Ch.1-5 Deaf Perspectives Flashcards
NAD was established in _____ and is the oldest _____ _____ Organization in the US .
- EST.1880
- Oldest Civil Rights Organization
The percentage of Streaming Videos captioned on Netflix by NAD’s level efforts is ___% .
-100%
The Department of Transportation hired __#__ Deaf/HH to receive a Commercial Driver’s License, to be able to drive 18 wheelers.
618
There are ___ Deaf Schools and _____+ Deaf programs throughout the US.
- 85
- 1000+
Every year ___#___ Deaf/HH turn to NAD to help w/ Legal needs.
1,300
__#__+ Babies have been identified as Deaf/HH every year.
12,000
There are __#__ million Deaf/HH people in the United States out of 320 million total people.
48 million
What is the difference between CODA and coda?
CODA-Organization
coda- individual person
What is Laurent Clerc known as being?
The Co-father of Deaf Education
Who is I king Jourdan ?
The first deaf president of Gallaudet. (DPN)
What is the significance of the outside cover ?
Harry Williams is an artist who participates in DeVia.
What percent of “Deafies” marry other “Deafies”?
Book- 90%
KS- 75%
What is home communication like for Hearing parents and Deaf Child ?
Hearing parents talk to Deaf child, which isn’t the best way to increase language formation for Deaf.
Who do the Co-authors blame for the root of the, language, home problem ?
The parents (for not including sign into their child’s life early on)
What is the relationship between Deaf Child and Hearing parent?
Father tends to be the worst signer. Child is subject to its environment.
Do Deaf have their own location somewhere In the world ?
No specific Geographical location
What did I King Jourdan think about his deafness ?
“Losing my Hearing from a motorcycle accident at 21 was the best thing to ever happen. “
Gallaudet is the only institute where you can enter at Kinder and leave w/ a ____ !
PHD !
How many years did MVSL last from 1652 ?
300 years! (1652-1952)
What are the various Hearing levels from Normal to Total ?
Normal Mild Moderate Severe Profound Total
What are the 3 kinds of hearing aids ?
Body Aid
Behind the Ear
Invisible / In Canal Aid
What years were the body aid used up until?
1930-1968
What year did the Behind The Ear Aid begin use ?
1968- present
When did the Invisible/ In Canal Aid begin use ?
2000-present
What percent have no explanation for their deafness ?
30%
How much is rent for an apartment at CSDR ?
$1,445
How much is rent for an apartment at CSDF ?
$2,430
When was CSDF established ?
1860
What was the first ever name for Gallaudet in 1864?
National Deaf-Mute College
What year did Gallaudet become a University?
1986
How many students were enrolled in NTID’s pilot program when it opened in 1968 ?
70 students
Who is the current board of trustees chairman @ SWCID until 2020 ?
John E Freeman
What are the three values of CSUN ?
Commitment to :
- teaching
- scholarship
- active learning
What society is credited with having a part in organizing the Milan Conference ?
The Pereire Society
How many Deaf Representatives were present @ the Milan Conference ?
5 Deaf Rep’s
What year was NAD established ?
1880
What was the most favorable age to admit a Deaf child into a Deaf School, according to the Milan Conference ?
Between 8-10 years old.
Who is George Veditz ?
The 7th President of NAD
The use of the word “of” when referring to an association means..?
Made by Deaf for Deaf
The use of the word “for the” when referring to an association means..?
Made by Hearing people for Deaf people.
What year did the Post-Milan Conference begin ?
1993
What are 4 unusual things that Abraham Lincoln has on his memorial statue that some may not be familiar w/ ?
- The back of his head features General Lee when seen in the right light.
- Hand Shapes A/L can be seen in Lincoln’s hands. (Abe Lincoln )
- The buttons to Holes ratio on Lincoln’s jacket is uneven.
- only 3 legs of his chair are fully carved. One is only a fraction/edge.
What does MLS stand for considering Deaf people ?
Minimal Language Skills
What year did Daniel F Chester Build the Lincoln Memorial ?
1922
What year did Daniel F Chester build Gallaudets statue of a little girl ?
1889
AGB built the telephone to help his wife Mabel, but happens to set back The Deaf for another ___ years.
90
What is Ursula Bellugi of the Salk institute considered to be ?
The Mother of ASL Linguistics.
What is William Stokoe considered as in the Deaf Community ?
The Father of ASL Linguistics.
Sculpted people in Gallaudets outside gallery are _______ to celebrate their birthday/ celebration.
Cleaned
Who is Bonnie Gough ?
San Diego’s first ASL teacher ;1972
Where do the majority of Deaf World members including the professor pick up their shared language and culture?
School
Institutes
Parents
Where do Deaf people try to visit in their travels?
