Deaf & Hearing Culture: A Comparison of Value Systems

Presented by Dr. Linda Siple

Notes

• Eye contact
•  Audism discrimination
• Sim Com can be 70% speaking, 30% signing
• Back-channel Feedback
• Communication over language
• English vs. ASL = Dictionary vs. Movie
• Jokes and Slang
• 'The nail that stands the tallest gets hit the hardest'

Thoughts

•  The power of proverbs and phrases to identify cultural perspectives
• Perhaps Slang and Jokes too!
• Visual Literacy within the co-culture of Deafness
• The difference between culture and co-culture
• collectivism in japan vs collectivism is deaf culture
• deaf activism
• services and special resources in mainstream schools

STEM Class 7

Arrived late...

Words vs. Words

• principle vs. principles
• interpreting vs. translating
• upload vs. download
• Screen vs. atmosphere

English Multiples

• atmosphere vs. blurry

Went around the room - How has technology changed in your field?

• Sam talked about data networks
• I talked about online resources
• Miriam talked about calculator projectors
• Jason talked about telescopes and rockets

Story about Sam's love/curiosity in seeing how things work - taking things apart, putting them back together.  His parents were always concerned about it, but it was the best way for him to learn.  

• I added my 2 cents about finding extra screws when I finish working on cars.

Lunch

chatting with student at salad counter

• Words vs. Words
• bean
• (student) bean vs. japan vs. comment
• (NTID) ''peas in a pod' vs. weld vs. chop food
• pepper
• (fingerspell) vegetable
• (student) initialize shake
• (NTID) (F-hs) shake

Tutoring 4

English Multiples

• normal, natural, nationalism

STEM Class 6

changing familiar words/phrases to match concept

• practical = everyday
• budget cut = money less

ASL Multiples

• approve
• energy
• develop

English Multiples

• survive and live
• fact and proof

Words vs. Words

• circumstances vs. culture vs. situation
• prevent vs. protect
• light vs. heavy
• invent vs. make-up vs. innovation
• exploration vs. search
• fact vs. findings vs. evidence
• procedures vs. step by step

STEM Class 4

Watched a video called 'The Science Lab' (section 16).

• Discussed classifiers
• Described equipment in a science lab

STEM Class 3

Late to class, making sure Wade had things to work on.  Raining, came it wet.  Second pass on Geology vocabulary.

• Sam Story - in Minn.  Man-made grand canyon in a little town.  Unbelievable how big it is, created to mine iron ore.

Picked up coffee afterwards next to Gracies.  

• Jessica signed that she had just finished a coffee