Through Deaf Eyes Flashcards
(29 cards)
Where was the first school for the Deaf?
Hartford, Connecticut
What percentage of Deaf people have hearing parents?
90%
Who brought the gospel to the Deaf?
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
Who was the head teacher at the first school for the Deaf and is a legend in the Deaf community?
Laurant Clark
What year did Lincoln sign a law for the first college for the Deaf?
1864
What was the first college for the Deaf?
Gallaudet University
Inventor of the telephone
Alexander graham bell
Job of Alexander Graham Bell
Taught Deaf children in a day school in Boston
Oral method
Teaching Deaf people to speak and lip read
“Dark ages” for the Deaf in America?
The initializing of the oral method. Teachers became scarcer, students were forbidden to sign.
Sign language was borrowed from where?
France
Name sign?
A sign that ties in a particular trait of you and stands as your name.
How do you receive a name sign?
A Deaf person gets to know you, and uses a trait specific to you.
What is a difficulty that Deaf people run into when they start to speak?
They have trouble learning words and not learning other things.
What school had the first Deaf football team?
Gallaudet
One way hearing though they could “heal” Deaf
Aviation: Deaf person did loops in an airplane
Audiogram is?
A test that measures the ability to detect sound
What was the device that Deaf people used to type to other deaf people?
TTY
How do Deaf people know when the doorbell is ringing?
Flashing lights
Does every region have same signs?
No, there are different styles and dialects
The movie that opened hearing people’s eyes to the first main Deaf actress?
“Children of a Lesser God”
Main actress in “Children of a Lesser God”?
Marlee Matlin
Why was there a protest at Gallaudet?
A hearing president was chosen instead of a Deaf one. The students felt that there should be a Deaf president.
Name of the movement at Gallaudet?
Deaf President Now
