Deaf Jeopardy!

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Bilingual-Bicultural Issues

100

Within a decade of this event, the fraction of teachers who were Deaf fell from one-half to one-quarter; by World War I it was down to a fifth... Nowadays the fraction is about one-tenth.

A) Bilingual Education Act

B) Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf

C) Milan Conference of 1880

C) Milan Conference of 1880

100

“The congress, considering the incontestable superiority of speech over signs, for restoring deaf-mutes to social life and for giving them greater facility in language, declares that the method of articulation should have the preference over that of signs in the instruction and education of the deaf and dumb.”

A) Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf

B) Milan Conference of 1880

C) Education for all Handicapped Children Act

B) Milan Conference of 1880

100

“The Deaf children who do best in school are -- note it well -- the fortunate ______ percent who learned sign language as a native language from their Deaf parents.”

A) ten

B) ninety

C) forty

A) ten

100

Which are two of the goals of bilingual education?

A) to enable Deaf children to become linguistically competent

B) to promote the oral method for Deaf children

C) to provide Deaf pupils with a positive sense of their own identity

D) to promote lipreading skills for Deaf children

A & C

200

In what year was the first ASL dictionary published (Extra credit, who was the author?)

A) 1890

B) 1965

C) 1900

B) 1965, William Stokoe

200

"I am not less but more when I recognize that there are other languages, manual and oral, on par with my own. This humility is the enemy of forced assimilation; it is the friend of bilingualism and mutual respect; it is the premise of interpreting."

A) Jean-Marc Itard

B) Robert McGregor

C) Harlan Lane

C) Harlan Lane

200

"An educational disaster has thus resulted from using English to instruct Deaf children: the average twelfth-grade Deaf student reads at fourth-grade level and does arithmetic (his best subject) at _____ level."

A) sixth-grade

B) eigth-grade

C) tenth-grade

A) sixth-grade

200

“In the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, Americans institutionalized the premise that children are best educated, transitionally at least, in their most fluent language. The laws of most states soon came to require that schools...must offer a portion of their instruction in that language.” Why didn’t this help Deaf people?

It has never been possible to add ASL to this list.

300

The recognition that: "regular classrooms simply would not be a suitable setting for the education of many handicapped children" was stated in the ______, but its recommendation that providing alternate placements was best was largely ignored by educators.

A) Education for all Handicapped Children Act

B) Bilingual Education Act

C) Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf

A) Education for all Handicapped Children Act

300

"Considering that the simultaneous use of signs and speech has the disadvantage of injuring speech, lipreading, and precision of ideas, the congress declares that the pure oral method ought to be preferred."

A) Milan Conference of 1880

B) Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf

C) Charter of the Rights of the Deaf

A) Milan Conference of 1880

300

In one of Dr.Susan Gregory's recent interview studies, the researchers found that one in _ did not have adequate linguistic skills in any language to participate in an interview, and that % used British Sign Language as their preferred or only language.

A) five, 10%

B) seven, 38%

C) twenty, 50%

B) seven, 38%

300

The notion that arose from the work of Cummins, amongst others, that “knowledge of L1 (the first language) British Sign Language, can be transferred to and facilitate the development of L2 (the second language) English” is known as:

A) Charter of the Rights of the Deaf

B) the linguistic interdependence model

C) the ten step model

B) the linguistic interdependence model

400

At this event in 1890, the following exchange occurred: "A teacher in a pure oral school who understands the sign language is out of place... He might demoralize the school in a very short time..."
"I would like to hear from a Deaf educator."

A) Charter of the Rights of the Deaf

B) Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf

C) Education for all Handicapped Children Act

B) Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf

400

The first president of the National Association of the Deaf state "Worst of all, these (people) ignore the Deaf themselves in their senseless and mischievous propaganda against signs. Professing to have no object in view but the benefit of the Deaf, they exhibit an utter contempt for the opinions, the wishes, the desires of the Deaf. And why should we not be consulted in a matter of such vital interest to us? This is a question no man has yet answered satisfactorily"

A) Robert McGregor

B) Harlan Lane

C) Laurent Clerc

A) Robert McGregor

400

In order to facilitate the development of BSL and to teach it effectively, we need ________________, but this needs to be based on research which currently does not exist. We need to know [what the normal process of BSL development in children is] in order to develop a curriculum to stretch BSL skills and to correct errors appropriately.

a BSL curriculum

400

Which is NOT suggested as criteria for bilingual education?

