Deaf Chinese son has been chained and locked up in a stone house for decade by his own mother.
DENGFENG, China -- 'I had no choice': Mum admits locking up Deaf son for decade as police discover man in chains, mum Yue Rong said her son Wang Zhiqiang, now 41, was born unable to hear or speak and as the years went on, his mental disorders got worse.
Wang Zhiqiang, now 41, was born unable to hear or speak, his mum Yue Rong, 77, revealed.
But as a child he still showed signs of intellect, so his family sent him to a special needs boarding school.
Only his time there proved to be a traumatic experience after he was severely bullied.
As a result Wang Zhiqiang, who lives in Xuanhua in Dengfeng City in Henan, China, developed psychological issues.
And as his poverty-stricken family could not afford to seek help and treatment Zhiqiang's mental disorders got worse.
His mother said: "He wasn't able to go to school any more, and his condition worsened while staying at home.
"It reached a point where he was attacking other villagers."
Yue explained when her husband passed away she found it difficult to cope which is why she resorted to chaining up her son.
She added: "When his father was still alive, he was able to take care of him, but when his dad passed away 12 years ago, I couldn't handle him on my own."
"I had no choice but to chain him up and lock him in the room. It's been more than 10 years."
Zhiqiang's sister, Wang Shufen, cries every time she sees her brother in the animal-like state.
Footage of their most recent meeting shows her sobbing as she inspects the marks on her brother's arms made by the wrought-iron shackles.
Now in her 50s, Shufen said: "I wish it were me chained up and that my brother were free instead.
"You never saw the times, while he was still lucid, when he begged my family to let him out."
Exclusive Interview: Meet Lucia and Jon Rogerson, parents of three-year-old Heath, who is Deaf from California.
FREMONT, California -- The film project by Language Equality and Acquisition for Deaf Kids #LEADK and partnership with the Nyle DiMarco Foundation. This is their story with english subtitles.
But this family boldly and bravely chose American Sign Language and English as the languages of their homes.
Credits:
LEAD-K Film Project Director: Julie Rems-Smario, LEAD-K Public Relations
Producer: Sheri Ann Farinha, LEAD-K Campaign Director
Co-Funders: LEAD-K and Nyle DiMarco Foundation
Film Director: Jules Dameron
Editor: Jules Dameron
Sounds: ShakahJamal
Interpreter: Leah Bartell
Family: Heath, Presley, Lucia, and Jon Rogerson
The CSD has made a commitment to be a Deaf centered environment in which the design of learning and the language of instruction are consistent with a Bilingual-Bicultural approach to educating Deaf children.
The school values itself as a multi-cultural community of varied ethnic backgrounds through which people are able to learn and work together to promote the academic, linguistic, vocational, cultural, social, emotional and physical development of Deaf children. The involvement of parents, students, staff, the Deaf community, the business community and the community at large is regarded as essential to the mission of the school.
A safe, academic, Deaf-centered culture is nurtured at CSD. Dedication to students is the hallmark of CSD staff. Visit CSD website, http://csdeagles.com
Deaf News: With cochlear implants, people can turn the noise around them on and off at will.
My son travels between silence and sound each day. He received his first cochlear implant when he was a year old. Now in middle school, he’s spent almost his whole life with the ability to turn off the world’s noise at will. In the morning, he attaches the external magnets of his cochlear implants to each side of his head, where they transmit sound from the microphones and speech processors worn over his ears. The electrode arrays in each of his cochleae then stimulate the auditory nerve, and zap, he “hears.”
With his implant, he’s become part of a new generation of profoundly Deaf kids who are assimilated into the mainstream hearing world. In 1989, the Food and Drug Administration approved cochlear implants for children aged 2 years or older; in 2000, the agency green-lit implants for kids as young as 12 months. In the wake of those approvals, thousands of parents like me with no connection to Deaf culture or knowledge of American Sign Language have opted to have their children receive implants. (More than 90 percent of congenitally Deaf babies are born to typical-hearing parents.)
But our decision also placed our son in between two worlds: He is not a member of Deaf signing culture, but neither is he fully part of the hearing community. Instead, he lives somewhere in the middle, joining the 48 million Americans who are challenged with some level of hearing loss.
“Sometimes my brain accounts for the fact that I don’t hear,” he says. “Like if I stomp my foot with my implants off, then my brain kind of makes a sound for it.” He is coming to recognize himself as a “Hearing/Deaf” person an identity that has shaped his sense of social inclusion in unique ways. When his cochlear implants are off, he says, he experiences the world through a kind of “peaceful darkness.” (At times, the decision to turn it on and off is a strategic one: “It is kind of cool to take them off when someone is being annoying to me.”)
According to the FDA, approximately 88,000 people in the U.S. had received cochlear implants as of 2012, including around 38,000 children. The majority of these children attend schools alongside typical-hearing peers, which can be mentally and emotionally taxing as they work to keep up with the sounds around them.
Sometimes words just get all mixed up and you just can’t understand the person. “It’s not like you put the implants on and you can hear just like a normal person,” he reminds me. “Sometimes words just get all mixed up and you just can’t understand the person.” Indeed, experts in field of auditory-verbal therapy stress that implant-wearers must be “hearing athletes” in order to thrive in the cacophonous world. Listening is not a passive endeavor, and pressure to keep up can be tiring.
