Deaf Culture Quiz 1

5 myths about ASL

1) It is a signing form of english 2) asl is only capable of communciating concrete ideas 3) ASL is a universal language 4) hearing people invited ASL 5) ASL has alwasy be the offical langauge of deaf in teh US

When was the first deaf school established?

1817 in connecticut, called the American Asylum for the Education of the Dead and Dumb

Deaf culture became popular when

1980's

demographics of Deaf

360 million people worldwide that have a disabiling hearing loss \ 17 percent of the us popoulation or 36 million adults report some degree of hearing loss roughly 2 to 3 of every 1000 children in teh US are born deaf or hard of hearing

About ____ percent of deaf and hard of hearing students have additional disabilite that impact learning

40 percent

how long do choclear implnats usually last?

5 to 10 years

Deaf children or Hearing parents

96 % of deaf children are born to hearing parents, these parents are often shcoked when they find out their new babay has not passed the hearing screning test done at the hospial. some parents learn they usually do not master it but the kdi will learn baout Deaf culture from their teachers, summer camps, atteding Deaf festivals

Disadvantage for public schools

A disadvangtge of publisc schools ofr deaf studetns is that deaf studetns may be isolated in small programs without a group of language peers lack or resources disadvantge instructorion is through an interpeter they suffer isolation and social regjection

the bilingual approach includes the ASL/ English bilingual program, this approach uses __

ASL as the language of instruction and teaches englihs as a second langugae

There are two basic programs that parents can explore

ASL/English bilingual apporaches (two languages) or monolingual approach

what is an audiologist

An audilogist is a professional who specilizes in detecting hearing levels and proposing different types of accomddation s

What is CART

Computer Assisting Real Time Capturing

What are the preferred term to call people

Deaf and hard of hearing

people who may not hera or speak the same way as hearing poeple are called

Deaf, deaf, deaf blind, hard of hearing, late deafned, or deaf mute

hard of hearing individuals

These are indivudals with mild or moderate hearing levels who will rely more on what they can hear with hearing aids they often will want to be hearing and not different from their freinds and familes

Deaf with a capital represents

What we see as the culture of Deaf people. these people use sign langauge and share beleifts, values, customs, and experinc ethat create a strong bond and group identity

contact signing is

a natural way of signing that comes about where Deaf communites who sue sign langauge meet hearing communicted who use spoken and written english

Cued speech

a system that uses eight handshapes called cues to desginate the consonants of enlguhs with four hand positions around the mouth to show vowels.

Hearing aids are used to what

amplify and channel sound into the inner ear

Cochlear implants do not what?

amplify sounds, instead they are transmitted directly to the auditory nerve

d =

anythign to do with deafness

D =

anything that has to do with culture

Sim Com Simultaneous Communication

are the easiest communcioatn modes for hearing people who are not fluent in ASL because they can fall back on their spoken enlguhs and writing skills to compensate for their developing ASL skills.

many peole who call themselves deaf rely on

auditory assistance devices, prefer to use spoken language and tend to socialize more often with hearing people than with deaf people

Negative lables for Deaf people that they find to be offensive are

auditory handicap hearing impaired hearing handicapped Deaf Mute Prelingually Deaf Deaf and Dumb

The deaf culuture is a culture that people are either _____ into or join later after _____

born into or join later after meeting culturally DEaf peole

Deaf peolple are isolated - -

by being with all hearing people deaf person with hearing aid is looked down upon sometimes by others in the Deaf commnity

Deaf Gain

deaf gain is a more recent concept than Deafhood the term Deaf gain makes the point that there is a gain to being deaf

the effectivness of the hearing aid depends on the

deaf person's residual hearing in other words, how much hearing he or she has

examples of external factors are

diseases like meningitis, premature births, fetal alcohol syndrome, or simply becoming elderly

genetic causes for deafness

genes that are inherited and gene mutations are the cause of deafness in appromiztley more than 50 percent of babies born deaf

_________ refers to people who have a slight to moderate hearing loss

hard of hearing

_______ often benefit from the use of hearign aids

hard of hearing people

Total Communication or TC is a

philipsophy started by Ray Holcomb

culturally deaf is a

positive gain or attribute they don't care abotu the heairng world at all, their deafness does not need to be fixed

one way to degine culture is

that is includes the values, belifes, and practice that guide the group in indivudla and social development

culture

the beliefs, values, rules, and customs that exist within a group of people who share a common language and environment

postlingually deaf

those who already speak and hear a language before they became deaf are post bilingually deaf

similarites of Deaf culture

using sign language, beign upfront as a Deaf person, being comfortable with other peole, and wanting to interact with them

People of the Eye

using the eye instead shifts the focus from hearing loss to deaf people as visual beings

Deaf with a Captial D is

culturally acceptable

91 or higher db

profound hearing level

true or fasle, 96% of deaf children are born to hearing parents

true

Being Deaf is a positive way of life true or false?

ture

What is a audigram used for?

various reason such as to qualify for the deaf olympics, receving vocational rehabilitaion, and social security benefits or being eligible for admission at an educational institution or program serving deaf students

What movemenent started in 1988 resulted in teh first deaf preseident at gaulludet university

Deaf President Now or DPN

Deafooh

created by Paddy Ladd defines Deafhood as a Deaf consciouness concpet that involves processsing and reconstructuring of Deaf traditions realted to becoming and staying Deaf

