David Eberwein’s Upstander in Deaf Community

David Eberwein is one of most well known person around in Deaf Community; he is very action leader person and will do everything for Deaf Community’s need. He believed that Deaf and Hearing are equal. Also, he not believed whose deaf people have bit lousy of grammar because for example hearing person who is smart person and can’t sign American Sign Language it’s mean that person are low function, it’s same with deaf people who have a skills of ASL and not bad with English’s grammar.

David Eberwein was born in Fresno, California, his parents and sister is deaf too. David Eberwein’s parents’ cares about Deaf community, they like to host picnic and clubs to keep deaf people together. David Eberwein looked up his parents and goes to different deaf camps to meets new friends and learns about leadership from camps. He attended to California School for the Deaf, Fremont when he was fourteen year old and stayed there from freshman through senior years. Right after David graduated from California School for the deaf, Fremont; he went to Gallaudet University and studied in Deaf Education Major. Also, he was involved with different organized action in Gallaudet and graduated there with bachelor’s degree. Then he wants to have master degree, so he decided to go San Francisco State University.

David Eberwein applied to work at CSD as high school teacher, but high school department was full except Early Childhood Education, available for teacher position. So David goes for it, he start to like his job and love it. Later, he transferred to other Curriculum and Media Services Department as Bilingual and Deaf Studies Specialist. He originally wanted become principal for Early Childhood Education but its not available except high school to principal are available, therefore he went for it. He has to go back to college to get PHD degree to keep his job as high school principal.

He thinks CSD is number one deaf school in nation because he did travel around the world and enter different Deaf schools. Most of them, Deaf school, don’t provide some stuff or offer for class like CSD. Also CSD do teach kids to become leader in someway, don’t must became leadership just do something or help deaf community. There so many Deaf people famous or leadership in the Deaf community, most of them are from CSD.

David Eberwein’s vision of deaf community, he want everyone in each of family who have a deaf children, their parents should use American Sign Language (ASL) to their children than leave them alone and don’t know to use ASL. Because in United States each family who have deaf children, about seventy percent don’t use ASL with their own deaf children.

He didn’t think about become a hearing person, because for example, did ever you want to became from white person into to black person, it same with between deaf and hearing. If there is no exist of David Eberwein, it could be whole the deaf community became lazy or start to don’t care about cares of Deaf community. He is the one who make us to cares and proud of deaf community. And we have to stay awake up and ready to face up something happen for Deaf community.