In recent years, advancements in hearing technology have made it a little bit easier. My son now has the Naida CI Q90, a model from the California-based implant manufacturer Advanced Bionics. The implant, recently approved by the FDA, contains software that more effectively minimizes echo, wind, and reverberation sounds. It has Bluetooth capability, meaning that music, movies, and phone calls can be sent wirelessly into his device. It’s also capable of zooming in on a single voice in a noisy environment.
The implant has gone a long way towards helping him integrate more seamlessly into the everyday hearing world. At school, for example, the teacher's voice is transmitted to our son’s receivers via an FM system above all other sound, and a portable pen-shaped microphone on his school desk picks up small group conversations.
But for a tween, naturally, the biggest concern it is all about fitting in. My son’s hair is now deliberately long enough to cover his hearing devices. When asked how he enjoys music, he says that he likes the feeling of hearing what his friends are listening to.
“Maybe I’m not even hearing the same things as them because I have no idea how people hear,” he says, “but I have the feeling I’m really close to it.” SOURCE.
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Ways and How sharing the video to educate hearing parents with Deaf babies and toddlers - For parents with normal hearing, communicating with a Deaf child can be a challenge. Babies normally learn their language by listening to their caregiver’s speech and recreating the sounds. Obviously, limitations in hearing ability prevent Deaf babies from acquiring language skills through this method. Here’s how to teach a Deaf baby sign language.
This session was about encouraging families and whānau to think more critically about how they can include their children in their family life and to be mindful of the fact that their child is quite different and they may need to adjust themselves to facilitate that inclusion.
A Deaf Child in the Family - Full Documentary with Captions.
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Deaf News: Implants, signing let Deaf kids be bilingual: Research experts.
Parents of Deaf children face a critical responsibility to learn and use sign language, according to a majority of hearing experts quoted in the journal Pediatrics, although the question of whether or not to sign has grown increasingly controversial.
Ten thousand infants are born yearly in the U.S. with sensorineural deafness, and data suggest that half receive cochlear implants, small devices that help provide a sense of sound to profoundly Deaf individuals.
While some specialists advise that all Deaf children, with or without cochlear implants, learn sign language, others fear that learning sign language will interfere with the demanding rehabilitation needed to maximize the cochlear device. Still others worry that asking parents to learn a new language quickly is too burdensome.
In an “Ethics Rounds” feature in Pediatrics, nine experts from hearing and language-associated fields share their perspectives and conclude, “The benefits of learning sign language clearly outweigh the risks. For parents and families who are willing and able, this approach seems clearly preferable to an approach that focuses solely on oral communication," in which the child would depend only on the cochlear device or other auditory-verbal approaches.
John Lantos, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, writes in the journal, “The more languages they learn, the better these children will be able to communicate.”
Lantos told Reuters Health that too many children who receive cochlear implants fail to achieve full functionality in the hearing world. “If the idea is to give kids the most potential to communicate in the most ways that they can, it seems like learning both is the best approach.”
Linguist Donna Jo Napoli contributed one of the most urgent arguments for full adoption of sign language. “Children should be surrounded by sign language as much as possible as soon as the audiological status is determined," she told Reuters Health. "If the child gets a cochlear implant and does well with it, fantastic. Then the child is bi-lingual...Read The Full Story.
A hearing mother kills her two Deaf children, commits suicide in India.
UTTAR PRADESH -- Unable to witness the plight of her two Deaf children, a 30-year-old woman allegedly killed them before committing suicide in Hamirpur district.
According to the sources, the woman was upset over the disabilities of the children. Husband of the woman works in Shimla while she was living with the minor children in Jharrajputan village of the district, police said.
Last night, she allegedly fed Sulphas tablets to the two children and later consumed it herself, police said. After consuming the poisonous tablet she called up her husband to inform about it, police said.
The youngest child, a girl, died on the spot while the woman and the son succumbed in a hospital later, police said.
"I am fed with my life and can not bear the stress anymore" these were the words wrote by Vandana Sharma before she hung herself to ceiling fan of her house. On Wednesday when neighbors discovered foul smell they got suspicious after which the door of the house was made to open.
Vandna Sharma's body was found hanging with ceiling fan while dead three kids were in bedroom. She killed them by smothering pillow. Two were girls and a son was two and half years old who was Deaf by birth. Her Husband is posted in Ratnagiri and stays there most of the time. Vandana Sharma could not bear the the stress and ended up her and three innocent kids lives.
Educating hearing parents with Deaf children in American Sign Language.
A Deaf vlogger, Keri tell you the story about the mostly hearing parents doesn't know how to deal with babies with hearing loss and how the AG Bell Assocation, Cochlear Implant companies, Audiologists and Doctors often hyocrites and manipulations to the hearing parent against the Deaf children's will, which is a violation of human rights.
Also and Keri suggest you to be positive words how to deal with hearing parent's children who is Deaf to wearing CI as a patient. Send them the information such as to learn in sign language (ASL) and resources from the Deaf community to let educating them, rather than the wrong pictures about Deaf community.
Based on a true story: Interview with hearing parents of a Deaf son.
Interview with hearing parents of a Deaf son, What information did the audiologist give you? Special Thanks to Reader's family for allowing us to film interviews.
Many thanks to Michael Davis, Michael MacAulay, Kristen Weiner, Tara Holcomb, and David O Reynolds for being part of this project. Oppose cochlear implant!
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