The human body has been well equipped with five senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste, most of which are vital to one’s survival. If one of the essential senses were to abruptly disappear, one’s everyday world would be turned upside down and dropped into a pool of chaos: everything familiar is suddenly strangely different and unknown.

It seems that blindness and deafness are the two most often occurring “sense handicaps.” This being a common viewpoint, there has been much research done in the areas of defining what causes the disabilities, how to treat those that suffer from them, and, most importantly, how to help them adapt and assimilate to a world of people

Within the school systems, hard times are still present for the deaf. There are very few cases in which the deaf student is advanced enough to read lips well enough to not need a translator to convert the lecture or lesson into a language they are capable of comprehending. The set up requires that a skilled ASL translator stay with the student during class times and any other part of the day that requires the student to communicate with others in any given setting. Not only is the requirement of having a translator a burden to the student, but the ridicule that someone in that situation goes through would be unbearable. Having a disability that not many people take the time to understand, being the butt of countless jokes, and needing to depend on an adult to translate everything and anything you say to anyone is insufferable for a student of any age.

Evidence from society points toward the fact that the blind have a better chance than the deaf to integrate into the world as we know it. Many people unaffected by these handicaps live life like the disabilities do not exist when in fact they are an ever present factor in day to day life with which we must live and adapt to. There is no way around it, deafness and

Some topics in this essay:
Putting Senses, Independence CCI, Language ASL, Federation Blind, deaf community, world people, speak language, live life, sign language, blindness deafness,