Residential Schools
The book defines Gallaudet University as the Mecca of the Deaf World. The professor believes one other school that shares the Mecca with Gallaudet. What is the name of the school?
NTID
What happened in March 1988?
Deaf President Now (DPN)
List five types of activities Deaf people get together and enjoy
sports, social, religion, political and arts.
What are the four common characteristics of Deaf culture minority?
- Share Common Language
- Identify as Deaf
- Marry within (have children)
- Have past oppression
In California, how widespread are minorities in Deaf education?
60-70% of California is made up of minorities.
Who need to deal with three languages every day?
Spanish/English/ASL speakers
What is a special problem that Deaf Native Americans face unlike other minorities?
Native Americans need to either live w/ their family on the reservation or move to a community closer to their needs.
What are the top five minority languages in 1996?
Spanish Italian German French ASL
What is the first fallacy about ASL?
Sign language is pictorial
What is the argument that ASL is not universal?
Deaf communities that evolve independently have independent sign languages.
In what two ways is using sign language more advantageous than spoken language?
- ASL is able to be used before the hearing child speaks by 3 months.
- pronoun formation develops earlier.
What is a Contact Language ?
Borrowed languages that are within language reach to create a language.
When was the first school for the Deaf opened at Hartford, Conn.?
1817
ASL was the result of three sources.
- LSF
- Indigenous Signed languages
- home signs
List three changes in ASL from 1817 to present.
More symmetrical
More centrally located
More fluid
What separated Alexander Graham Bell from Edward Miner Gallaudet?
AGB’s fortune came from the invention of the telephone. Gallaudet taught bilingual education.
Name the nation’s first oral school opened in 1867 in Massachusetts.
The Clarke school
The International Convention for Deaf Education in Milan, Italy in 1880 passed resolutions basically on two ideas.
- articulation over signs
- Oralism over Sign
What were three disastrous results that followed in Europe?
- Deaf teachers fired
- Deaf students quarantined
- Draconian measures imposed on new deaf students
In the U.S. AGB established in 1890 an organization named ____________________. Its primary goal is to ____________.
- The AGB association
- goal: promoting promoting deaf’s assimilation into hearing society
What happened to ASL in schools after the Milan conference?
ASL banned.
Prior to 1880, Deaf teachers made up 42% of the Deaf education faculty. What is the current percentage?
7%
The Deaf in the U.S. and Europe view the Congress of Milan as e_______ for harming sign languages and cultures.
Emblematic
Why is ASL not 100% consistent throughout the U.S.?
- ASL Accent plays a part
- Depending on who you grow up w/ or where you pick up sign may be different.
What is called for contact between ASL and English for language variation? c_______ s_____
Contact Sign
What was the older name for Contact Sign used in the 1970s?
Pidgin Sign English
Quote Barbara Kannapell on ASL.
“To reject ASL is to reject the Deaf person.”
Why does ASL come easily for the Deaf?
Full information through ASL. Fragmentary information/ 1-way info outside the Deaf world.
What would make Deaf people traitors in Deaf culture?
Deaf who adopt hearing values/ oppress other Deaf people.
If one is asked where he comes from, place of residence is not considered. Instead, what information is expected for meeting new people?
Name of residential school that they attended.
Group loyalty in Deaf culture is ____________.
Fierce !
What is surprising about the shared identity and sense of family in Deaf culture?
It crosses national borders
Find out how we introduce new people and straight talk.
Through Name Sign
What would be looked down in a gathering?
Keeping things secret. So private conversations should be held in private locations.
What are the four parameters in signs? What is the fifth parameter in the professor’s ASL classes?
- HOLMN
- Mouth Morphemes (5th).
What is the rule for a sign with two hands in motion?
Both hands must mirror each other.
What two things do you need to make a conditional clause?
A cause and effect
If This happens, then this will happen in Result
What is the common pattern among positively valued signs such as happy, thrilled, laugh? How about the negatively valued signs (sad, cheap, lousy)?
Positive signs move upwards as negative signs move downward.
What did one study prove regarding the prediction of good speech for reading skill?
Students w/ profound hearing loss, who received an oral education found no connection between speech perception an reading achievement.
What research proves that both spoken and signed language play the same role?
The left hemisphere that is responsible for language regardless of what language (ASL).
What do you as a listener have to remember where in a signed conversation the referent (person or object) is set up?
Role shifting is set up (ASL). While you have to remember by context who is who in a story by FE/left to right character change.
How do we define ourselves as a people?
A Visual people.
How does language help Deaf people in a few words?
The most important force that bonds the members of the Deaf-World together.
name the theatrical company that brought ASL and cultural awareness to hearing audiences around the globe from 1967 to the early 1990s.
NBC
Name the international organization for Deaf Gay and Lesbians.
