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1
Q

____ an actress who is deaf, won a Tony award for her performance in the Broadway play
Children of a Lesser God.

A

Phyllis Frelich

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____ received an Oscar for her performance in the
motion picture based on the same play, and she starred in the television dramatic series Reasonable
Doubts as a deaf lawyer.

A

Marlee Martin

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3
Q

Miss America of 1995, ___, is deaf.

A

Heather Whitestone McCallum

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4
Q

___ who played baseball from 1900 to 1908.

A

Luther Taylor

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5
Q

_____ played
professional football in the 1990s and now coaches for the Iowa School for the Deaf.

A

Kenny Walker

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6
Q

A swimmer who is deaf, won a silver medal.

A

Terrence Parkin

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7
Q

Because we are a speech-dominated society, some educators of persons who are deaf or hard of
hearing strongly advocate the use of ____.

A

oral-speech language

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8
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_____ in Germany stressing oralism (speech)

A

Samuel Heinicke

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9
Q

____ in France stressing manualism (gestures).

A

Abbé de l’Eprée

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10
Q

In the United States, the sign language approach was spearheaded by _____.

A

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

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11
Q

Founded the first school for the deaf in Hartford

A

Laurent Clerc

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12
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he oral approach to instruction was advocated by _____.

A

Alexander Graham Bell

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13
Q

Inventor of the telephone, audiometer, and the founder of the School of
Vocal Physiology in 1872.

A

Alexander Graham Bell

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14
Q

Both Gallaudet and Bell had mothers with severe hearing losses, and each man was firmly convinced of the correctness of his approach.

TRUE OR FALSE

A

TRUE

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15
Q

_____, a college graduate with a severe hearing loss,
advocate the use of both systems and coin the term total communication method to describe this
approach.

A

Bob Holcomb

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16
Q

_____ defined by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA,
2004) as a hearing impairment that is so severe that a child
cannot process linguistic information through hearing even with amplification or hearing aids.

A

Deafness

17
Q

____ refer to a profound or complete inability to hear and the term hard of hearing to refer to all other categories of hearing loss.

A

Deaf

18
Q

15-20 dB

A

Slight hearing loss

18
Q

20-40 dB

A

Mild hearing loss

19
Q

40-60 dB

A

Moderate hearing loss

20
Q

60-80 dB

A

Severe hearing loss

21
Q

More than 80 dB

A

Profound hearing loss

22
Q

Types of hearing loss:

A
  • Conductive hearing loss
  • Sensorineural hearing losses
  • Mixed hearing losses
23
Q

Occurs when something
blocks the sound passing
through the outer or middle
ear (ASHA, 2008).

A

Conductive hearing loss

24
Q

Caused by damage to the inner
ear (cochlea) or to the auditory
nerve, particularly in the delicate
sensory hairs of the inner ear or
in the nerves that supply them.

A

Sensorineural hearing losses

25
Q

The blockage can be caused
by wax, ear infections (otitis
media), or any type of
malformation of the ear canal

A

Conductive hearing loss

26
Q

Result from problems in the outer ear, as well as in the middle or inner ear, combining both conductive and sensorineural difficulties (ASHA, 2008).

A

Mixed hearing loss

27
Q

Causes of hearing loss

A
  • Genetic Causes
  • Environmental causes
  • TORCHS
28
Q

What does TORCHS stands for?

A

TO - TOXOPLASMOSIS
R - RUBELLE (GERMAN MEASLES)
C - CYTOMEGALOVIRUS (CMV)
H - HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS

29
Q

Hearing losses can be classified into four categories:

A
  • conductive losses,
  • sensorineural losses
  • mixed hearing losses
  • central auditory processing losses
30
Q

The first three types of hearing loss are related to problems with input—getting the information to the brain—whereas the fourth type is due to difficulties in processing the input once it is received.

TRUE OR FALSE

A

TRUE

31
Q

Combines sign language, speech, and other communication methods to provide a flexible, individualized approach

A

Total Communication

32
Q

n the United States, the education of students who were blind or had low vision began in the early _____.

A

19th century

33
Q

The _____, founded in ____, was the first school for the
blind in the United States.

A

Perkins School for the Blind

1829

34
Q

_____, the first state-supported residential school for the blind.

A

Ohio State School for the Blind

35
Q

In 1849, _____ for the Visually Impaired

A

Illinois founded the Illinois School

36
Q

APH stands for?

A

American Printing House for the Blind

37
Q

APH received funding to supply _____ books for blind students nationwide.

A

Braille

38
Q

In 1936, APH obtained permission to publish books for children in the ______ format.

A

Talking Book

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