"Delve into the imagination of a deaf girl
who invents sounds to fill her silent world."
"Imagine what the world might sound like if you
were a deaf child with a vivid imagination?
How might you fill the silence? Perhaps you might
imagine that the sun rumbles, that birds croak like
frogs or that the wind sings.
This short film by RNID explores the imagined
sounds of a silent world and makes you appreciate
the value of hearing."
Not much I can add to that, really...
When I watched the video before adding it to this post,
I thought I was watching a surrealist short movie...
It sure got my attention and made me think.
It's incredible how human beings can still find
ways of coping with difficult situations...
Coping with silence by imagining sounds?
Wow! I would not have thought of that one.
But, then again, I'm not faced with that situation,
so, perhaps that's why...
Definitely worth watching...
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The video clip is an ad for
The Royal National
Institute for Deaf People.
Its campaigns aim to change the lives of deaf
and hard of hearing people across the UK.
On the charity's website, it says that
they want to campaign for issues faced by deaf
and hard of hearing people, provide services
to individuals and organisations and carry out
vital research into deafness and hearing loss.
They've got my full support now! :-)
There is a transcript for this video on the
RNID's website... so if you are (or know
someone who is) hard of hearing click
on here to read/get it.
Enjoy...
Loup Dargent
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Amazing!! makes you relise how lucky we really are.
It sure does...
Thanks Danny for your visit and comment :-)
I should let you know that the RNID advert is patronising and factually incorrect.
I speak with personal experience as I am Deaf, and the RNId is one of the most hated organisation but the people it claims to represent.
The advert implies that hearing aids are a wonderful cure!!! If that is a the case why is the average reading age still 8 1/2, when countries like Sweden are achieving normal reading ages.
It also implies that children are as risk of running over unless they wear hearing aids, I have not worn a hearing aid since I left school as the hearing aids gave me a lot of pain, through ear infections migraines, but if I told anybody they would reply don't be silly.
To me hearing aids represent instruments of torcher and I have suffered because of incorrect advice from the RNId.
The RNId represents the old fashioned medical model where the disability is the individuals problem. The modern approach is the social model which means it is societies problem.
Believe or not many deaf people wonder how hearing people can cope with all that noise, the droning of the cars and so on.
There is no doubt that hearing aids do benefit some people, but they are not and never have been a miracle cure and create more barriers.
The true meaning of RNId is
Really
Not
Interested in
Deaf
They are a business that will do anything to make money, and they will make it any way they can, including using images of sympathy. Deaf people do not need sympathy, they want jobs, access, access to a better education, something which RNId have failed to have achieved, I recommend you find out how many senior managers are Deaf in the RNId.
This is not a personal attack at this blog but an attempt to provide view from people who count, the people who RNId claim to represent and fail.
However I should mention that some people do benefit from hearing aids, but they are usually older people who have had experience of sound.
Many Thanks for taking an interest in the Deaf community
Thanks Dafydd for your input :-)
As a deaf person, I am upset by RNID tactics. This campaign is an argumentum ad misericordiam or an appeal to pity. It is trying to make out that deafness is always a terrible tragedy in order to push decent people into giving RNID money.
The real tragedy for deaf people is lack of access and being unemployed or stuck in low paid jobs. These are things that RNID have failed to alleviate.
The RNID does not have any deaf people in it’s entire senior management team. In 2007, 5 employees were on £70,001 to £80,000, 1 was on £80,001 to £90,000 and 1 was on £100,001 to £110,000. Please do not allow these people to make money out of deaf people by making us objects of pity.
Thanks for listening,
Tim.
As a deaf person, I'm a bit annoyed by the comments by other deaf people left on this video.
For one thing, Dafydd's comment that:
"However I should mention that some people do benefit from hearing aids, but they are usually older people who have had experience of sound."
is the biggest pile of nonsense I've seen written on anything to do with deafness for a while. The fact is that children who are born almost completely deaf (a group that includes me) gain access to a standard of living that just would not be possible without hearing aids. My own reading age is very definitely not 8 1/2 years, and my hearing aids most definitely have played an immeasurable part in this.
I don't doubt that Dafydd's had his own serious problems with hearing aids, and I sympathise, but the fact remains that hearing aids have been the single greatest invention in the last 100 years for deaf people.
Just because a minority of deaf people want to cling to a subculture of Sign Language - which depends for its survival on keeping a small group of people entirely dependent on a type of language that 99% of the rest of the world will not, never will, and will never have any good reason, to learn - doesn't mean that proponents of Sign Language can write this irresponsible rubbish about hearing aids and expect a pitying response.
As for the complaints about the RNID, who represent all 7 million deaf and hard-of-hearing people (and *not* just the 70,000 or so very deaf people in the UK), I'll mention James Strachan, who until very recently was CEO of RNID, and is profoundly deaf.
Deafness is a constant waking nightmare to live with, and has been since the day I was born. It stops me doing many things others take for granted, but I try to push against those limitations, and make the best of what I have. I wouldn't wish it on anyone, and I hope the RNID continues its work for years to come.
Neil
Hi again!
I would like to point out a couple of minor errors in Neil's post.
The RNID claims to represent 9 million deaf and hard of hearing people, not 7. I don't think numbers are important because they tend to give rise to argumentum ad populum.
Mr Strachan was until very recently the chairman of the RNID's board of trustees; he has not been CEO since 2002, when he was succeeded by John Low.
The RNID has not had any deaf or hoh people on it's senior management team for many years.
I think deaf people are entitled to their autonomy, like any other group. :)
Regards,
Tim :)
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