Final Flashcards
What does lane mean when he speak of the True History and False History
False- The skill is all the teacher’s, not the Deaf’s.Oral teachers saved the deaf
True History- What really happened.
Lane gives 14 steps to the making of a successful oral teacher. What are they?
- Rich clients—can pay for it. Carefully select and teach a few students..lost hearing later, greaterintelligence, still hear some3. Deny your student’s unique qualities, only teacher’s intelligence4. Disregard your student’s previous teachers5. Exaggerate your own accomplishments and your students6. Teach few but give impression of many7. Learn your student’s sign language8. (but) Deny knowing or using your pupil’s sign language9. Be patient-inactive mind (Epee’s description of an ideal oralist teacher)10. Live in student’s home or student live in your home at his expense11. Swear students to secrecy; permit no one to observe you. The more secretive, the more people will believe in its power12. Hire relatives “family secret and legacy”13. Publish. Acknowledge predecessors-this gives substance to your work but insist your methods are original and only became aware of others after you invented the method14. Collect student testimonials
Who does Lane say are the only two men in the history of deaf education who had the genius to originate and the commitment to act?
PPL and L’Epee
Who “could not be hearing and would not be deaf”?
Marie Marois (student of Pereire)
According to Epee, what type of person would make a good candidate for an oralist teacher?
Someone whose mind is not active; dull
What two things motivated Pereire to become a teacher of the deaf?
persecution and love
What was Pereire’s one contribution to the true history of the Deaf?
Wrote down finger spelling and it spread across Europe and America
Where did Bonet get the handshapes for his manual alphabet?
Melchor de Yebra
What was the primary reason why PPL and Ramirez de Carrion taught the de Velascos speech?
Law- if you can’t talk you’re not a real person.
What were some of the assumptions the Abbe Deschamps had about sign language?
vague, concrete and arbitrary
What were Epee’s views about teaching the deaf to speak? What did he say about using French–spoken, finger spelled, written–as a vehicle for the basic instruction of the deaf?
Took a lot of time and they wouldn’t acquire understanding. It wasn’t worth it. It was more important for him to educate the mind.
What did Pierre Pelissier, a deaf professor, publish in regards to the deaf that Lane says will allow his name to go down in history for this achievement?
What signs look like- pronunciation of sign.
What hearing person is said to hold a place next to the Abbe de l Epee for the French Deaf?
Roch-Ambroise Bebian. He could sign like a Deaf person and was actually friends with the Deaf students. He wasn’t trying to be in any position of power.
What condition (in regards to how the school was run) was the Paris Institute during Sicard’s declining years?
Poor; teachers didn’t have a curriculum they were following so students weren’t progressing from class to class. Everyone was teaching their own thing, but they were all using methodical sign which Bebian saw as worthless.
WHat led to Bebian being forced to resign from the Paris Deaf Institute?
Sicard couldn’t protect him anymore. Fought the management for Deaf rights. He was too loud.
Who was supposed to succeed Sicard as the headmaster of the school? What happened to him instead?
Massieu; forced to retire because he was too smart for the hearing board; married an 18 year old girl who helped him become more normal
What happened that led Jean-Marc Itard to the school and eventually make it part of his life?
He was avoiding the military draft and got a friend to make him a doctor.
What did Itard do to Victor that Lane felt was unforgivable?
Wouldn’t allow him to learn sign with the boys. At the school
What eventually happened to the Wild Boy of Aveyron after Itard finished working with him years later?
Became mute
How did Itard describe deaf people during his early years at the school?
Civilized on the outside, barbaric on the inside
What were some of Itard’s medical experiments on the deaf students?
Pour liquid in their ears, crack their skulls and place a white hot button behind their ears, leeches on necks, electricity to ears
What did Itard blame for his failure to teach the deaf speech?
Sign Language
After many years Itard had a radical change in his views on deaf education and the role of sign language. What led to this change and who helped him?
Allibert; He had been training Allibert one on one, but Allibert convinced Itard to let him learn at the Paris Deaf Institute. Itard saw that the growth and evolution of signing society made instruction easier and more effective.
By 1821 what did Itard finally realize about the Paris Institute?
Sign language was the best way to educate the Deaf
Describe De Gerando’s personality and character.
Arrogant, Ignorant and set in his ways. He was trying to be benevolent but went about it the wrong way.
Itard makes comparisons between Massieu and Clerc to prove a point about the school. Discuss some of his comparisons.
Massieu’s style was socially awkward, he wrote choppily with spurts of genius. Clerc was eloquent and socially interactive and it was evident in his writing.
What two steps did Desire Ordinaire try to implement at the Paris Deaf Institute to become a fully spoken French Program?
Keep the same teacher all 6 years; hearing teachers, deaf assistants, teach speech
How did the faculty respond to Desiere Ordinaire’s efforts to make the Paris Deaf Institute a fully spoken French program?
Kept teaching sign anyway, wouldn’t stand for it. He was only there for 3 days.
What does drapetomania mean?
A disease that caused slaves to run away from their masters. The cure is abuse.
How is deviance defined traditionally in the social science of literature?
An attribute that is different from other members of society and socially isolates a person
Who is Sir George Downing (mid 1600s) and what is significant about him?
A government official from Kent who hired Deaf spies and used sign language to communicate with them.
What we’ll-known person did research on the Vinyarders and why?
AGB; to see how deafness occurred (if it was hereditary, etc) and to stop marriages between deaf.