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Deaf Education/Culture - Coggle Diagram
Deaf Education/Culture
ASL/English Bilingual
Most families use both written English and ASL
Teachers use ASL as primary w/ESL
Used by state schools for the deaf
Monolingual
Goal to mainstream deaf children
Leaves deaf children feeling isolated and their peers
Written and spoken English
Bilingual bimodal
Auditory and visual ASL
Spoken English through hearing aids
Total communication
Bilingual by nature, but includes manual codes of English
manual codes use ASL and invented morphemes
Contact signing (PSE) combines ASL and English (But English word order and grammar)
SimCom aids hearing people who can depend on their English if not ASL fluent
Manual vs Oral
Milan Congress 1800 oral method decided upon
AGB believed sign was unnecessary bc deaf children could learn to speak