Through Deaf Eyes

Question 0

Where was the first school for the Deaf?

Answer 0

Hartford, Connecticut

Question 1

What percentage of Deaf people have hearing parents?

Answer 1

90%

Question 2

Who brought the gospel to the Deaf?

Answer 2

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Question 3

Who was the head teacher at the first school for the Deaf and is a legend in the Deaf community?

Answer 3

Laurant Clark

Question 4

What year did Lincoln sign a law for the first college for the Deaf?

Answer 4

1864

Question 5

What was the first college for the Deaf?

Answer 5

Gallaudet University

Question 6

Inventor of the telephone

Answer 6

Alexander graham bell

Question 7

Job of Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 7

Taught Deaf children in a day school in Boston

Question 8

Oral method

Answer 8

Teaching Deaf people to speak and lip read

Question 9

“Dark ages” for the Deaf in America?

Answer 9

The initializing of the oral method. Teachers became scarcer, students were forbidden to sign.

Question 10

Sign language was borrowed from where?

Answer 10

France

Question 11

Name sign?

Answer 11

A sign that ties in a particular trait of you and stands as your name.

Question 12

How do you receive a name sign?

Answer 12

A Deaf person gets to know you, and uses a trait specific to you.

Question 13

What is a difficulty that Deaf people run into when they start to speak?

Answer 13

They have trouble learning words and not learning other things.

Question 14

What school had the first Deaf football team?

Answer 14

Gallaudet

Question 15

One way hearing though they could “heal” Deaf

Answer 15

Aviation: Deaf person did loops in an airplane

Question 16

Audiogram is?

Answer 16

A test that measures the ability to detect sound

Question 17

What was the device that Deaf people used to type to other deaf people?

Answer 17

TTY

Question 18

How do Deaf people know when the doorbell is ringing?

Answer 18

Flashing lights

Question 19

Does every region have same signs?

Answer 19

No, there are different styles and dialects

Question 20

The movie that opened hearing people’s eyes to the first main Deaf actress?

Answer 20

“Children of a Lesser God”

Question 21

Main actress in “Children of a Lesser God”?

Answer 21

Marlee Matlin

Question 22

Why was there a protest at Gallaudet?

Answer 22

A hearing president was chosen instead of a Deaf one. The students felt that there should be a Deaf president.

Question 23

Name of the movement at Gallaudet?

Answer 23

Deaf President Now

Question 24

First Deaf President at Gallaudet

Answer 24

Irving King Jordan

Question 25

Bypasses the ear and sends electrical impulses to the auditory nerve

Answer 25

Cochlear implant

Question 26

What does a Cochlear implant do for Deaf people?

Answer 26

It gives Deaf people the ability to “hear” but does not exactly replicate hearing. They cannot completely connect with the hearing world, but it helps understanding in a hearing environment.

Question 27

What percentage of Deaf students go to a normal public school?

Answer 27

85%

Question 28

What does mainstream mean?

Answer 28

Surrounded by hearing people, not segregated in a Deaf school. Sometimes Deaf people are treated differently or teased because they don’t “fit in.”