DFST 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Early Access, Gallaudet University, Speech Community
12 Mar 2019
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Revised syllabus inclement weather policy, online classes -will have online quiz to make up for attendance if tu is closed. Review sign language communities (view ppts on your own) Need 2 students for next week"s class. View group ppts on your own (posted on blackboard) and learn about each community. Hearing and deaf people know and use sign language. Everyone views sign language as a natural way to communicate with deaf people. Do not view deaf people as different or abnormal. Both hearing and deaf people know and use sign language. People do not encourage or allow deaf people to use sign language. Hearing people ask, can you read my lips? . Martha"s vineyard - example of an assimilation community as opposed to a. Suppression community found on the mainland (bahan & poole nash,1996) There are attempts in western society but it is difficult for a deaf community to completely vanish.
