Deaf Culture and ASL Flashcards

Flashcards about Deaf Culture and ASL

Person-First Language

Emphasizes 'a person with…' rather than 'a ____ person'

Deaf (cultural)

Part of a culture/community; contrasts with deaf (medical diagnosis)

Hearing Impaired (educational)

Requires modifications and accommodations

Mild Sensorineural Hearing Loss Bilaterally (medical)

Example of a medical diagnosis of hearing loss

Aristotle's View on Deafness (355 BC)

Stated, 'those who are born deaf all become senseless and incapable of reason'

Rudolf Agricola (1521 AD)

Advocated that Deaf could read and write & ability of speech was separate from thought.

Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576)

First physician to recognize Deaf ability to reason, challenged Aristotle. Could be taught using written symbols with items.

John Pablo de Bonet (1620)

Published the first sign language book.

John Bulwer (1648)

Published first English books on Deaf education and language, including Philocopus (Deaf and Dumbe Man's Friend) & Chirologia (Naturall Language of the Hand).

American Sign Language

A grammatically complex language with different structures and semantics, NOT a signed version of English, and not universal.

Abbe Charles Michel de L'Epee (1755)

Founded the first school for the Deaf in Paris.

Samuel Heinicke (1775 to 1778)

Taught speechreading and speech, establishing the first school of the Deaf in Germany.

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Met Alice Cogswell and traveled to Europe to study Deaf education, eventually bringing Laurent Clerc to America.

Laurent Marie Clerc

Deaf sign language instructor from France who co-founded the first school for the Deaf in America.

Connecticut Asylum at Harford for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons (1817)

The nation's first Deaf school, now called American School for the Deaf.

Edward Miner Gallaudet

Son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, first president of Gallaudet University.

Alexander Graham Bell

Proponent of oralism, against manual communication, and believer/supporter of eugenics.

National Association of the Deaf (NAD)

Created in 1880 to protect Deaf individuals.

George W. Veditz

7th president of NAD, led grassroots campaign that repealed a law barring Deaf individuals from U.S. government jobs.

William Stokoe

Hearing professor at Gallaudet who stated sign language was its OWN language.

National Theatre of the Deaf (1967)

Preserving Deaf culture through storytelling.

American Deaf Culture

Learned behaviors of a group of deaf people who have their own language (ASL), values, rules and traditions.

Bi/Bi Approach

Learn ASL first, then English

Relating to Culturally Deaf People: DO's

Be facially expressive, attempt to use sign language, define by abilities, be conscious of hearing loss terminology, get attention by tapping, blinking lights, or waving.

Relating to Culturally Deaf People: DON'Ts

Break eye contact, take offense at direct questions, touch hands while signing, talk with a hearing person in front of a Deaf person without signing, refer to the Deaf as hearing-impaired, use the term 'oral'.