The (DGLC) Deaf Gay and Lesbian Coalition.
What is the purpose of DeVIA ?
To express the deaf experience fully in an art form.
Who won an Oscar for her role in “Child of a Lesser God” ?
Marlee Matlin
What college provides a specialized internship for students looking to serve as a psychiatrist for Deaf ?
University of Rochester; Medical Center
What is the name of the program one must enter after obtaining a bachelors to become an Audiologist ?
The Doctorate of Audiology (AuD) program
List 3 types of settings one might consider working in if they want to become an Interpreter.
Video Relay Service (VRS)
Mainstream School Interpreting
Live Concert Interpreting
Why would it be a good idea to have Deaf/HH contact if you would like to become an interpreter ?
To improve expressive / receptive skills.
What degree do you need to teach ASL to Deaf children ?
A bachelors degree in anything, a degree in Deaf studies and a teaching degree/certification.
Who are the top 4 professionals for pushing the deficit model for hearing loss ?
Otologists
Audiologists
Speech therapy
Special education
Why do doctors insist on the label “hearing impaired”?
“Impairment gives a rise to a disability. Which may also impair their ability for SPOKEN language.”
What kind of child rearing do Hearing parents tend to do for the Deaf child?
- husband/wife communicate less
- neglect for other family members who don’t know ASL.
- a big decision to go to Oralism or not for their child.
Where did people try to create 2 new Deaf towns but failed to do so ?
Iowa
S.Dakota
How long did the Iowa “Deaf” town last until wearing out?
1850-1860 (10 Years)
What was the name of the S.Dakota town that didn’t last in the 1990’s?
“Laurent”
Tell me a little about Ben Bahan (Author).
- Born In NJ
- Graduate of Marie Katzenbach school for the deaf
- Gallaudet Graduate
- Went to the Salk institute for ASL research
- Co-Founder of DawnSignPress
Tell me a little about Harlan Lane (Author).
- Specialist in Psychology of Language
- Hartford U.
- MIT
Tell me about Robert Hoffmeister (Author).
- coda
- Grew up in the American School for the Deaf
- specialist in ASL acquisition and Bilingual Ed for deaf children
Manually Coded English or Methodical Sign Language are considered…?
codes, not true languages.
Manually Coded English or Methodical Sign Language attempt to represent english on the hands by adding…?
- prefixes
- suffixes
- verb tense endings
Human beings are S____ animals who communicate with each other almost constantly through sounds and movements.
social
Language is most often conveyed via speech and hearing but we can just as readily use _____ and _____ .
gesture and sight
however, most sign languages, especially the most complex among them, have been developed by _______ _______.
Deaf Communities.
______’s of sign languages are in use around the world today.
hundreds
What do all Sign Languages use around the world?
HOLMN.FE
what is more common for a deaf person at a young age to use?
some kind of gestural language.
Where does ASL originate from?
LSF (France)
because deaf people live among hearing people, they typically are ______.
Bi-Lingual
deaf people introduce elements of English into ASL my _____.
Finger spelling
like spoken languages, ASL is handed down from ______ to ______ within the deaf community.
Generation to Generation
‘descriptions of signs” can also be known as …?
“the natural language of signs.”
deaf people have formed distinct cultures / languages all over the world for the last ______ years.
300 years
ASL has an unwritten literature that includes …?
- oratory
- folklore
- performance art
people who lose their hearing later in life tend to not …?
learn to sign or identify with deaf culture
what percent of english is visible with use of lipreading?
30-40%
what are some things that a lipreader has to depend on to follow the speaker?
- body language
- context
what kinds of people have a harder time with lip reading?
Most people with severe to profound hearing loss.
Most deaf_____ have always supported the teaching of lipreading and speech in schools.
deaf adults
what were the years that\ MVSL was present ?
(1652-1952)
Years after the voyage across the Atlantic, Gallaudet would be acknowledged as the _______ of ASL.
Master Teacher and later an ordained minister.
clerc’s presence in america was critical to the ______ to deaf education in america.
founding to deaf edu.
clerc and Gallaudet termed the first bi lingual approach to education. making use of _____ , _____ , ______ .
- ASL
- FS
- Written english
most deaf, in 1817, would live and die without …?
coming in contact with another deaf person.
to combat the problem of deaf not meeting one another, the only solution was to …?
bring the deaf to residential schools.
in 1817, what 2 times would students go home from residential schools?
- Summer
- Christmas
what methods would 19th C. physicians use to try and “cure” a patient who was deaf?
- salt water
- honey
- oil
- alcohol
- laudanum
what did the superintendents send with the children for their parents to learn?
-signs and alphabet
teachers explained sign language as …?
the natural/intended language of the Deaf
