...Audism Unveiled Movie Worksheet/Discussion Answer Key 1. The movie begins with “Attention: The following movie is subtitled for the signing-impaired.” This is an example of Deaf humor but also what underlying message do you think they are making known by doing so? Answer: Hearing Impaired is disliked by most Deaf because it defines deaf solely in terms of broken or defective ears that need fixing, or to be aided or corrected. Hearing force expensive devices to make Deaf more “normal.” Labeling them “impaired” makes them seem less capable, less human. Emphasis should be on the person not on the impairment; on what Deaf are, not what they lack. 2. What were the 3 reasons that the first woman did not get hired for a job in Texas? a. She was Black. b. She was a Woman. c. She was Deaf. 3. When in group conversations or watching movies without captions what response do Deaf hate the most from hearing people? a. It is not important b. Tell you later 4. What is one punishment for signing in school? Kneel on a broomstick with arms spread out 5. What are examples of discrimination throughout the world shown in the movie? a. Parents cut out Deaf kid’s tongue b. People refused to help deaf woman give birth for fear of touching her would make them cursed. 6. When does oppression occur? When people believed as a superior, control and dominate minority groups 7. Different names for oppression are: a. Racism b....
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...Examining Government Regulations Student Name HSM/210 Date Instructor Name Living with any type of disability can be difficult; however, the deaf population in America faces a unique challenge when trying to pursue the American dream: finding a job. Upon researching contemporary problems within the United States, it was discovered that gaining and keeping employment among the estimated one million functionally deaf individuals in America is one of the larger problems that the deaf community faces. The reason that this is such a large obstacle is that communication within a workplace is vital to ensuring successful completion of tasks and accomplishing goals. Programs have been put in place, and legislative measures have been introduced, to assist these individuals in not only gaining employment, but also in maintaining a healthy and happy work environment that can lead to career longevity. The first step to ensuring open channels of communication among both the deaf and hearing communities is to form a standard of education. After Arizona entered the Union in February of 1912, one of its first state legislatures enacted a provision to form the Arizona Schools for the Deaf and Blind (Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, 2011). Starting classes in October of that year with just 19 children with hearing loss, the school continued to grow over the years to eventually become a public corporation. This school has many services for eligible students; including...
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...|Cultural Comparison of Deaf Culture and Hearing Culture in the USA | |(Using the Hofstede Cultural Comparison Assignment as a guide) | |Where Deaf Culture Would Score If Included in the Geert Hofstede™ Cultural Dimensions | | | |Nathaneil Godfrey | | | PDI Power Distance Indicator Power distance This dimension deals with the fact that all individuals in societies are not equal – it expresses the attitude of the culture towards these inequalities amongst us. Power distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organisations within a country expect and accept that power is distributed unequally. It has to do with the fact that a society’s inequality is endorsed by the followers as much as by the leaders. http://geert-hofstede.com/ Deaf culture I think Deaf culture...
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...The most significant challenge that I had to face is being a parent of a deaf child with other disabilities such as having mild mental disability and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. My daughter was born on March 4, 1998. It is a very hard thing to have to deal with simply because it takes time and effort along with help from different avenues. When I first learned that she as deaf was on the second day in the hospital they took a hearing test. Deafness runs in my family. It first started out with my sister being deaf. When I first found out that she was completely deaf it was very hard for me to grasp. I thought of everything in the book why she might be deaf from me drinking alcohol to having problems with abuse in previous relationships. It took me 5 years to actually let it sit in that it wasn’t about me. It was something that happened in life. The other challenge was to tell her father who was incarcerated that he had a deaf child, he said,” None of my other kids are deaf so this baby is not mine” It hurt for him to tell me that. It made me even doubts it more. The steps that I have taken to address this challenge was to get help with myself first by learning about the deaf community, to learn American Sign Language and get counseling for me. It is hard learning sign languageb you have to be dedicated and it takes a while to learn. I am trying top learn sign lanugage every chaqnce that I get. It is hard and time consuming but once you practice you can use...
