CODA Scholarship Essay: My Influence, My Heart, My Deaf Mother “Hold on please; let me interpret that to my mother.” This is the most common sentence I say when my deaf mother and I are out in public. From telling her that she has accidentally turned the volume of the television to the highest level [...]
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Joel Paola – 2012
CODA Scholarship Essay: Lessons From My Mother and Father As a hearing child of two deaf adults, others often ask if growing up has been difficult. I respond with an explanation of my view of my parents’ deafness as a simple fact of their existence– as plain to me as having brown hair or blue [...]
Erika Nielsen – 2012
CODA Scholarship Essay: It’s More Than Just Being Deaf When asked the question: how has your experience with deaf parents shaped your life, my inclination is to say: very little. Aside from a love of American Sign Language that I probably would not have otherwise, the tendency to flick lights on and off to get [...]
