Test #5 Culture Flashcards
Lev Vygotsky
psycologist - beleive children develope thinking and cogniztive skills while ebing guided by experts in soliving probelms together
Beleived that adults and culture shape children’s learning
Deaf teachers and Deaf parents
Deaf teachers and Deaf parents prvide language and cultural role modeling for Deaf students –> guides them in how to integrate both the deaf and cultural worlds
- ALSO halpe deaf chidlren translate their gesturs and ASL into english
Disciplining Deaf students
At school whena. crisis occurs (Such as a teen acting out) a Deaf teacher or staff memeber is pulled in to dioscipline the deaf student because often the deaf stduent is able to connect or communicate with the deaf teacher or staff member
Deaf people controlling education
Deaf people have not bee allowed to take control of their education (escpecially early childhood)
Role of deaf teachers
Help by setting up visual learning envirnments +
ALSO incorporating elements of deaf culture AND open chanels of langauge, reading, and academic learning to develope foundations of thinkning, cognition, and learing
Auditory and visual learning
Teachers can provide visual and auditory learning to support students by providing scafolding
- Deaf learners may be more dependnet on vision than hearing peers BUT some may have residual hearing that is supported by cochlear implants or hearing aids
Use of IQ tests
IQ tests - used to evaluate and plan for educational, vocational, and mental health services
History of deaf intelligence
Past - deaf people were thought to have less inteligence compared to hearing + though deaf people were conctrete thinkers rather than abstract thinkers
NOW - know that Inteligence is normally distrbuted in deaf population AND that wurg ASL you can express contcrete and abstract ideas
Concrete thinkers Vs. Abstract thinkers
Concrete thinkers - Experince the world through familiar objects and evenets
Abstract thinkers - Find principles in recurring events and solve probelms
Deaf people performance on IQ Tests
Deaf people prefrom the same as hearing people on tests of nonverbal intelogence BUT score lower on English-lanaguge based tests
***Deaf people = given english-language based IQ tests for many years –> Some deaf people were disdiasgnosed as Mentally retsraded, autistic, mentally ill and placed in inapprproate facilities
Junius Wilson
Deaf man –> was in mental hospital and prison for 6 years BUT he was never decleared insane or found guilty of any crime
- In mental hospital and prison withought being gievn apprpriate tests or accomidations
Understanding relationship between thought and language
Understanding this relationship helps us understand deaf people better because many deaf people grow up in deprived language envirnments
Developing thinkning skills
Deaf children develop thinkning skills as they experince their world through the senses
When learn lnaguage - children label their expeirnces and concepts, reorgiznate them into new patterns, and talk about them
Expressing thought
Language is not the only way to express thought
Chidlren can use langauage to form new thoughts without having the expeirnces with real objects and events
Lanauage provides kids with a system to encode + organize + remeber their expeirnces
Use of language for kids
With langauge they can tranlsate thoughts and ideas into speech + signs + getures + written symbols AND can share these with others
Development of cognitive skills
With their language skills kids can develope more cognitive skills BUT some forms of cognitive organziation and thinkning do not need language
***Deaf children who have no lanaguage are able to invent their won systems of gestures to express themsleves
Cycle of thinkning and language
We develop thinkning skills and label ideas with lanaguge THEN thinkning and language interact to create more thinkning and language
MEANS - important for deaf children to have early access to lanaguage - without language they cannot develop thinning and social skills to maximum potential
Thinking and language development in hearing kids
For hearing kids - thinikniong and lanaguge are first developed within the family circle THEN family circle widens to school communities and culture
Deaf children raised as bicultural people
Deaf children raised biculturally benefit from both families - including hearing families and deaf culture community – both provide support for thinkning + socilization + langauge development
Thinkning skills and cognitive abilities
Thinkning skills are part of a broader set of cognitive abilities
Cognitive abilities = visual attention + imagery + visual-spatial skills + memory + learning + metacognition
Deaf peolpe using ASL
Deaf people may use ASL to think + learn + remeber BUT ASL is not the only factor in development of cignitive abilities
- Backgroun + World knowldge + home/school expeirnces + language/commucation modes + lerning stradegies plat a role in development of cognitive abilities
How do deaf people think + learn + remeber
Deaf people use eyes to think + learn + remeber
How does deaf culture affect visual learning
Deaf people have similar values and behaviors that reflect their deaf cultural ways of learing through visual expeinces (different from learning through hearing)
Simon’s study (Study of deaf culture in an urban american deaf Community)
Elaborates on visual learning - writes that visual retertoire is one of the most fundemental characteristics of Deaf culture
- Visual repertoire - means that deaf people use vision in face-face communication through ASL and otehr sign communication + use visual technology devices + use reading + use writting
Ex - deaf people use smartphones to text and videophones
Visual Learners
Includes hearing kids who depend on their eyes + deaf or HOH kids learning ASL + deaf bimodal/billingual kids using Cochlear implants as their learn to talk and ASL
