We have a patient who has inability to hear and speak. That makes me feel bad that I can't communicate to him at all. Before I went for duty, I tried to open the you tube site on how to greet a patient using sign language. I taught myself how to say "how are you?" and how to ask "are you ok?"
Deaf people are not dumb. They are still normal human beings who have feelings. They have the right to receive information and the right to have attention. It is very frustrating for them to tell what they feel when you don't understand them. They cannot hear and signals are the only way to let them know.
I have been learning sign language before (just by internet) and I know how to do sign language in letters. I finished my gradeschool in SPED -Special Education. Well, I am on the normal class. In our school they categorized us as on the advanced while children with deficiencies are the special children. So sign language is not new to me. However, I did not learn more about it.
Now that I am working, meeting people with such inabilities makes me want to learn more about these things. I am thinking of enrolling myself in a class learning sign language for my patients and my own benefit.
Here is a very touching video about a father and daughter scene and how the disability of the father affected their lives.
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Deaf people are not dumb. They are still normal human beings who have feelings. They have the right to receive information and the right to have attention. It is very frustrating for them to tell what they feel when you don't understand them. They cannot hear and signals are the only way to let them know.
I have been learning sign language before (just by internet) and I know how to do sign language in letters. I finished my gradeschool in SPED -Special Education. Well, I am on the normal class. In our school they categorized us as on the advanced while children with deficiencies are the special children. So sign language is not new to me. However, I did not learn more about it.
Now that I am working, meeting people with such inabilities makes me want to learn more about these things. I am thinking of enrolling myself in a class learning sign language for my patients and my own benefit.
Here is a very touching video about a father and daughter scene and how the disability of the father affected their lives.
please click this link to watch the video-
To learn more about me, please click Yvonne Tuguinay.
If this article has inspired you please like my fanpage below.
handled this patient last Friday and it was sure challenging to communicate with him especially the fact that he was an immediate post-op patient. thankfully, simple sign language and some body language got me through and i was able to attend to him like i would with patients without disabilities. great eye opener, doesn't hurt to learn more though :) nice read!
ReplyDeleteAte Ros, probably it's the same patient we are talking about. Ahuh! Sure it is an eye opener for nurses. It's actually my second deaf patient. Patients who are deaf can also lip read so while doing sign language/simple body language, it is ok to say it in words.
DeleteWere you also touched by the video posted like me?