Movie: Through Deaf Eyes Flashcards
1
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Beethoven’s Nightmare
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a band of Deaf people
2
Q
90% of Deaf people are born to…
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hearing parents.
3
Q
Causes of Deafness
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Genetic, accident/trauma, illness, earphones with really loud music
4
Q
Thomas H. Gallaudet
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Founder of Gallaudet University
5
Q
Lauren Clerc
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- First teacher of the Deaf in USA
- Co-counded the first school of the Deaf in the US
6
Q
Abraham Lincoln
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Signed the law to make Gallaudet a college
7
Q
Eugenics
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Getting rid of Dead people, wanting to eliminate Deafness
8
Q
Residential Schools
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- Deaf people were sent away to deaf schools
- Children were not raised with their families
-Where the seed of Deaf culture started (important)
9
Q
Oral Failures
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- Term for Deaf people who didn’t learn to lip read or speak
- They were transferred to a sign language program
10
Q
George Vedits
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- The guy in the black and white movies (silent firms)
- Made videos of ASL because he wanted to preserve it, old ways of signing
11
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Huddle
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What the team of Gallaudet University did on the football field to sign the game strategies without the other team seeing the game plan.
12
Q
Ways to “cure” Deafness
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- Plane loops
- Heat waves
- Emotional shocks (e.g., meeting Babe Ruth)
- Religious revivals
13
Q
Alexander G. Bell
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- Creator of the telephone
- Eugenic
- Pro-oral education
- His wife and mom were Deaf
14
Q
Lip-reading
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Oral school taught students to lip read
15
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Segregated Schools
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- Black Deaf students were segregated from the white Deaf students
- When combined, each race had their own dialect
