Deaf Culture Midterm

sum total of learned behavior, patterns of a specific period, race or people including impliments, economics, music, art, religion, traditions, etc.

• 1. understand perspective
• 2. discover where you mainstream
• 3. knowledge for interpreters
• 4. model of interpreting
• 5. understand how to maneuver in their environment
• 6. be familiar with aspects and history of culture

• 1. Milan 1880-oralism
• 2. hearing people changing ASL
• 3. using ASL for 'hearing' benefits (baby signs)

• natural
• foreign
• American
• true

• Pantomime
• Universal
• Written
• English on the hands

Discovered ASL; published dictionary in 1965

discovered Deaf Culture; Stokoe's assistant

• background
• geographic location

when Deaf change to match a hearing person (ASL vs English)

English word order with ASL features

old term for Contact Sign

Formal

term used for people who do not have good language skills either in English or ASL

• 1. Symbol of Social Identity
• 2. Medium of Interaction
• 3. Repository of Cultural Knowledge

• 1. Values
• 2. Customs
• 3. Information

• 1. Hinting and vague talk
• 2. Sudden departure
• 3. Private conversations
• 4. Breaking eye contact

always act in a way that facilitates communication!

• 1. handshape
• 2. movement
• 3. location
• 4. palm orientation

• 1. Verb agreement
• 2. Inflections
• 3. Classifiers
• 4. Facial Grammar

• 1. Verb agreement- native sensitive, early/late not
• 2. Inflections- all 3 sensitive
• 3. Classifiers- native/early sensitive, late not

• 1. Conditional
• 2. Questions and negatives
• 3. Adverbs

sign whose form suggests its meaning

• 1. Universal
• 2. Iconic
• 3. Transparent

Form

Meaning

Left hemisphere

• ASL: Ground comes first then figure
• English: Figure comes first then ground

• 1. Mapping space
• 2. Rotated vs mirror images
• 3. recreating block designs on the WISC-R IQ test
• 4. Peripheral vision
• 5. Copying chinese characters

• 1. School of the Deaf
• 2. Deaf Clubs
• 3. Gallaudet

Eyeth

At Gallaudet-revolution, Deaf president and board members, no interpreter needed. Chairman said deaf wasnt ready to function in hearing world

American Athetic Association of the Deaf

World Games of the Deaf

• Umpire hand signals
• Football huddles

burial insurance

National Association for the Deaf: Political, founded in 1880 to counter AGBell and advocate for sign language

• physical
• identity
• marry within
• suffer oppression

National Black Deaf Advocates

National Alliance of Black Interpreters

Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay and Transgendered Interpreters and Translators

Name, where from (school), work, who else they know in the community

name, How ASL was learned and why, what other Deaf they know

Eyes

• 1. Importance of eyes/hands
• 2. Residential schools
• 3. Deaf Clubs
• 4. Language
• 5. Deaf children

fingerspelling in paintings

political cartoons/oppression, fingers cut off

animals/objects that represent ASL word (cat with hands)

actor/poet, blogger, leader in Deafhood

poet/linguistic-other of Dandelion and The Cave

Bird of a Different Feather

NTD founder, studied mime with Marcel Marceau

Children of a Lesser God was written for her, Love is Never Silent

NTD and Love is Never Silent

Sesame Street

Children of a Lessor God