Orientation to Deafness
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- 4 Things to get a deaf persons attention:
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flash lights - blink for speaker, flash for emergency
body tapping - in appropriate places
hand waving - depends on distance
stomping feet - wood floors for vibration - Why are goodbyes longer for deaf people than for hearing?
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work all week with no communication
no time with friends during the week - Whats the difference between a TTY and a TTD?
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TTY - teletypewriter developed by a deaf person
TTD - telecommunication device developed by the hearing for the deaf -
Who said this?
"Men that are deaf are in all cases dumb; that is they can make vocal sounds, but they canot speak." - aristotle
- Who founded the first deaf school in Virginia in 1813?
- John Braidwood
- This schools name use to be Conneticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb Persons in 1818. Which school was it the first in the U.S.
- American School for the Deaf. The 1st.
- Instruction for the Deaf and Dumb was located in which city and state?
- New York, NY in 1818.
- When was Pennsylvania Institution opened for deaf children?
- 1820
- What school was the only school for the deaf that was supported by the state?
- Kentucky Asylum for the Tuition of the Deaf and Dumb
- What was the leading causes of deafness?
- spinal meningitis
- Why was there a decline in Deaf teachers from 1850-1927?
- oralism was being taught in all the schools, it was called the dark ages. AGBell was trying to eradicate sign language.
- What happened in Texas, April 1887?
- A deaf school hired a deaf black teacher
- Why was the telegraph invented?
- so morse could communicate with deaf wife
- "What Hath God Wrought?" What is this line famous for?
- first thing typed on the telegraph
- Who did bought the telegraph from Morse?
- the military
- Who was Amos Kendall? And what did he do for Gallaudet?
- he was Morse's financial adviser. He donated the land for Gallaudett.
- Who was Erastus Smith?
- a deaf soldier who helped troops in the mexico war. became famous and is very famous in Texas.
- In 1939, this state school admitted deaf and blind students.
- Virginia
- Who was the man who helped establish a school for the deaf in Illinois?
- Orville H. Browning
- In 1846, this state had the only school for the deaf in a log cabin. What is the name?
- Georgia
- Why were southern deaf schools forced to close during the Cival War?
- teachers went off to war
- What was the only Southern Deaf School the remained opened during the war?
- Kentucky
- Who was Joshua Davis and were was he from?
- a deaf farm boy and he went to school in cave springs
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How did a General save Joshuas life?
by fingerspelling or knowing cultural knowledge - cultural knowledge
- How did deaf or hard of hearing men get into the army?
- there were no doctors check back then, if they wanted to join, they just smiled and noded, got a gun, uniform and was ready to go.
- Who signed the charter to grant college degrees to Deaf persons?
- Abraham Lincoln
- Where was the first oral school in 1867? And is it still used today?
- New York, and yes k-8 have to use it, when you are in high school, you can you use sign.
- What type of School is Clarke in Massachusetts?
- Oralism. No sign at all, even 2003
- Where was the first NAD convention held and why?
- in Cincinnati, becasuse the the president lived there.
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What did these three men combat?
Edmund Booth
Edwin Hodgson
Robert P. McGregor - oralsim
- In Milan Italy, What resolution was passed that affected deaf people?
- oralism was to be taught to the deaf
- Who was John Flournoy?
- was advocate of a "deaf-mute" colony
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Who was the first deaf and blind person to be educated in this country?
Where? - Laura Bridgman. Perkins Institution
- What famous authour used Laura as a character in his book?
- Charles Dickens
- What was AG Bell opposed of with Deaf people?
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mixed marriages
opposition of deaf teachers - Why was AG Bell opposed of deaf teachers and deaf people in general?
- he wanted deaf people to be oral - deaf teachers were not good role models. He wanted hearing to be the same. If you teach them oralism, they will be like man.
- AG Bells Wife was deaf T/F
- True - by accident, but was oral , so was her mother. Bells wife did not want to be deaf and was rude to deaf people. She would not use sign at all.
- People read Darwins Evolution theory and thought of deaf people as animals T/F
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True- they describe sign language like animals.
they described oralism like evolution. - What is a linotype?
- deaf printer
- the linotype took jobs away from the hearing peole and gave the to the deaf T/F
- False - the linotype taught deaf students a trade. the deaf schools added them to the printing departments.
- What year was the automobile invented?
- 1900
- What school provided the first form of insurance for deaf and other deaf men?
- Michigan school for the Deaf.
- What was the name of the first insurance the deaf created for themselves?
- Fraternal Society of the Deaf
- Where were they located?
- Illinois?
- What year did the Fraternal Society of the Deaf open its membership to women and children?
- 1955
- What was the name of the first nursing home for the deaf? Who was its founder?
- Gallaudet Home for the Age and Infirm Deaf. Reverend Thomas Thomas Gallaudet.
- How many states refused deaf drivers lincenses around 1920?
- 4
- Who invented shorthand?
- John R. Gregg
- Who invented a device for holding an ironing table?
- Thomas J. Browning
- Who created the first athletic schedule book? What school was he from?
- Wesley Lauritsen. Minnesota School for the Deaf
- Who invented wake-up alarms, doorbell lights, and bed vibrators?
- emerson romero