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...Deaf Festival I turaly enjoyed this event so many Deaf people coming together for a celebration. I was able to witness every type of communication a Deaf person can utilize. I saw how Deaf-Blind receive information and I couldn’t peel my eyes away. The performancy were amazing especially the dance interpretation with ASL. I meet so many Deaf people from all over the nation even meet someone from Cuba who knew Cuban Sign Language but not ASL that was a new experience sharing signs but her and a Deaf women were able to get by really really interesting to see 2 different Sing Languages but able to understand one another. Experising my thoughts again on the way communication was shared during the performances was jaw dropping: multiple interpertors for specific use either, translating for those needing Enlgish, ASL for needing ASL but on both ends of the stage and the amazing teaming for voicing. We discuss a lot how much a conflict between the hearing world and Deaf but for the first time I was able to witness both worlds not segergatated but intertwinging with one another, I witness people speaking enjoying themselves and Deaf people speaking enjoying themselves but what I enjoyed was Deaf people weren’t entirely outnumber outside Deaf events I’ll run into a Deaf person here or their always outnumbered by hearing, not on this day Deaf people flourished. It was a wonderful experience that I’m blessed to have had an oppurtnity to be apart...
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...Theresa Luke 11/24/14 ASL 101 “Love is Never Silent” Reaction Paper The movie, “Love is Never Silent”, a “Hallmark Hall of Fame” film, is based on a young girl whose parents are not part of the hearing world during the Depression of the 1930’s. Margaret, the daughter of Janice and Abel, is the only hope they have in order to stay connected to the hearing world. By using American Sign Language, Margaret has helped her parents stay in tune with what’s going on in the outside world. Margaret’s childhood consisted of keeping her parents connected with the hearing world. This meant that she hardly had any time to herself. She had to grow up a lot faster than the kids she went to school with because it was like Margaret was taking care of her parents and not being raised by them. Most, if not any of the kids she went to school with were not interpreting American Sign Language for their parents. In fact, nobody even knew that Margaret’s parents were deaf because she was worried that people would look at her funny or make fun of her parents for it. Margaret grew up hearing awful comments and stereotypes about deaf people that fortunately couldn’t be heard by her parents. As Margaret grew older and found love and independence outside of her home, her parents become bitter and distraught by it. Her wanting to be able to be free and do things like getting married to a man upset her parents. Janice and Abel looked at this as Margaret deserting and leaving them lost in the hearing...
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...Deafness as Culture In this article, by Edward Dolnick, it is made clear the view points of the Deaf community toward medical procedures “curing” there lost hearing. The Deaf community is strongly knitted together supporting one another and helping each other to communicate with others outside the community who isn’t deaf. I liked how they said Deafness is not a disability but a subculture. This statement really signifies there union as a community and culture. The significance between the terms “deaf” and “Deaf” is that the upper case D is significant that the “deaf share a culture rather than merely a medical condition.” In the article it states many deaf parents cheer on having a deaf child just like any hearing parent would cheer on having a hearing child. The Deaf society have a strong pride in themselves and being deaf and do not want to change that feature about them ever even if there was a procedure. That is why many Deaf people get frustrated with hearing parents who have deaf children when they first go see doctors and audiologists before actually trying to talk with a Deaf person who will be more understanding a willing to help there child be a part of the community. Some differences between deaf minorities and other cultural minorities is that deaf minorities choose not to change who they are because they see themselves as not having a disability, while other cultural minorities might want to change either through medical procedures like blind people wanting...
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...Nika Pickwoad Ms. Ruiz Deaf Culture November 18, 2013 Deaf culture #1) Sign language has been around for as long as its existence of deafness. Deafness, in the early centuries of American life caused many problems for those that were deaf. Doctors did not understand the root causes of deafness and books were rare at the time. Until the most recent years, doctors finally understand why deafness occurs and the deaf communities in the world today are being respected and admired, with the aid of American Sign Language. “ASL has many roots not only is it rooted in the French ideas, but also the ideas of the Great Plains Indians in America” (Butterworth & Flodin, 1995).The man responsible for bringing sign language to light in the United States is Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Gallaudet studied the French ways and returned to America in 1817 where he founded the first school for the deaf in America, near present day Hartford, Connecticut. The college was appropriately named Gallaudet College, after Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. ASL is starting to be referred to as a foreign language. The reason for this growing idea stems from colleges and universities recognizing ASL as a success for foreign language credits in many college degree programs. “Gary Olsen former Executive Director of the National Association of the Deaf, referred to this notion of ASL as a foreign language as an American ground swell” (Butterworth & Flodin...
