Deaf Culture Chapter 4

Most Deaf people learn English through:

• Speech Reading.

• Speaking.

• Reading.

• Listening.

Deaf students can be multilingual ____________.

• Only in two spoken languages.

• Only in two signed languages.

• In both multiple spoken and signed languages.

• In fingerspelling alphabets from different countries

When someone says that a Deaf person’s primary (or dominant) language is ASL, what does that usually mean?

• That the Deaf person prefers to communicate in ASL.

• That the Deaf person has a dominating style of signing.

• That the Deaf person knows several sign languages and picks ASL.

• That the Deaf person learned ASL in primary school.

Deaf people are better than hearing people at:

Language milestones for deaf and hearing babies who have equal, and full access to language are:

• similar, from finger/vocal babbling to forming basic sentences.

• faster with spoken languages, and sign languages catch up later.

• slower with spoken languages, and faster with sign languages.

• very different and cannot be compared.

The role of DeafBlind mentors is to:

• Assist DeafBlind persons in getting housing.

• Provide visual, auditory, and tactile modes of role modeling.

• Provide job parenting for DeafBlind persons.

• Provide training for seeing-eye service dogs.

Deaf individuals have better:

• Peripheral vision than hearing people.

• Tactile ability than hearing people.

• Olfactory sensitivity than hearing people.

• All of the above.

Spoken and sign languages activate what part of the brain?

• The same area of the brain, responsible for language.

• Different parts of the brain, with spoken languages activating the auditory component and sign languages activating the spatial component.

• The same area of the brain, responsible for auditory processing.

• Different parts of the brain, with spoken languages activating the hearing sense, while sign languages activating the visual/tactile sense.

In the United States, when someone says Deaf children struggle with reading and writing, you know that this person operates in the:

Deaf children who have no access to language from birth:

• often invent their own system of gestures to express themselves.

• can communicate telepathically with animals and house pets.

• are moved to state institutions for life-long care.

• are detected by school systems early, and parents are fined.