ASL III Midterm

Initialized Sign

uses the first letter of a persons name

Descriptive

Based on a unique or personal characteristic

locations for name signs

upper/lower head, mid-level space, dominant. hand on passive shoulder, chestor head, non-dominant hand in various positions.

what was the milan conference?

A multi-country conference held in 1880 that resulted in a ban on the use of sign language in education for the deaf.

was was the result of the milan conference?

ASL in schools for the deaf was banned.

who was the only deaf delegate at the milan conference?

James Denison

How many representatives attended the conference?

164

Where was the Milan conference

Milan, Italy.

The conference was represented by people who were known ______.

Oralists

What two countries were opposed to the ban of sign language?

The United States and Great Britian

What year was the ban lifted?

2010

Oralism

teaching deaf people how to communicate by lip reading and speaking.

KDES

Kendall Demonstration Elementary school

Where and what grade level is kdes?

washington dc, k-8th grade.

MSSD

Model Secondary School for the Deaf.

Where and what grade level is mssd

washington dc, 9-12th

NTID at RIT

National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology.

CSUN

California State University at Northridge.

What is significant about CSUN

Nationwide largest population of Deaf and HOH students at a mainstream institution.

LEAD-K

Language, equality, and acquisition for Deaf kids.

What is LEAD-K

A kindergarten readiness campaign where we assert that language deprivation or delays between ages 0-5 is the main cause of deaf children’s eventual reading, academic , and social struggles. (Nyle Demarco)

States that passed LeadK

cali, hawaii, oregon, south dakota, georgia, louisiana

Mainstream education

Public school

Residential school

Have deaf role models, around kids with similar disabilities, and you can learn the culture there

self-contained classroom

All deaf and HOH class in a public school

freak shows

where deaf people were showed off in the early 1800’s

What is the difference between accessibility and accommodation

accessibility are things that are already in place for people with disabilities, accommodations have to be brought in or requested

eugenics

the belief that the human population could be improved through having a more superior breed of humans and the inferior humans be removed or sterilized was called

characteristics of a superhuman?

white

blonde hair

blue eyes

tall

no disability

what did the architectural barrier act of 1968 require?

certain buildings acquired with Federal funds be accessible to and usable by handicapped persons

ADA

Americans with Disabilities Act

What year was the ADA signed?

1990

who was the president when the ADA was signed?

George W. Bush

the ADA was a civil rights law that required employees to provide ______ to employees with disabilities and had accessibility requirements for public accommodation.

Reasonable Accommodation, meaning adjustments to the workplace or job duties to allow them to perform their job effectively

universal design

designs that benefit everyone rather than needing adaptions. (design for all, barrier-free, or universal design.)

Architectural Barriers Act

1968, johnson

civil rights and desegregation

1960s

Rehab Act

1973

Subtitles

assume viewer can hear but not understand the language.

Captions

include all audio - language, sound affects, music, etc.

Open Captions

permanently included in video, not removed or turned off

Closed Captions

need to turn it on using remote or menu button

Television Decoder Circuitry Act

1990, Tvs 13 inches or bigger include decoder chip - analog

TTY

Teletext Typewriter

TRS

Telecommunications Relay Service, Connecticut, 1974

VCO

Voice Carryover

HCO

Hearing Carryover

VRS

Video Relay Service

TVRS

Trilingual Video Relay Service, three languages at same time

CRPD

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities