Movie: Through Deaf Eyes Flashcards
Beethoven’s Nightmare
a band of Deaf people
90% of Deaf people are born to…
hearing parents.
Causes of Deafness
Genetic, accident/trauma, illness, earphones with really loud music
Thomas H. Gallaudet
Founder of Gallaudet University
Lauren Clerc
- First teacher of the Deaf in USA
- Co-counded the first school of the Deaf in the US
Abraham Lincoln
Signed the law to make Gallaudet a college
Eugenics
Getting rid of Dead people, wanting to eliminate Deafness
Residential Schools
- Deaf people were sent away to deaf schools
- Children were not raised with their families
-Where the seed of Deaf culture started (important)
Oral Failures
- Term for Deaf people who didn’t learn to lip read or speak
- They were transferred to a sign language program
George Vedits
- The guy in the black and white movies (silent firms)
- Made videos of ASL because he wanted to preserve it, old ways of signing
Huddle
What the team of Gallaudet University did on the football field to sign the game strategies without the other team seeing the game plan.
Ways to “cure” Deafness
- Plane loops
- Heat waves
- Emotional shocks (e.g., meeting Babe Ruth)
- Religious revivals
Alexander G. Bell
- Creator of the telephone
- Eugenic
- Pro-oral education
- His wife and mom were Deaf
Lip-reading
Oral school taught students to lip read
Segregated Schools
- Black Deaf students were segregated from the white Deaf students
- When combined, each race had their own dialect
Audiograms
Graph that shows the severity of a person’s hearing loss
Teletypewriters (TTYs)
Machine that Deaf people used to send written messages to other Deaf people
Deaf-friendly Homes
Showed in the documentary (couple’s house):
- open space to see each other
- not many walls
- light signals for doorbell, fire alarms, smoke detectors, phone lights
William Stokey
- Made the first ASL dictionary
- He did the study that determined ASL as a natural language
- He was hearing and a linguist
Children of a Lesser God
First motion picture with Deaf actor
Marlee Matlin
- Deaf actor from the movie “Children of a Lesser God”
- She signed and spoke at the Oscars and was heavily criticized by the Deaf community for speaking
Deaf President Now (DPN)
- Protest to have a Deaf President for Gallaudet University
ADA
American with Disabilities Act
Cochlear Implants
- Newest technology to make Deaf people “hear again”
- For severe/profound hearing loss (unlike hearing aids, which is for some hearing)
- Procedure that kills the ear hairs that allow hearing
