CDO 431 Exam Review 2.1

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  Visual information
  
•   Oral communication
  
•     Visual cues
  
•     Speechreading

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  Manual communication
  
•   Transmitted via special signs and symbols made with the hands
  
•   ASL, SEE, Finger Spelling, Cued Speech

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  Speaker
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  Signal code
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  Environment
  
• Speechreader

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  Visual abilities
  
• Language abilities
• Ex. Congenitally Deaf
  
• Residual hearing
• Ex. Hard or hearing

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  Iowa Sentence Test (1986)
  
• Utley ST test
  
• Craig lipreading inventory (1964)
  
• The Children’s Audiovisual Enhancement Test (2002)

Sounds, words or sentences

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  Analytic
  
• Learning the individual articulator movements
  

• Synthetic
  
• Grasping the general idea of communication
  

Continuous Discourse Tracking (CDT) 1978

• Incorporates both synthetic and analytic approaches
  
• Should include some visual-auditory combined situations to help integrate information from both senses
  
• Computer based programs (CAIV)

An interpreter repeats what is being said by the speaker to the listener at a closer distance making it easier for the listener to speechread

• American Sign Language
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  Signed English Systems
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  Finger Spelling
  
• Cued Speech

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  A true language which evolves naturally from culture and use
  
• Produced by hand shapes, position and movement
  
• Has its own structure and vocabulary
  
• Thousands of signs
  
• Iconic signs- close representations of English words

• Seeing Essential English (SEE I)
• Signed Exact English ( SEE II)

• Manual Alphabet
  
• Spell out verbatim what is being said
  
• Timely
  
• Accurate

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  Talker uses hand cues to simultaneously while speaking
• Reduces viseme and homophene confusion