For my project I choose to take my experience coaching a baseball player who was deaf and write about it. His name was Joseph and he was a tryout for the freshmen team at Lowndes High School. I met him at one of the VSU Baseball camps earlier this summer. He has an unbelievably strong arm and a great body for baseball. Our coaching staff was a little hesitant about keeping him due to the obvious communication problems.
Communication is very important in baseball.
But being apparent that he had great talent we decided to keep him this year to see how things worked out. It was my responsibility to find a way to communicate with him and make him a baseball player. I quickly began to research his disability through the school. I talked to his specialty teacher, Mrs. Gastons, and asked for some ideas about any possible adaptations we as coaches could make for Joseph.