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Audism Unveiled Movie Worksheet
1. The movie begins with “Attention: The following movie is subtitled for the signingimpaired.” This is an example of Deaf humor but also what underlying message do you
think they are making known by doing so?
2. What were the 3 reasons that the first woman did not get hired for a job in Texas?
3. When in group conversations or watching movies without captions what response do
Deaf hate the most from hearing people?
4. What is one punishment for signing in school?
5. What are examples of discrimination throughout the world shown in the movie?
6. When does oppression occur?
7. Different names for oppression are:
8. Not until the year
that a scholar named
was time to find a name for oppression against Deaf.
felt it
9. What is “Audism?”
10. Why do some view Deaf as “subhuman?”
AUDISM & FAMILY:
11. What are forms of audism amongst families?
WHEN IS LATER TOO LATE?:
12. Write your thoughts on what happened to the man who’s Mom died and was never
able to communicate with him:
13.
% of Deaf children live in homes where members do NOT use sign
language regularly.
AUDISM CURE:
14. Why do some hearing families view having a deaf child as devastating?
15. How does religion supposedly cure deafness?
16. After religion fails to cure deafness what do parents turn to?
17. What were some scientific methods for curing deafness?
18. In the 19th and 20th centuries, a scientific movement in genetics began that was called :
. What is it?
19. Three ways this movement prevented Deaf from entering the gene pool of the “pure”
race were:
20. How many sterilization laws did not include Deaf citizens?
21. HGP stands for what?
22. How many deaf genes were identified?
23. 3 ways to prevent deafness genetically are:
AUDISM: EDUCATION
24. What 2 things has Deaf education consisted of?
25. Historically, the educational system viewed sign as a language for animals. It was
thought by teaching speech, deaf students would be molded into
.
26. What was one way that teachers punished Deaf students for signing?
27. Historically sign was looked down upon until educators started to realize that Deaf
students were visual learners and sign language had value. Sign was brought into the
classroom. However, they saw it was not in
so they manipulated it. This
was called:
.
28.
was also used to keep speech in classrooms.
29. What does the act “I.D.E.A” stand for, and what was its purpose?
30. Which is the least restrictive environment? Mainstreaming or Deaf Institutes?
31. Society has long regarded Deaf people as
.
32. “DPN” not only influenced Gallaudet University but also:
33. Deaf can’t take
an action that warrants a lawsuit.
to court. However,
34. Deaf peoples’ resistance of oppression is revealed through their:
35. What point do the Deaf emphasize at the end of the movie?
is a legal term for