This book is about me, I have spent the last twenty-two years on a journey that was full of unanswered questions, I have turned over every stone and spent countless hours of research to find out how I could as a hearing impaired person, acquire an identity in a developing nation

The content in this book are very important to me, because I have for years wanted to help people save themselves from the endless unanswered questions and endless anxiety and doubt that comes along with teaching and ... more »

This book is about me, I have spent the last twenty-two years on a journey that was full of unanswered questions, I have turned over every stone and spent countless hours of research to find out how I could as a hearing impaired person, acquire an identity in a developing nation

The content in this book are very important to me, because I have for years wanted to help people save themselves from the endless unanswered questions and endless anxiety and doubt that comes along with teaching and accepting the hearing impaired into the main stream African Society

The target audiences are the bosses who are responsible to employing others who are different, to parents of children who have been diagnosed with hearing impairment and the society who enjoy literature and poetry, this book may give you some great information

In authoring this book I consider myself a self-taught expert not only on the subjects of the life experience involved with people who are hard of hearing but of the hearing world, more so because I am a part of both and has experienced both sound and silence, I do not have a medical degree or a formal education in these subjects. I am a man who has spent the last three years of his life learning everything possible on these subjects, and most recently through online access at the University I currently work

Going to numerous seminars, spending endless hours with the net, and attending over a hundred-and-fifty students in the sport committee, people who endlessly ask me questions about my hearing, has given me a great deal of knowledge and understanding of language development and more motivation to speak out.

This book will describe in detail the journey and the procedures that my parent and I went through to help me hear and speak normally as well as any normal hearing child, years after I have become hearing impaired.

It has been proven by at least one medical study that hearing impaired people's brains are wired differently from hearing people's brains. The part that hearing people use for hearing, we use for sight! Virtually no educational program that I have heard of , capitalizes on that strength. Most of us are visual learners!

I believe that you as parents or professional have the ability to do the same and follow the same step that people has been following to make this author.  You need to be willing and let the motivation be in place as explained in this book, the services need to be in place, the expertise needs to be in place, and most importantly, never doubt what these very special children can do.


Silence with many voices

I remember after the illness,
How just in the most innocent way,
People would come up to me
In an airport, in a mall,
And start frantically signing,
Attempting to speak,
Letting me know I still belonged
-And the signings, you know?
It does work. It works for me

So I am just making up a story
With a lot of expressive language
From a world were I see voices
So you will know the man I am
And the language that worked for me

The language is very dynamic
And so are the poems,
And even though it was written by me
Certain questions must be asked

…do they follow the rules of conversation?
Or is their speech grammatically correct?
Mirroring that of a normal hearing world?
That Omosun Sylvester was once a part.

Yes! I to your questions I could say

…The articulation is clear in its storytelling
with normal speech sounds at various ages
through meanings in my mind that are profound
the story will ensure very clear speech

Because I will talk about in each page
The answer you need to know of me
Then you will talk about the next page
The explanation of what you saw in the story

How I became a visual learner
with mild-moderate low frequency loss
and why hasn't the hearing world
saw a gateway to a whole new culture

…that perhaps there is something good
about having enhanced vision
and the language that worked for me  Less