1. When does role shifting occur?
-Role shifting occurs when speaking of more than one person. For, example when talking about your mother, father or grandma and grandpa; you would use role shifting which includes the movement of body in either direction.
2. Who was Laurent Clerc and what did he do to Deaf education?
- Laurent Clerc was a deaf teacher at the National Royal Institute in Paris. Help start the first school for the deaf in Hartford, Connecticut
- Brought effective teaching methods from Paris using Sign language
3. Explain what happened late in the 19th century related to the tide that began to turn against Deaf people and their language.
-In the 19th century the international congress on education of the deaf in Milan, Italy came up with the decision on banning the use of sign language
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What is National Association of the Deaf and when was it founded?
-The National Association of the deaf (NAD) is an organization that brought deaf people together from around the world who work for their common interest and fight for discrimination in the workplace and at school. NAD thought that Sign Language would be lost, so they made funds available to make a series of films in sign language. The National Association of the Deaf was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in the year 1880.
5. The years from 1900 to 1960 could be considered the “Dark Ages” of Deaf history. What does “Dark Ages” of Deaf history mean and what sustained the Deaf community during this period of time? Explain clearly.
-The “Dark Ages “was period in which was a time where there was lack of social understanding but had a strong oralism. Oralism is the use of speech and lip-reading as a form of speech for the people of the deaf community to use rather than sign language. The Deaf clubs was what kept their culture alive despite what others thought of how they would communicate with each other.
6. According to Linguistic research on ASL, what is ASL and explain how different ASL is from