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Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 27mins
Following Deaf President Now (1988), which piece of legislation provided the deaf with greater communication, education, and employment opportunities by allowing for accessibility and accommodations?
PL 94-142
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973
The Conference of Milan
The Americans with Disabilities Act
Who was responsible for influencing the belief in early Christianity that deafness was a sign of God's anger for sinning parents?
Thomas Braidwood
St. Augustine
Pedro Ponce De Leon
Aristotle
Building off of the work of a benedictine monk from Spain, Juan Pablo de Bonet published the first book on teaching sign language using a manual alphabet. What year did he do this?
(a)
German teacher Samuel Heinicke opened an Oralist school in Leipzig where he taught deaf to be by:
giving them jobs in factories
teaching them sign language
using drawings and pictures
having them feel his throat
L'Epee was known as "The Father of the Deaf," what did he do?
Healed a deaf man
learned sign language from the deaf and made it systematic
brought French sign language to America
Taught deaf people to speak
TRUE OR FALSE: Martha's vineyard is famous for a naturally occurring community of signers that later influenced the development of ASL.
TRUE
FALSE
Explain the history and significance of the two men pictured here:
The time of the first school for the deaf opening in America until the rise of Oralism is known as:
Enlightenment
The Dark Ages of Deaf History
The Golden Age of Deaf Education
Deaf President Now
In 1913, who approached the NAD about making "The Preservation of Sign Language"?
George Veditz
Laurent Clerc
Abbe Sicard
Thomas Gallaudet
Known as the "father of ASL linguistics, what did William Stokoe accomplish in the 1960's?
Which of the following relates to Deaf President Now in 1988? (select all that apply)
Sign Languages were banned and Oralism was deemed the best method for deaf education.
Students and faculty at Gallaudet University protest the selection of another hearing president
After eight days of student protests, I. King Jordan is named the first deaf president of Gallaudet University
Charles Michel de L'Epee published the first sign language dictionary as well as opened the first free public school for the deaf in Paris, so he was made president
Where was the first FREE school for the deaf (which used sign language instruction) located?
London
Paris
Hartford
Prague
This Spanish monk is believed to have establish the first manual alphabet, although not the first to have published a book about it.
Hernan Cortes
Juan Pablo de Bonet
St. Augustine
Pedro Ponce de Leon
Public Law 940142 (passed in 1975) provided what we call "F.A.P.E." What does that stand for?
Which of the following Greek figures was the only person to have thought somewhat positively of the deaf person's capabilities?
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Marcus Aurelius
In the year ________, the first school for the deaf, later called the American school for the Deaf, was opened in ___(location)____.
Which Greek philosophy states that the ability to reason and use language is present at birth and if one could not speak, that must mean the person is unintelligent?
Enlightenment
Oralism
Innate Intelligence
Manualism
In what year did both the Conference of Milan and the National Association for the Deaf convene?
1872
1876
1880
1913
Which school for the deaf in England helped developed British Sign Language and later denied helping Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet?
Gallaudet University
Martha's Vineyard
American School for the Deaf
The Braidwood Academy for the Deaf and Dumb
In 1864, who founded the college later called Gallaudet University?
Edward Gallaudet
Thomas Gallaudet
Laurent Gallaudet
Alexander Graham Bell
What happened at the Conference of Milan?
What helped bring deaf Americans out of the Dark Ages of Deaf History?
