Lesson 2 Video

1.  In your own words explain the 2 Worlds they talk about.

A hearing world and a deaf world. Earth refers to the world of hearing (ear) and Eyeth refers to the visual world (eye).

2.  Gallaudet’s football team created the huddle so they could communicate without anyone seeing what they were saying.

3.  People had many different ways to try to “cure” deafness.  What were two of them? 

Deaf flights, they also turned to medicine. A box that produced heat waves attached to your ear.

4.  Did Black Deaf people and White Deaf people sign the same way? 

No they sign differently. Whites tend to finger spell more.

5.  For 90 years Deaf people couldn’t use the telephone.  Then in 1964 a “deaf telephone” was created.  What was it called? 

TTY it connected phone calls from deaf people to the typewriter so that it would type out and be understood.

6.  What was so significant about this invention?

After it many other inventions were made to help the deaf, closed caption, video calls etc. It allowed deaf people to make phone calls to their bosses that they were not coming in to work. It also allowed a way for a deaf person to call 911 if they need help and many other aspects.