ASL Book Seeing Voices - Chapter 3 (Questions and Answers)

Chapter 3
Who was most resistant to Stokoe’s deep study/analysis of sign language?
Deaf people/signers

What kind of attitude Alexander Graham Bell had toward the Deaf?
He saw deafness as a defect; something that needed to be fixed.

After Edward Gallaudet’s death, what did the college lose?
Gallaudet lost their best advocate for sign being seen as a language.

What was Gallaudet University’s official policy since 1982?
Gallaudet University's official policy was that all signing in classrooms needed to be signed English.

Who is King Jordan?
The first Deaf president of Gallaudet University.

What is meant by the fact that “deaf people have been seen as ‘clients’ when in fact they should be controlling things”?
It means that people thought hearing people know better than Deaf people; That they knew better how to run a Deaf school.

What surprises you about this chapter?
I was surprised that Dr. Zinser was elected the president of Gallaudet and she didn’t know sign language. I was confused how that could work.