Silenced Film Analysis

Increasingly, deaf students are educated in mainstream school environments. This runs into problems with the demand of forming friendships with their hearing peers. When children that are deaf attend mainstream schools they have to have coping strategies when they encounter bullying and other problems in school. A study done by League for the Hard of Hearing in New York found that there is a gender difference in effectiveness of coping strategies used by the 35 deaf students attending a mainstream school setting (D, 2003). Deaf girls were found to be more confident and asked for clarifications on their work and were comfortable playing alone or playing with hearing students. In contrast, the boys were found to struggle with their relationships with hearing students. In the movie Silenced we found that the deaf boy Min-Soo struggled with making friends, asking for help, and often spent his time alone. We know that he was abused severely and wasn’t able to cope with this because he committed suicide at the end of the movie. Overall, the students Yoo-Ri, Yeon-Doo, and Min-Soo were talented and gifted in their classes. The teacher In-Ho often complimented them on their art work and they were able to express themselves through the court trial. Yeon-Doo and Yoo-Ri both were confident in their testimonies and were able to convey and express themselves in a persuasive way. The boy Min-Soo wrote out his testimony before hand because he was worried about it. He struggled with his confidence in his abilities and often needed reassurance from In-Ho and Yoo-Jin partially because of the abuse and how he struggled to cope. Hearing disabilities are one of the most stressful disabilities and it is crucial to have a strong mental health team to help them cope with their everyday challenges. The children benefit most from parental support. The University of Medical Science’s Audiology program did a study to see the effectiveness of social work services on the social adjustment of parents of children with hearing disabilities. They found that when there is a significant impact on parents who have social worker services and support. They are able to provide more assistance and help for their children and improve their social integration (Wernoosfaderani, 2014). In Silenced the children didn’t have a parental figure to provide them support. They were often left to fend for themselves and they weren’t able to communicate their needs with the teachers. The principal didn’t even both to learn KSL (Korean Sign Language). When In-Ho and Yoo-Jin took the children under their wing they slowly …show more content…
There are high rates of psychopathological issues which can occur with severe deafness or certain hearing impairments (van Gent, 2011). Children struggle with interacting with hearing people and this can represent chronic stressful conditions that put strain on their self-esteem and emotional problems. Deaf adolescents that have normal intelligence tend to have emotional mental health problems which correlated with stress from their school setting where they were bullied. When In-Ho first started working at the school he noticed that the children had mental health issues. His assumptions were correct that they had problems with abuse at the school which caused the children to have self-concept issues as well as problems with coping and their