Providing the Deaf child with early access to ASL and spoken language ______ the risk for language deprivation and ______ the acquisition of language durign the sensitibe period of first language delivery

decreases accelerates

Do's and Don't

don't voice at the same time don't yell or throw objects to get attention do walk through a sign conversation don't jump into a conversation like you are a member of the Deaf community don't act like you are fluent in ASL if you are not don't interpete if you cant' do ease drop on a sign conversation don't leave a deaf person out of the convesation with hearing people don't assume that a Deaf person is less intelligent

What causes changes in hearing levels: there are two categories:

hearing loss before/ at birth or congential loss and after birth (Acquired loss)

Hearing members in Deaf families

hearing sibilings, spouses may connect with the deaf community espically is they are comforbtale using sign langauge

Bimodal/ bilingual apporac, one goal of this program is to

help a child develop a visual langauge while develpoing spoek language to his or her maxium capacity

When did the term Deaf culture become popular?

in the 1980's after the book Deaf in America

Deaf Ethniicty

is support of a Deaf Ethnicity, the argument is that Deaf people have a collective name (Deaf) a shared langauge (ASL) feelings of community, behavior norms, distinct values, culturre knwoldege and customers

advantage to general education

is the content may be approprialtely challenging if it is accessible to the child and if the child is functioning on grade level

What is Deaf world

it encompasses Deaf people who are common characteristics or pursuits as part of a particular way of life that involves social networks

what was the importance of the DPN movement

it showed the power of the deaf community to get together and advocate for significant change. It has also created stron symbolic visibility for the deaf community

Deaf children score ____ on standard academic testing and as they move up they fall behind on academic levels to hearing monolinugiual children

lower

TC can include ASL thus it can be considered a bilingual langue, however is may also include

manual codes of english along with fingerspelling, reading, qriting, destures and speech

Deaf people feel that the word hearing impaired is what

means something is wrong, broken, impaired, or not working

41-55 db

moderate hearing loss

56-70 db

moderate server

10-15 db

normal heaing

iceburg

observable: behaviors and practices - charactersitics which are apparent to the casual observer

What are the two perspectives on the cochlear implant?

one persepctive is that cochlear implnats uspport assess to the hearing world and help with hearing and spekaing the other persepctive is tat cochlear implants hurt the deaf community because the focus is on hearing and speaking and not sign lanaguage, which is visiual and accessible

reasons why deaf kids schore lower on standard acadmeic testing

one reason for the gap is that it takes longer for deaf children to learn school content due to their lack of early acess, which results in langauge depreivation another reason is that deaf student may have difficulty with testing and may need accommodations

Deaf people who identigy with Deaf culture want to be labled as people who

primarily use vision, sometimes supported by audition (through hearing aids or cochlear implants) to communicate and interact with others

What is conductive loss

problems in the outer and middle ear that cause heating loss may result in what is called conductive loss

problems happneing inside the ear or within the auditory nerve may result in what is called a

sensorineural loss

71-90 db

severe hearing loss

16-25 db

slight hearing loss

48 million american have

some sort of trouble hearing

what are the placment options for school for deaf kids

speical shcools or charter schools that are made for the deaf or education in the normal public schools

the monoloingual apporach includes using

spoken language only

Deaf Space in classrooms, what are the features

the best classroom seating arrangment is the semicircle where the teacher and student have open visual access to each other's signing.

What happened at teh internatinla congress of eduaction of Deaf in Milan?

the decision was to confirm the spread of spoken langauge education in schools for the deaf

Major advantage of seperate schools for the deaf are

the full access to ASL and Dead culture by peers and adults seperate schools have a large umber of studetn who can be grouped according to age, ability level, and language level they have certified teachers who casn sgin and instutation is from teacher to studetn instead of through a interpeter

Descriptions of Deafhood

the process indivudals undergo to accept themsevles as being deaf has to do with the positive of being Deaf Personal journey to understand themeselves as Deaf persons to evaluate themselves and liberate themesleces from oppression by hearing people

how does a cochlear impnat work

there is an internal part (coli) that is surgically implanted in the cochlea (inside the inner ear) and directly attached to the auditory nerve. the implant has electrodes that allow external sounds to skip the cochlea into electrical impuses that contravel through the adutory nerce which then sends singal to teh brain much like people who hear

late deafened indivudals

these are indivudals who became deaf after the age of 18 due to illness, sustained or acture exposire to workplace noise, accident, etc

Deaf children of Culturally Deaf parents

these indivuials tend to be seen as the inheritors of Deaf culture, they ften grow up immersed in the Deaf cultural community and using sign langugae some Deaf parents do see spoken languges as important so that the children can be both bilignual and biculutral. This makes is easier for them to interact with both hearing and deaf cultural groups

Manual codes of english or MCF

they are not languages but codes to teach English they combine ASL sign and invented english sings in english word order

how to Deaf people of Deaf culture view beign deaf

they tend to view being Deaf as a positive attriubute or as a gain, not as somehting negative or pateological that needs to be fixed

how to many people view deaf people list them all

they view them as disabled, and unable to communicate with other hearing peole deaf people are limited in what they can learn in school and in the kind of jobs they can do they see deaf people as isolated

prelingually deaf are

those who have spoken or heard langauge before they became deaf, this applies to all people who were born deaf

acquired loss

those with a acquired loss became deaf due to external factors not related to genetics

Deaf people call people who can hear and speak "hearing or hearing people or hearing world referring to spaces populated by hearing people true or false

true

if a deaf child comes from hearing parents they are most likely to be assimilated into the hearing world true or false

true

the term deaf with a lowercase d refers to indivudauls

whose hearing loss makes it very hard or impossible to understand spoken language trhough hearing along, with or without the use of auditor devices

deaf community has been around for

years