Final Deaf Culture Exam |244 questions| with correct answers

What fraction of children became Deaf before they could learn English at home CORRECT ANSWER 9/10 One study showed that on finishing school, deaf students in Great Britain were CORRECT ANSWER no better at reading lips than the man in the street (despite the students' decade of training) what fraction find their own deaf pupils hard to understand or utterly unintelligible CORRECT ANSWER ⅔ Alphabet principle puzzling: CORRECT ANSWER why should ideas be designated by stringing out a small number of elements (vowels and consonants) in a row? Laura Bridgman, deaf and blind American 19th century, was corrected in her childhood for misspelling cat, she asked why it mattered whether one spelled it cta, tac, or act The tragedy is not that America's deaf children cannot speak of lip-read English; the tragedy is CORRECT ANSWER that their education is conducted exclusively in this English they do not know. Study: 17,000 deaf high school students in the US: average 16-year-old deaf student reads as poorly as an. Even in his best subject arithmetic he is CORRECT ANSWER 8-year-old hearing child 4 grades behind. England Study: nearly all deaf 16 year olds found that despite ten years of strictly oral education, deaf students left school at 16 with a reading age of CORRECT ANSWER 8. Nor did these orally taught and trained deaf children have good oral skills.