An electroacoustic body worn apparatus, which typically fits in or behind the wearer's ear, and is designed to amplify and modulate sound for the wearer.
What is Hearing Aids
100
This type of services involves recording ideas and facts that you learn in class to help you remember and use them later.
What is notetaker?
100
A unique system of communication that relies expressing oneself using sign employs a combination of facial expressions, body language, gestures, palm orientations, and hand shapes in the United States.
What is American Sign Language?
100
The world's first and largest technological college for students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
What is the National Institute for the Deaf?(NTID)
200
A method of exchanging digital messages across the internet or other computer networks.
What is email?
200
A person who has been trained to use a system of conventional symbols or gestures made with the hands and body to help people who are deaf, are hard-of-
hearing, or have speech impairments communicate.
What is Interpreter?
200
A technique for understanding unheard speech by interpreting the lip and facial movements of the speaker.
What is Lip-reading?
200
This man became RIT's ninth president on July 1, 2007. after Albert Simone retired.
Who is William D. Destler?
300
Telecommunication device for calls that combine live video and audio for deaf people.
What is Videophone?
300
a speech-to-text system developed at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), a college of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), as a
communication access service option in educational environments.
What is C-print?
300
A sign language system that represents literal English. To make visible everything that is not heard. The drawn out version of ASL.
What is English Sign Language? (ASL)
300
He was the head coach for the RIT Football team during the 1970s.
Who is Tom Coughlin?
400
A surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing.
What is Cochlear Implants?
400
This service is known as communication access real time translation, which is similar to captioning. It is useful for those deaf and hard of hearing people who cannot use interpreters.
What is CART?
400
A system of communication used with among deaf or hard of hearing people. It is a phonemic-based system, which makes traditionally spoken languages accessible by using a small number of hand shapes in different locations near the mouth (representing vowels), as a supplement to lip-reading.
What is cue-speech?
400
This theater opened in 1974. It was named after RIT's first Deaf Professor and founder of the NTID Drama Club.