EDP 256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: American Sign Language, Deaf Culture, Hearing Aid
4 Apr 2016
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Deaf: a person whose hearing loss prevents them from successfully processing linguisic informaion through audiion, with or without a hearing aid. Most deaf people have some residual hearing. Hard of hearing: a person who generally, with the use of a hearing aid, has suicient residual hearing to process linguisic informaion through audiion. Pre-lingual: deafness that occurs before speech or language develop. Post-lingual: deafness ater speech or language develop (oten thought to be around 18 months) School age children 0. 14% (6-17 years old) Hard of hearing is more common than deafness. More than half of all students being served by idea for hearing impairment are from diverse backgrounds (29% from spanish speaking homes) A group of people who are deaf and view their deafness as a cultural diference/idenity. Comprehension and producion of english language is the greatest deicit. May be expert at american sign language (asl) No relaionship between hearing loss and intellectual deicits.
