Chapter 11 Learners Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

A) decibel levels detected.

B) frequency of sounds detected.

C) location of hearing loss.

D) language ability

A) a condition present since birth

B) an inability to understand speech even with a hearing aid

C) a hearing loss of more than 90 dB in at least one ear

D) a condition of old age

A) were not born deaf but became deaf later in life.

B) find it "hard" (in their own subjective judgment) to hear as well as the rest of
the population.

C) have a conductive hearing loss.

D) have enough residual hearing to process sound with a hearing aid

A) conductive

B) sensorineural

C) congenital

D) postlingual

A) 14%

B) 0.14%

C) 1.4%

D) 0.014%

A) there is a difference between prelingual and postlingual deafness

B) they should be considered a cultural minority with a language of their own.

C) there are advantages to being deaf, so it is not a disability.

D) although deafness is a handicap, it is not a disability.

A) increased sense of balance

B) electrical impulse being sent to the brain

C) transfer of energy from the middle to the inner ear

D) a vacuum that stimulates hair cells

A) cerumen

B) tympanic membrane

C) vestibular mechanism

D) cochlea

A) 2-4-6 year rule

B) 1-3-6 month rule

C) 2-4-6 week rule

D) 2-4-6 month rule

A) detection and understanding of speech

B) threshold for hearing at various frequencies

C) kinds of hearing tests to be used

D) presence of the Moro reflex

A) have a very narrow range: 50-500 Hz

B) have a range that is affected by altitude and humidity: 100-900 Hz

C) have a range higher than long-haired dogs: 250-1,000 Hz

D) have a wide range: 500-2,000 Hz

A) dB level at which one can understand speech.

B) intensity and frequency of spoken English.

C) Hz level at which the average person can detect sound.

D) level at which the human ear can discriminate between similar sounds.

A) brain-stem-evoked response

B) speech

C) tympanometry

D) conditioned play

A) conductive

B) mixed

C) sensorineural

D) adventitious

A) atresia

B) otitis

C) anoxia

D) atrium

A) is a myth, the external canal is impervious to infections.

B) is medically known as external otitis, an infection of the skin of the external
auditory canal.

C) is caused by allergies to algae in the water.

D) is caused by a perforation of the eardrum.

A) middle ear

B) eardrum

C) inner ear

D) outer ear

A) sound distortion

B) balance problems

C) ringing noises

D) draining fluid

A) otitis media

B) maternal rubella

C) congenital herpes

D) congenital cytomegalovirus

A) mild

B) marked

C) severe

D) anywhere between mild and severe

A) handshape

B) location

C) intensity

D) movement

A) It is a primitive, visual representation of oral language similar to mime

B) It has grammatical structure at the sentence level and the word level

C) There is no universal sign language

D) Twins who are born deaf develop a signing system, but it is rudimentary and
less sophisticated than ASL

A) They reach the same language development milestones in sign as children
without hearing loss do in spoken language, but at a slower rate.

B) They reach the same language development milestones in sign at the same time
as children without hearing loss do in spoken language.

C) They are at a distinct disadvantage regarding acquisition of spoken language.

D) They are at a distinct disadvantage regarding acquisition of English language
comprehension

A) the IQ scores of both those who are hearing and those who are deaf are lower.

B) the IQ scores of those who are deaf are lower than those who are hearing.

C) the IQ scores of those who are deaf are higher than those who are hearing.

D) there is no difference in IQ scores between those who are deaf and those who
are hearing.

A) because they are virtually non-existent, they are largely irrelevant to their
learning to read.

B) they should be ignored in reading instruction because they interfere with the
visual skills needed to learn sign.

C) they are similar to phonology skills of students with reading disabilities.

D) they are most easily acquired if they are integrated into a differentiated
curriculum model of instruction

A) hearing parents who teach them how to speak.

B) parents who are deaf who teach them ASL.

C) brothers and sisters who are hearing.

D) parents who communicate with them using both ASL and speech

A) < inclusion with hearing peers and having parents who hear

B) < inclusion with hearing peers and having parents who are deaf

C) > inclusion with hearing peers and having parents who hear

D) > inclusion with hearing peers and having parents who are deaf

A) voluntary organizational networks such as National Theater of the Deaf

B) historical awareness documenting people and events significant to deafness

C) predominant pattern of intermarriage with people outside of the Deaf
community

D) well-established behavioral guidelines with regard to such things as eye
contact and physical touching

A) Yogi Berra

B) Johnny Lipon

C) "Dummy" Hoy

D) Al Kaline

A) children should not receive cochlear implants to improve their hearing.

B) parents should not permit children who are deaf to learn English.

C) all students who are deaf should attend residential schools until the age of 16.

D) all citizens should be required to learn American Sign Language.

A) eliminate embryos that have the Connexin-26 gene because in can cause
deafness

B) physically alter a gene to cause a baby to be hearing

C) eradicate deafness in vitro

D) deliberately increase their chances of having a deaf child

A) depend on their peers for sound cues

B) use their residual hearing

C) learn sign language as quickly as possible

D) focus on visual cues

A) speech-reading

B) lipreading

C) face reading

D) gestural reading

A) Braille and manual communication.

B) sign language and a typewriter.

C) a telephone and a computer.

D) oral and manual communication

A) They are the type of manualism most often used in total communication.

B) They follow the same word order as spoken English.

C) They include fingerspelling.

D) They result in more fluency than ASL.

A) teaching the history of the Deaf culture instead of that of the dominant culture

B) providing a foundation in spoken English to serve as a basis for ASL

C) stressing that ASL is the primary language, and English is secondary

D) encouraging hearing people to learn ASL as a second language

A) amplify sound.

B) increase reverberation.

C) provide individualized instruction.

D) broadcast the schedule of daily events.

A) contain a chip that produces captions

B) come with a decoder

C) come with a VCR

D) come with a teletypewriter

A) decoding closed captions on TV

B) accessing teletext service

C) printing sign language texts

D) communicating via telephone

A) 86%

B) 8%

C) 10%

D) 18%

A) it creates too much work for the general education teacher

B) they do not get along with the other students

C) it reduces their opportunity to participate in the signing community

D) they do not have the cognitive or academic skills to succeed in the mainstream

A) Curriculum-based measurement is not an appropriate method for measuring
reading fluency for these students.

B) Most standardized assessments are biased towards the majority culture.

C) Research does not support the development of phonics-based reading skills for
these students.

D) Several standardized measures of reading ability are available for these
students.

A) social skills

B) language development

C) play

D) self-esteem

A) develop language more slowly than do infants with deafness who have hearing
parents.

B) tend to be overly dependent on their parents when they reach school age

C) develop ASL at a rate similar to the rate at which hearing infants develop
English

D) have difficulty relating to hearing children when placed in mainstream
preschool settings

A) emphasize lip movements.

B) encourage verbal babbling.

C) attend to eye gaze.

D) avoid use of speech.

A) Rochester

B) Gallaudet

C) Stanford

D) Georgetown

A) use ASL

B) use transliteration

C) use a hybrid of ASL and transliteration, Signed American Sign Language
(SASL)

D) can use either ASL or transliteration.

A) 10%

B) 5%

C) 50%

D) 90%

A) increasingly fewer employers are willing to employ workers who sign.

B) the manual trades that they typically prepare for are disappearing.

C) anti-discrimination laws do not cover students with inadequate training.

D) there will be increased competition for the same jobs by individuals with other
disabilities.

A) perpetuate the Deaf culture and use of ASL.

B) ensure that students learn age-appropriate social skills.

C) provide jobs for those who are deaf as workers in the schools.

D) overcome the negative effects of many home situations.