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Chapter 13: Closing Statements - Coggle Diagram
Chapter 13: Closing Statements
Technology
Allows for the preservation of sign languages
Cochlear implants can assist with oral learning and with learning English grammar
Communication: FaceTime, Skype, YouTube, videophones, texting.
The telephone was a big obstacle for the Deaf community before the invention of the TTY, relay services and videophones
Science
Sign and spoken language activate the same areas of the brain
Brain and Language Laboratory for Neuroimaging (BL2) is where scientists are conducting research on the deaf bimodal and bilingual brain
To gain hearing: Stem cell research for nerve cell regeneration, separation of Deaf genes.
Although a child may have cochlear implants, they may still struggle to speak and/or listen; sign language will not make them want to learn these less, but it supplement oral learning.
Eugenics
Some believe that removing genes that make someone deaf is a form of eugenics
Medical care, mainstreaming, cochlear implants and genetic engineering may threaten the use of sign language.
Wondering if Deaf community would survive since the 1880 International Congress on the Education of the Deaf in Milan decision to stop sign language in schools
The Deaf culture is being transmitted to a larger audience than it was in the past due to the internet
ASL is taught to hearing babies to jumpstart early communication
Careers
There has been an increase in the number of Deaf people with MD, PhD/EdD and JD.
Culturally Deaf people are succeeding in careers related to the worlds of education, business, medicine, law, social services, education, and many other employment opportunities.
Deaf people are less likely to get a job if they include the fact that they are deaf in their resume
More and more Acts and laws are being passed to guarantee Deaf people a suitable work environment and to cease discrimination against Deaf people.