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children begin to put words together at what age?
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18-20 months
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What did Bonvillian notice about deaf children?
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When normal children begin to start babbling, deaf children will begin to babble with their hands
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What did Bonvillian notice about deaf children with parents who did not sign to them?
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they began their babbling later
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Linda Acredolo's experiment
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wanted to see if deaf children could develop a vocabulary faster than hearing children
one group of parents volunteered to sign to children at least once a week one group of parents spent extra time working on speech once a week gestural communication won |
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implication of Acredolo and Goodwyn's studies
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babies have ability to communicate before speech production
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What did Acredolo and Goodwyn notice when they continued to follow children taught early signs over time?
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Higher IQs, advantage on a number of verbal language acquisition measures throughout early childhood
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What does Acredolo think about signing?
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It facilitates language development
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What could be a possible flaw in Acredolo's experiment?
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she only tested a specific group with parents willing to put time and effort into the experiment and teaching their children, not necessarily random maybe these children would have been smarter anyways
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Where was the first school for the deaf and what was taught?
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Spain 16th century, finger-spelling
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Who is given credit for the first one-handed manual alphabet and why?
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Bonnet, he published the first book on it
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What happened in Spain that led to the establishment of a sign language program
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3 boys in a noble family were born deaf, went to school in a monastery because they had vows of silence and gestural communication, kids make progress, one becomes priest himself
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France 18th century: L'Epee and sign instruction
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encounters a mother with deaf daughters who need to be taught the gospel
daughters teach him their sign language writes first book on deaf creates school for deaf - fingerspelling |
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Oralism roots (Amman)
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focused on hearing and reading of lips
believed that the deaf were inferior because speech was a gift of God |
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Gallaudet
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started working with Alice and teaching her alphabet with walking stick in sand
goes to London where he notices half the deaf children are doing well while the other half are vegetables meets L'Epee and goes to Paris takes back teacher Clare |
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Gallaudet's school
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American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut
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Historical roots of ASL come from what?
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French sign language and Martha's Vineyard
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What did Alexander Graham Bell create?
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Bell System of visual speech
international phonetic alphabet |
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What did Bell believe about sign language?
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It should be all oral
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Who went to Gallaudet and argued that sign language should be included as a language? Why?
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Bill Stokoe
distinct linguistic structure 50 locations for signs 19 hand shapes |
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Prelingual Deafness
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deaf from birth or shortly after
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Postlingual Deafness
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lost hearing during the course of childhood, had had some experience with language
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postlingual deafness vs. prelingual deafness
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postlingual: olden days, better health, could reacquire spoken skills
prelingual: nowadays, have more trouble with spoken language |
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Cognitive Abilities of Deaf Students: Performance on IQ
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deaf tends to do quite poorly, especially on English, college-level students score at the chance level on reading tests
good spatial skills and abilities |
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Cognitive Abilities of Deaf Students:
Piaget-type items |
conservation of number, quantity
deaf students tend to do just as well as hearing students |