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...Hearing is one of the most important senses we have as humans’ beings and without being able to hear, life is not simple, nor it is easy. Individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing are unfortunate to have quality communication with others. There is a barrier-dividing people who are deaf from hearing people. Just like hearing people, the deaf like to talk with others; Conversations can be difficult for them, especially if they are trying to communicate with individuals who are not familiar with the Deaf community or sigh language. Lack of communication inhibits the interaction between people, so in order to overcome this barrier, people who are deaf key in on socialization. Experiencing what deaf people have to go through every single day in their lives was not easy to practice. Wearing earplugs for eight hours was a new experience that I learned a lot from. Having the ear plug in my ear canal created a conductive hearing loss and it could be either congenital or acquired causes. These causes can damage the shape of the pinna. The way I started interacting with people around me was not the same, as well the way they acted towards me. A lot of them were surprised that I was using my arms to point at things, and also wondering why I am not responding when they are saying, “ How am I doing today”. Nodding my head was not the answer they were expecting form me. Communicating with others was not easy at all, and...
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...We watched two videos for this ASL class. One is a documentary called Audism Unveiled. And other documentary is Through Deaf Eyes. It was new to hear how Audism is discovered and how people reacted with the deafness. It was so surprising to hear that people actually did something to cure the disease with various ways. I did not expect that sign language is one thing that people did not allow deaf people to use. I felt really bad to know that deaf were trained to speak out loud and not allowed to use sign language. Even though I am not a deaf person, I already know how lip reading is hard to do in a conversation because I can’t communicate with my friends by lip reading which a lot of girls use to talk things secretly. It was totally heartbreaking to see many stories about parents trying to ‘cure’ their deaf children with science, and religion. Also devastating were the descriptions of a couple of 18th century ‘cures’ for deafness, including one which involved pumping the Eustachian tube full of chemicals. At least the chemicals make sense about curing the deafness, but flying on the jet to cure deafness is much more terrifying way to do to their children. I was interested to learn that up until recently, almost all education for deaf students was entirely focused on speech. So many stories of people being punished for using sign or not pronouncing words to the teacher’s satisfaction. Many people also told their stories of being forced to learn Signed English or Manually...
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...Republic of the Philippines PHILIPPINE STATE COLLEGE OF AERONAUTICS INSTITUTE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES Piccio Garden, Villamor Air Base, Pasay City Challenges of Airport Employees in Communicating to Mute and Deaf Passengers A Study on the Challenges of Airport Employees in Communicating Mute and Deaf Passengers Submitted By: Dela Vega, Joaquin Jr. M AB- 3-1 Submitted to: Professor Ivan Mascardo August 28, 2015 Chapter 1 1.1 Introduction In 1951, ICAO announced that English will be the compulsory language used for the international aviation. (Varavudhi, 2009). Such requirements would improve communication, coordination, and performance of the required safety and related duties of airport employees. “Communication is the exchange and flow of information and thoughts from one person to another; it involves a sender transmitting a thought, information, or feeling to a receiver. Communication includes writing and talking, as well as nonverbal communication (such as facial expressions, body language, or gestures), visual communication (the use of images or pictures, such as painting, photography, video or film) and electronic communication (telephone calls, electronic mail, - cable television, or satellite broadcasts).(Mallett-Hamer, 2005, p.1). A successful communication demand same basic ability of sender and receiver. Here ideas are delivered, which received and an immediate feedback generated” (kabir...
