ASL
The second major identifying factor for members of the Deaf community.
What is manual languages?
The effort by the dominant society (the hearing) to coerce, force or manipulate the non-dominant society (the Deaf) to conform to behaviors, expectations and social mores of the dominant society.
What is Audism?
Schools that accept both day-students and residential students.
What are schools for the deaf?
Found in linguistic, social, political and audiological sameness.
What are cultural behaviors?
What is Deafness?
The most widely used and known and used sign language in the world
What is American Sign Language (ASL)?
Usually the only Deaf members of their families.
What are members of the Deaf community?
Live at home and attend school during the day.
What are day-students?
What is length of eye contact?
Being viewed as Deaf.
What is a complete part of their identity?
Locations ASL is most commonly used.
What is the United States and Canada?
A way that members of the Deaf community are oppressed.
What is denied access to signed languages?
Students that live in dorms or cottages with other deaf students, overseen by counselors and house parents.
What are residential students?
Ways to get attention of a deaf person.
What are visual and tactile methods?
Not being able to hear sounds is an issue for Deaf people.
What is false, only if hearing people say it is?
The Deaf Community.
What is linguistic minority?
Deaf children spend much of their childhood visiting.
What are doctors and therapists?
What are other Deaf people?
Who is Stewart (1991)?
Resulted in generations of Deaf people who could not acquire a natural language and therefore and education.
What is oralism?