Through Deaf Eyes Answers

Through Deaf Eyes Through Deaf Eyes Chapters 1-4 1.In CJ’s driving joke why does he pair “deaf and proud” and “deaf and rich (thank you very much)”? *perhaps due to stereotypes, people often assume Deaf are poor, missing something…? –answer in your own words 2. What % of deaf people have hearing parents? 90% 3. About how many Americans are profoundly deaf? 300,000 4. Who, in 1817, opened the first permanent school for the deaf? Gallaudet (with Deaf French teacher Clerc) 5. What did all the early schools for the deaf have in common? All signed 6. Why is Alexander Graham Bell considered to be the boogieman in deaf folklore? Supported eugenics; wanted to outlaw marriage for deaf people, oralism, etc… (any) 7. What two popular American movements did Bell believe in? Eugenics, Nativism 8. Why was Bell against deaf people marrying each other? He thought it would control and eliminate deafness- no deaf babies Through Deaf Eyes Chapters 5-11 1. Why do you think deaf children at oral schools taught each other to sign “on the sly”? that expression means “hidden”- because they were not allowed to sign 2. Why were students at oral schools not allowed to sign? What were their teachers afraid of? That they would never learn English, nor to “speak” nor to “hear” (imagine, oral schools believing a deaf person could “learn to hear”!!!) 3. Why do some successful oral deaf people like Kristen Harmon choose not to use speech, even though she’s easy to understand? Because it causes hearing to assume she can hear 4. Why did the NAD begin making films in 1910? Preserve ASL/share stories, after “talkies” were invented 5. What kinds of activities were available through deaf clubs? All sorts- sports, etc. 6. What is the origin of the huddle in football? Gallaudet deaf football teams! 7. What equipment was required for a deaf person to use a telephone after 1964? TTY (teletypewriter) 8. What makes a house “deaf friendly”? visible, open spaces, lights flashing connected to doorbells, etc. Through Deaf Eyes Chapters 12-14 1. Why were deaf people not supportive of William Stokoe’s research? He was an “outsider”, hearing, no one was researching ASL 2. Why did deaf people believe signing wasn’t a language? They had been taught that lie- they had been looked down on, and did not have any evidence otherwise 3. What are some “movie effects” that are used in ASL? Slow motion, timing, … 4. List at least 3 classifiers Wayne Betts used in his film Vital Signs. What did each classifier represent? Vehicle (3 handshape); person (1 handshape);heart (5-claw handshape) 5. In the play My Third Eye, what do you think the “bucket” scene represents? Torture/bad experience in speech therapy, punishment 6. Why was Children of a Lesser God so important to deaf people? First film with a leading Deaf role that was seen as a smart/regular person, not “dumb” or uneducated 7. Why do you think some Deaf people were offended when Marlee Matlin used her voice at the Oscars? Deaf wanted to see a Deaf representative sign, not speak Through Deaf Eyes Chapters 15-19 1. Name some of the reasons why it was important to the deaf community to have a deaf president at Gallaudet University. - to prove to hearing world that Deaf can do anything, it is a Deaf university, etc. 2. What is “the most celebrated event in deaf history” known as? Deaf President Now 3. Why are cochlear implants not “ an automatic way to pick up spoken language”? Millions of hairs in the cochlea, and only limited number of processors 4. Why did going to the Florida School for the Deaf make Summer Crider want to wear her cochlear implant again? She felt confident about herself, so it was not something that made her feel insecure 5. In the film Equilibrium, Adrean’s coveralls say “ Cyborg”. What is a cyborg and how does it relate to the film’s plot? This captures the feeling of being robot-like- that many Deaf feel they are being “experimented” on, and for profit/money. In the end, he chooses to go back to hearing aids (a dream- since all hearing is gone after implant, you cannot go back to hearing aids). 6. Most deaf children today are mainstreamed into regular public schools. What resources do they have to help them learn? Interpreters, hearing aids, cochlear implants