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...Deaf Service Center On the twenty first of March, I went to the Deaf Service Center in the San Francisco Library. I saw a nice, wonderful, and colorful painting on the wall. I think one or some children work on it together. I also saw a sculpture of hands, which represents American Sign Language. I opened a book. I learned the purpose of signed English. It is a model of English language and a tool to communicate information between people. If a child is hard of hearing, it is very important that an adult use sign language to send information. It is another equal model of English language. Hearing-impaired children learn to read lips, see manual sign symbols. As we can see, it is not easy to spell words by manual, and to learn sign language. However, it is an essential tool for educational purpose. I also read the book called “Deaf Star”. A deaf child named William became a baseball player. He has very little friend because he can not talk. When he grew up, he went to the resident school. He made some friends there. He is not alone any more. Later, he became a cobbler, and he bought a property and provided ground for deaf children to play baseball. He is such a nice guy; he worked very hard. Finally, he became a formal baseball player. My point is that we need to respect deaf people and provide equal access to their search of employment. They can do the same as we do, even...
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...schools as a dumping ground for deaf kids. When in actuality it is a place for the Deaf to identify themselves. Deaf of Deaf acquire their culture from infancy, but only about 10% are Deaf of Deaf, others get this culture from attending Deaf schools. And yet there are still others who are put in mainstream schools who aren’t exposed to Deaf culture until college or even when they start attending Deaf Clubs. Deaf communities consider themselves family and believe in taking care of each other, Deaf take care of Deaf. Deaf value Deaf of Deaf, they want to preserve deafness. While hearing people want to do away with deaf by cochlear implants and even hearing aids, are hearing people’s way of fixing their deafness. Deaf people do not need to be fixed. They are very capable of leading a normal life. They think this would destroy Deaf culture; besides cochlear may improve only environmental sounds but it does not cure deafness completely. To go with cochlear, oralism is not thought highly of either. Being forced to speak or learn to lip read is a waste of time to a majority of the Deaf community. It was said that sign language would make kids lazy, it is a ghetto language. If you can’t talk then you have no rights. This is just another way for hearing people to kill off Deaf culture. Deaf have folklores like ABC stories-poems, ASL stories, stories and narratives, literature puns, riddles, jokes, theater, and visual arts. Introduction is critical for the Deaf....
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...Abstract The deaf culture is one that I am not familiar with. No one in my immediate family or none of my close friends are deaf so I have not been exposed to it during my lifetime. I decided to take an American Sign Language course in high school to not only learn the language, but to learn about the deaf culture as well. I would like to someday be fluent in sign language so that I can cater to the deaf community while conducting business. Conducting research, I learned a lot about to deaf community. Deaf people are presumed to have a disability because they do not have the ability to use all five senses. The Deaf community is a cultural group, sharing common experience, concerns, and language Main Body The deaf community share common experiences. Many people have misconception of the deaf community. Many people assumed that deaf people are dumb because they cannot hear. It is assumed that because they can’t hear, their understanding of the world around them his somehow lessened. Many hearing people have this mind frame and tend to treat deaf people as such. High percentage of deaf people has experienced this at least once in their lifetime. I did not agree with some of the facts that I found out about this. Just because one cannot hear, should not have anything to do with his or her intelligence. Deaf people learn the same way was hearing people and can comprehend things just as well. Intelligence depends on the individuals person drive and their willingness...
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...In this documentary we are educated about how Sign language is an independent, complete language; and how hearing parents can acquire it to teach it to their deaf child; and how parents can learn to accept their child as Deaf. Sign language uses body language, facial expressions and gestures to convey meaning as opposed to using voice i.e. LSQ opposed French. It is not only used by deaf people but also by people who cannot speak. It is import for parents to learn and teach their child sign language as early as possible; and encourage people around them to learn it as well because it is critical to sign around Deaf people all the time. Sign language might seem hard to learn at first but motivation is the key; and it is easier for people to sign than for the deaf child to speak. As people learn to sign, they also learn that most of their perceptions were based on false information. Signing comes naturally to Deaf people and it is essential that the child’s foundation should be in sign language first and then English should be their second language. Just like any other language, deaf children will “baby talk” first, but their language will evolve and become more complex with time. It is important for the Deaf child and the family to immerse in the Deaf community and learn about Deaf culture; and for the Deaf child to develop a strong self-identity. Parents of the Deaf child should understand that the child has a different way of life and they should not limit to the one...
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