Culture impacts the way families and deaf children deaf education

Vygotsky thinks people learn best with experts or those experienced

Deaf people with different cultures are at a disadvantage.

Some deaf students prefer prefer visual learning and some hearing aids

Deaf blind mentors guide students and professionals on how to live and function

In the last the thought deaf people were not intelligent and were mislabeled

Thought of as concrete thinker and not abstract thinkers

Some deaf students have been misdiagnosed and weren’t placed right.

Early language helps thinking skills, label experiences, and recognize new patterns

Some cognitive thinking don’t need language; thus deaf people can create their own way of communication

Family circle helps learn thinking and language

Five sense help to perceive and gather info

Can also have physical disabilities and medical conditions

Deaf children use their visual memory to learn language

Visual memory and visual learning can help deaf students

By age 4 and 5, deaf and hearing children have learned most of the grammar of their languages and have a vocabulary of about 8,000 signs and spoken words and can understand thousands of words and signs

Ideal deaf kids should be exposed to many languages and signs before the age of 5