deafness 2

Aristotle believed

-children who were born deaf were incapable of reason

-People who are Deaf are one of the few cultural groups where language is primarily passed from peer to peer

Why was Gallaudet important

considered the lack of language for Deaf people morally alarming because they could not access the community and develop a personal connection

Who graduated from Yale in 1850

Thomas Hopkins Gallaude

Who made ASL recongizable as a language

William Stokoe(American linguist) and colleague’s study in the 1960’s

Leader of the Oralist movement

Horace Mann

Horace Mann thought

-children who are Deaf were secluded from the mainstream community by using sign language, ASL was impractical, speech was humanizing, ASL was crude

Cultural insensitivity

- Most people are unaware of the psychosocial implications of the different types of deafness.

 Hearing individuals fail to appreciate how being hearing relates to power and privilege.

 Hearing individuals without adequate cultural self-awareness fail to realize how biases influence and impede the ability to serve people who are Deaf.