Deaf and Hard Hearing
Deaf and Hard Hearing
Deaf and Hard Hearing
Introduction to Special
Education: Making a Difference
Chapter 10
Definitions, generally
Bell believed
Residential schools and sign language
caused segregation
Feared it encouraged deaf people to marry
other deaf people and would result in the
loss of hearing for the entire human race
Began legislation to prevent 2 deaf people
from marrying, eliminate residential schools,
prohibit sign language, and ban deaf people
from becoming teachers
Bell vs. Gallaudet cont’d
Galludet believed
Strongly opposed all of Bell’s positions
He won support from Congress for the
manual approach and for separate center
schools
Only 11% of teachers of the deaf use ASL in the classroom. Instead, they use manual
communication methods that use grammatical structures that are similar to English.
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