Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL) is the moving of your hands to form letters, conjoining the words letters would give you a word. Sign lanugage is used for deaf and people who have struggles while hearing. While speaking, most would raise their voice if asking a question. In signing, the person would raise thier eybrows as a symbol of questioning. If you have a child, or are deaf yourself, suggest learning ASL as soon as possilbe. The faster someone is taught the more they can learn and comprehend. ASL is different amongst different countries, Britain is BSL, using different fingering. 9 out of 10 children who are deaf, came form parents who had hearing.
It is also just as important to get your child's hearing screeened. While young, infants learn to talk by following what someone else around them is saying. When a child is born, it's best to get their hearing checked before leaving the hospital. If the tests come back saying they might have hearing loss, doctors suggest going the an audiologist when the child is around 3 months old to give a more advanced and thorough screening. When getting screened there are 2 different types of test that can be taken to screen hearing loss. According to http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/, Otoacoustic emissions (OAE) test shows whether parts of the ear respond properly to sound. During this test, a soft sponge earphone is inserted into your baby’s ear canal and emits a series of sounds to measure an “echo” response that occurs in normal hearing ears. If there is no echo, it could indicate hearing loss. Auditory brain stem response (ABR) test checks how the auditory brain stem (the part of the nerve that carries sound from the ear to the brain) and the brain respond to sound by measuring their electrical activity as your child listens. During this test, your baby wears small earphones in the ears and electrodes on the head. Your baby might be given a mild sedative to keep him or her calm and quiet during the test. If your child doesn’t respond consistently to the sounds presented during either of these tests, your doctor will suggest a follow-up hearing screening and a referral to an audiologist for a more comprehensive hearing evaluation. If hearing loss is confirmed, it’s important to consider the use of hearing devices and other communication options before your baby is 6 months old.
It is also just as important to get your child's hearing screeened. While young, infants learn to talk by following what someone else around them is saying. When a child is born, it's best to get their hearing checked before leaving the hospital. If the tests come back saying they might have hearing loss, doctors suggest going the an audiologist when the child is around 3 months old to give a more advanced and thorough screening. When getting screened there are 2 different types of test that can be taken to screen hearing loss. According to http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/, Otoacoustic emissions (OAE) test shows whether parts of the ear respond properly to sound. During this test, a soft sponge earphone is inserted into your baby’s ear canal and emits a series of sounds to measure an “echo” response that occurs in normal hearing ears. If there is no echo, it could indicate hearing loss. Auditory brain stem response (ABR) test checks how the auditory brain stem (the part of the nerve that carries sound from the ear to the brain) and the brain respond to sound by measuring their electrical activity as your child listens. During this test, your baby wears small earphones in the ears and electrodes on the head. Your baby might be given a mild sedative to keep him or her calm and quiet during the test. If your child doesn’t respond consistently to the sounds presented during either of these tests, your doctor will suggest a follow-up hearing screening and a referral to an audiologist for a more comprehensive hearing evaluation. If hearing loss is confirmed, it’s important to consider the use of hearing devices and other communication options before your baby is 6 months old.
Braille
Braille is a code used for the blind to know what objects are or how many of each thing. In Braille there is a cell, which consists of 6 dot. Each arrangment of dots can form a letter or a number. When added together, it forms words. Article words are also formed within a single cell. For example, the word and, is known by dots 1,2,3,4,6. Some pre-fixes and suf-fixes are also written through Braille. For example, the suf-fix, ed, is written with dottings of 1,2,4,6. With Braille, there is also abbrieviations of longer words. Such as tomorrow, it is written with only the dottings of T and M together. In all, there are 189 contractions in Braille. Which is very helpful in saving space while writing books in Braille, which books are larger. Punctuation and grammar are also available in Braille. A period marking, or declarative sentence, is used by 2,5,6. An exclamation point is the dotting of 2,3,5. To capitalize a word, there must be dotting of only 6. To capitalize the whole phrase, you would make two separate dottings of only slot 6. To have a comma is using only the 3rd slot.
With Braille, there are 2 types of Braille to learn. The first is Uncontracted Braille, known as Grade 1 Braille. The other is Contracted Braille, known as Grade 2 Braille. Uncontracted Braille is the dotting of the whole word. In Grade 2 Braille, it's using contractions of the words, such as tomorrow, to make the phrase shorter. Literary Braille is used in books, magazines and schooling. Other forms of Braille can be used by just blind people to create math problems and even music!
Fun Fact: The first ten letters, a through j, all use the top part of the braille cell: dots 1, 2, 4, and 5.
The next ten letters, k through t, are made by adding dot 3 to each of the first 10 letters.
In the final row of the alphabet, all of the letters—with the exception of "w"!—are formed by adding dot 6 to the previous row.
The letter 'w' isn't included because when Louis Braille started the system France didn't have "w" in their alphabet!
With Braille, there are 2 types of Braille to learn. The first is Uncontracted Braille, known as Grade 1 Braille. The other is Contracted Braille, known as Grade 2 Braille. Uncontracted Braille is the dotting of the whole word. In Grade 2 Braille, it's using contractions of the words, such as tomorrow, to make the phrase shorter. Literary Braille is used in books, magazines and schooling. Other forms of Braille can be used by just blind people to create math problems and even music!
Fun Fact: The first ten letters, a through j, all use the top part of the braille cell: dots 1, 2, 4, and 5.
The next ten letters, k through t, are made by adding dot 3 to each of the first 10 letters.
In the final row of the alphabet, all of the letters—with the exception of "w"!—are formed by adding dot 6 to the previous row.
The letter 'w' isn't included because when Louis Braille started the system France didn't have "w" in their alphabet!