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    There are many things that people over look such as being Deaf . Most people don’t know this but 14.9% of ages 6-20 are deaf according to Cdc.Gov . Now that might not seem alot but their are so many kids in this world. Now that scientists have gone over that‚ their are two types of hearing loss. One Is called Conductive Hearing loss and one is called Sensorineural Hearing loss (Worldbookonline) Both affect the ear in some way‚ Conductive hearing loss results from conditions that interferes with

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    used to describe discrimination against deaf or hard of hearing people” I liked this definition because it is simple and to easy to understand. Audism is a word most people don’t recognize‚ and because of this fact most don’t realize when they are discriminating to the deaf or hard of hearing. When someone meets a deaf person for the first time they are usually awkward or even un-intentionally rude. I understand this because I did the same when I meet a deaf person for the first time. It wasn’t that

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    Latia T. Mack Intro to Education of Exceptional Child Course #: 204C 01 20941 Final Due Date: Thursday‚ May 3‚ 2012 A: Please define the following terms 1. Autism spectrum disorders- developmental disorders characterized by abnormal or impaired development in social interaction and communication and a markedly restricted repertoire of activity and interests. 2. Asperger syndrome- a persuasive developmental disorder with severe and sustained impairments and social interaction and the development

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    American Sign Language Kelly Allen Our Deaf Son If my child was deaf I would want him or her to be involved in the deaf community. I would make sure that I found a school that would teach students in sign language. Sending a deaf student to a regular school would make it hard for them to learn and make them feel like they don’t belong. As they get older I would try to teach them to lip read‚ so that they will be able to communicate with hearing people. Learning sign language would be top priority

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    late 17th century. For nearly 300 years‚ from the early eighteenth century to the mid twentieth century‚ it was home to a remarkably high percentage of deaf Americans who developed their own sign language‚ Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language. This isolated island allowed sign language to flourish beyond the deaf community‚ dissolving barriers between deaf and hearing prevalent in the rest of the world. Deafness first came to Martha’s Vineyard with the Puritans from Weald‚ a region in the British county

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    1. What do you think of speech reading or lip reading? What are your thoughts on this topic? Do all deaf people know how?I think that speech or lip reading is something that should never be expected out of anyone‚ deaf or hearing. I do not think that a person’s mouth can be understood without sound coming out of it. There are too many different ways of saying things; lip shapes are different; lip movements are different; people enunciate words differently therefore causing different facial movements

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    communicate and socialize‚ but how were deaf people supposed to do that if they can’t hear through the phone. For almost 100 year after its invention‚ the telephone separated deaf people from the rest of society. This also effected deaf people in their jobs because they were denied promotions due to the fact that they needed to use the phone and they couldn’t. However they did invent things to help deaf people communicate. Like for example in 1964‚ Robert Weitbrecht‚ a deaf

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    Deaf History 10/11/2011 Pathological Views of Deafness This article examined the two major conflicting views of deafness‚ the medical view and the social view. The article also goes in depth about the causes of deafness and the implications of the different impacts on deaf individuals depending on when they became deaf. Blindness and muscular ailments are also addressed. According to the author those who see deafness from the medical view see it as an affliction‚ as if deaf people are broken

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    alphabet in 1620. In 1760‚ Deaf education was offered for free in a French school. In 1788‚ France published the first sign language dictionary. America soon caught on and offered Deaf education as well. Subsequently‚ the New York Institution for Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb was founded in 1818. Similar schools were created in Pennsylvania‚ Missouri‚ Kentucky‚ and Virginia in following years. In the 1850’s‚ the idea of a Deaf state was proposed to allow other Deaf people to interact within their

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    1140(CC13)30 March 25‚ 2013 Life-Growth And Deaf Children In modern times of technology and innovation our understanding of language‚ learning‚ and experience including a proper education in regards to a deaf child is as important and available as ever. As we explore life building methods and techniques to teach deaf children we can recognize many strong forces that effect a Deaf child’s educational-life‚ building self-growth and worth. The dynamics of a deaf child’s development better meet the child’s

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