISBN 0060914254

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