Advanatge of signning deaf kids
Signing deaf kids have advangtage of earlier cognitive and social skills because have better visual attention skills to attend to adult’s faces when learing languges thus speeding the acquisition process
Ways deaf chidlren learn lanaguge at home and schools
Using eyes to look (gazing behaviors) and looking with another person (joint attention)
Teachers + mothers use chidlren’s eyes to get attention + teach language and readining
Math and science instruction
teachers can develop better science and math instruction using ASL + visual aids + rotating objects
Visual learning aids
Deaf children use other types of visual learninig aids
- Deaf learners may use vision in addition to audition with hearing aids or CI to support memory and language learning
Ex. Pictures + drawings + print + movies + visual medua
Seeing abilities of deaf vs. hearing
Compared to hearing people - deaf people have the same abilities in seeing shades of color + distguishing between flashing items + visual motion BUT deaf people have better peripheral vision
Peripheral Vision
Helpful - can be good for saftey
Bad - Deaf children are easily attuned to movments in the envirnment –> they may appear easily distacted/may be diverted by stduents working next to them or be sidetracked by flickering lights
Best envirnment for instruction
Having small call size + desks in semi circlee - best for deaf students to focus on instructor (have constistent visual envirnment_
Deaf students in non-deaf classroom
Deaf students must divide visual attention
Example - watch the lip movemnts of teacher as receive spoken language through hearing aids/ CI + may have to switch attention to look at sogn of interpret
What are deaf students better at
Deaf students may be better in forming pictures in their mind + remeber pictures or objects ina room + remebering moving objects
- Deaf people who use ASL preform better than hearing signers and nonsigners on changing visual attention quickly + scanning visual material + detect motion + recognize faces
Leroy Colombo
Deaf life guard - saved many lives –> was able to quickly see and rescue swimmers
What do Deaf children use to learn
Deaf children use their memory to learn language + how to read and write + school subjects
- Poor memory skills may hold you back from learning in school
Deaf children memory
Deaf children’s memory has been tied to use of ASL
Deaf children remever than than hearing with nimbers + printed words + pictires BUT they remeber better with tasks (Ex. recognizing faces) + better memory on visual spatial tasks
How do deaf children remeber
Deaf children use visual imagry and spatial coding to remeber informatioon
- Deaf students can sue signs to remeber printed words + images _ sign phrases
- may use phonologic enciding OR sign and fingerspelling coding stedeagies
Phonologic encoding
See speech on lips and feel the information of the words on their lips
Metacognition
being able to reflect on your own thinking
- Theory of mind and excutive function = metacognitive skills that help chidlren make freinds and develop relationships
What do deaf teachers and peers provide
Deaf tecahers and peers provide modeling and conversations for deaf children so they can develope excutive functioning and theory of mind skills
- Deaf teachers provide oppertunities for deaf kids ti learn metacognitive + ToM + EF skills by signing and using own stories
Theory of Mind
The ability to understand other people’s intentions + feelngs + emtions; focuses on how people get along with others and develop empathy
Deaf chidlren theory of mind skills
Deaf children of deaf parents have Theory of Mind skilsl equal to hearing children
- Mother’s ASL skills + mom talking to deaf child about felings and beleifs = led to increased ToM scores
Deaf late signs = often don’t have conversations at home about other people’s feelings, wants, and theoughts –> they may not understand perpective of others
Executive functioning
Skills that you use to get organized + control your behaviors to get things done + problem solve
- EF skills = develop from conversations with parents about everday activities
Deaf children EF skills
Deaf children with poor langauge and memeory skills = easily distacted –> may have trouble finishing projects + may have difficulty with EF skills
Deaf kids with good EF skills can control their impulses and emotions + are flexible + can learn from past mistakes + can correct behavior
EF skills + School work
EF skills = improtant for deaf chidlren school work
Use EF to pay attention+_ apply what they learn to new sititions + contol emotions and impulases + planning + reasoning + judgment + reading
How can deaf children learn ToM and EF skills
By describing everday events + including a description of one’s emotions –> deaf children can learn about metacognition + ToM + EF
- Deaf children who have rich language base = can see and understand conversations = develop cognitive abilities
Babies learning language
Babies learning language happens without effort
Language can come from two paths - ears and eyes
Deaf baby learning language
Same as hearing babu but instead of listening to streams of sounds they will see streams of signs –> baby idetifies parts of the signs and learn to segment the sign into stream of signs
- Leads to leadning labels or names for people + objects + events
- After conversations –> baby will be able to sign and understand an unliomited numver of sentances
Blocked lanaguge
Language development is blocked for deaf child who may not be able to acquire spoken lanaguge and does not see sign early
Gestures for hearing babies
For hearing children - early getsures trun into speken words around 1 –> baby learns words and is able to develop more words + thinkning + social skills
Over time - gestures decrease - begins ti talk and speech becomes easier to use (may still use gestures to support spoken language)