A) qualified deaf teachers of the deaf

B) qualified oral teachers of the deaf

C) BSL material

D) explicit approaches to using BSL to develop reading and writing skills

B) qualified oral teachers of the deaf

500

The British National Union of the Deaf have formally charged their government with a violation of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. This document asserts that “Deaf schools are being effectively forced to close and therefore children of one ethnic/linguistic minority group. that is, deaf people, are being forcibly transferred to another group, that is hearing people”

A) Education for all Handicapped Children Act

B) Milan Conference

C) Charter of the Rights of the Deaf

C) Charter of the Rights of the Deaf

500

This resident physician at the National Institute for the Deaf in Paris vilified sign language as "that barbaric language without conjunctions, without any of the words taht permit us to express abstract ideas, which provides only a vague collection of adjectives, nouns, and a few verbs, without determinate time and always in the infinitive"

A) Giulio Tarra

B) Laurent Clerc

C) Jean-Marc Itard

C) Jean-Marc Itard

500

“The Open University research suggested that pupils achieved good communication in sign language, but…” (complete the sentence)

not all were developing complex structures necessary for high level education.

500

Our research at the Open University suggested that for the pupils it was easier, at the early stages, to focus on _ rather than _. Please describe their possible explanation.

writing; reading; For a deaf child whose first language is BSL, writing allows them to think in their first language and control the use of the second as they choose the elements to be written down. Reading, on the other hand, means having to work from their second language, where they have no direct control over the material and then translate back to their first language.

Within a decade of this event, the fraction of teachers who were Deaf fell from one-half to one-quarter; by World War I it was down to a fifth... Nowadays the fraction is about one-tenth. A) Bilingual Education Act B) Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf C) Milan Conference of 1880

C) Milan Conference of 1880

B) Milan Conference of 1880

“The Deaf children who do best in school are -- note it well -- the fortunate ______ percent who learned sign language as a native language from their Deaf parents.” A) ten B) ninety C) forty

A) ten

Which are two of the goals of bilingual education? A) to enable Deaf children to become linguistically competent B) to promote the oral method for Deaf children C) to provide Deaf pupils with a positive sense of their own identity D) to promote lipreading skills for Deaf children

A & C

In what year was the first ASL dictionary published (Extra credit, who was the author?) A) 1890 B) 1965 C) 1900

B) 1965, William Stokoe

C) Harlan Lane

"An educational disaster has thus resulted from using English to instruct Deaf children: the average twelfth-grade Deaf student reads at fourth-grade level and does arithmetic (his best subject) at _____ level." A) sixth-grade B) eigth-grade C) tenth-grade

A) sixth-grade

It has never been possible to add ASL to this list.

A) Education for all Handicapped Children Act

A) Milan Conference of 1880

B) seven, 38%

B) the linguistic interdependence model

B) Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf

A) Robert McGregor

a BSL curriculum

Which is NOT suggested as criteria for bilingual education? A) qualified deaf teachers of the deaf B) qualified oral teachers of the deaf C) BSL material D) explicit approaches to using BSL to develop reading and writing skills

B) qualified oral teachers of the deaf

C) Charter of the Rights of the Deaf

C) Jean-Marc Itard

“The Open University research suggested that pupils achieved good communication in sign language, but…” (complete the sentence)

not all were developing complex structures necessary for high level education.

Our research at the Open University suggested that for the pupils it was easier, at the early stages, to focus on _________ rather than _________. Please describe their possible explanation.

Within a decade of this event, the fraction of teachers who were Deaf fell from one-half to one-quarter; by World War I it was down to a fifth... Nowadays the fraction is about one-tenth.

A) Bilingual Education Act

B) Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf

C) Milan Conference of 1880

“The Deaf children who do best in school are -- note it well -- the fortunate ______ percent who learned sign language as a native language from their Deaf parents.”

A) ten

B) ninety

C) forty

Which are two of the goals of bilingual education?

A) to enable Deaf children to become linguistically competent

B) to promote the oral method for Deaf children

C) to provide Deaf pupils with a positive sense of their own identity

D) to promote lipreading skills for Deaf children

In what year was the first ASL dictionary published (Extra credit, who was the author?)

A) 1890

B) 1965

C) 1900

"An educational disaster has thus resulted from using English to instruct Deaf children: the average twelfth-grade Deaf student reads at fourth-grade level and does arithmetic (his best subject) at _____ level."

A) sixth-grade

B) eigth-grade

C) tenth-grade

Which is NOT suggested as criteria for bilingual education?

A) qualified deaf teachers of the deaf

B) qualified oral teachers of the deaf

C) BSL material

D) explicit approaches to using BSL to develop reading and writing skills

Our research at the Open University suggested that for the pupils it was easier, at the early stages, to focus on _ rather than _. Please describe their possible explanation.