Deaf Culture and Community Chapter 1

What is the definition of ‘culture’?

What is Deaf culture?

Can someone join/add Deaf culture to their life later?

• Yes

• No

According to the World Health Organization (2019), approximately how many people worldwide have a "disabling" hearing loss?

• 466 million

• 17 percent of the world population.

• 1 to 2 out of every 1,000 children.

• more than 600,000 people.

What are CODAs in the context of the Deaf-World?

Culturally Deaf people prefer to be called:

• Deaf and/or hard-of-hearing.

• Hearing impaired.

• Handicapped.

• Deaf and Dumb.

DeafBlind individuals have developed ______________ as a means of bringing their community together as well as reaching out to those who are not DeafBlind.

Black Deaf students were unfairly relegated to separate schools for the Deaf until what law was passed?

• a. American with Disabilities Act was passed.

• b. after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision

• c. IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

• d. Civil Rights Act

When and how did the term ‘Deaf culture’ become more widespread?

• In the late 1980s when Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture (Padden & Humphries) was published.

• In the early 1970s when the Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles was published.

• In the early 1990s when the Americans with Disabilities Act passed as a federal law.

• In the late 1960s when the Advisory Committee on the Education of the Deaf: The Babbidge Report came out.

What is the percentage of deaf people/children who have hearing parents as opposed to deaf people/children who have deaf parents?