Seeing is Hearing

     It is always pleasant to see others helping the people around them and making them feel accepted. 45 year old Ms. Parker did sign language for the people who are deaf and hard of hearing at a concert in Chicago. The text says, “Music is such a large part of who I am,” she said. “I want to be able to open up that experience.” This lady wanted to use her intersts to help others enjoy it, too. People who are hard of hearing or deaf are not able to enjoy concerts, but Ms. Parker helped that not be an issue. The text also says, "...she communicates the entire musical experience. She mouths the words. She plays air guitar and air drums. She jams along with the bands." She not only helps the people see what they are saying, but she demonstrates what is going on around them so they get the full affect of what is going on on stage. This is a great way to give back to the community and let the people who cannot hear be envolved in what everyone else is doing.

     With Ms. Parker interpreting what is going on around her, the deaf people in the audience can now enjoy what other people love so much. The text says, “There was a kind of reverb,” she said. “The deaf audience was just — I just saw these jaws drop open like, ‘Oh, that’s what it’s like.’" This tells us that usually they do not get to experience what goes on around them unless they can see it. With Ms. Parker doing sign language, the people finally found out what that was like to be at a concert. The text also says, "...understanding the emotions behind it, the meaning behind it, and being a part of the concert experience just took my love for them several notches up.” Having this experience will give them the opprotunity to appreciate what they have missed all this time. It gives them the opprotunity to actually know what is going on and be envolved with what other people are envolved with. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/arts/music/sign-language-interpreters-bring-live-music-to-the-deaf.html?ref=us&_r=0