Questão 1
Questão
From the physiological perspective, the distinction between "deaf" and "hard of
hearing" is based on...
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A) decibel levels detected.
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B) frequency of sounds detected.
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C) location of hearing loss.
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D) language ability
Questão 2
Questão
From an educational POV, how is "deafness" best defined?
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A) a condition present since birth
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B) an inability to understand speech even with a hearing aid
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C) a hearing loss of more than 90 dB in at least one ear
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D) a condition of old age
Questão 3
Questão
The term "hard of hearing" is used to describe people with hearing impairment who
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A) were not born deaf but became deaf later in life.
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B) find it "hard" (in their own subjective judgment) to hear as well as the rest of
the population.
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C) have a conductive hearing loss.
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D) have enough residual hearing to process sound with a hearing aid
Questão 4
Questão
Simon has a hearing loss that occurred when he was 7 years old.
His loss is best described as...
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A) conductive
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B) sensorineural
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C) congenital
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D) postlingual
Questão 5
Questão
According to the U.S. Department of Education, what % of students are
identified as deaf or hard of hearing?
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A) 14%
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B) 0.14%
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C) 1.4%
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D) 0.014%
Questão 6
Questão
People who say that deafness should not be considered a disability argue that...
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A) there is a difference between prelingual and postlingual deafness
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B) they should be considered a cultural minority with a language of their own.
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C) there are advantages to being deaf, so it is not a disability.
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D) although deafness is a handicap, it is not a disability.
Questão 7
Questão
The ossicles function to create
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A) increased sense of balance
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B) electrical impulse being sent to the brain
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C) transfer of energy from the middle to the inner ear
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D) a vacuum that stimulates hair cells
Questão 8
Questão
The most important organ for hearing is the
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A) cerumen
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B) tympanic membrane
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C) vestibular mechanism
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D) cochlea
Questão 9
Questão
Ideally, screening tests for babies should follow a
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A) 2-4-6 year rule
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B) 1-3-6 month rule
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C) 2-4-6 week rule
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D) 2-4-6 month rule
Questão 10
Questão
Pure-tone audiometry establishes
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A) detection and understanding of speech
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B) threshold for hearing at various frequencies
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C) kinds of hearing tests to be used
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D) presence of the Moro reflex
Questão 11
Questão
Most speech sounds have frequencies (pitch) that...
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A) have a very narrow range: 50-500 Hz
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B) have a range that is affected by altitude and humidity: 100-900 Hz
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C) have a range higher than long-haired dogs: 250-1,000 Hz
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D) have a wide range: 500-2,000 Hz
Questão 12
Questão
The "speech reception threshold" is best defined as the
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A) dB level at which one can understand speech.
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B) intensity and frequency of spoken English.
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C) Hz level at which the average person can detect sound.
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D) level at which the human ear can discriminate between similar sounds.
Questão 13
Questão
When testing the hearing of a two-year-old child, an audiologist should avoid use of
which type of audiometry?
Questão 14
Questão
All of the following identify the location of hearing loss EXCEPT...
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A) conductive
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B) mixed
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C) sensorineural
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D) adventitious
Questão 15
Questão
A condition in which the external auditory canal does not form is
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A) atresia
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B) otitis
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C) anoxia
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D) atrium
Questão 16
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A) is a myth, the external canal is impervious to infections.
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B) is medically known as external otitis, an infection of the skin of the external
auditory canal.
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C) is caused by allergies to algae in the water.
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D) is caused by a perforation of the eardrum.
Questão 17
Questão
The most severe hearing impairments are associated with which part of the ear?
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A) middle ear
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B) eardrum
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C) inner ear
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D) outer ear
Questão 18
Questão
All of the following are problems associated with inner ear hearing loss EXCEPT
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A) sound distortion
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B) balance problems
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C) ringing noises
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D) draining fluid
Questão 19
Questão
The most frequent viral cause of deafness in newborns is
Questão 20
Questão
Joanne is a 9-year-old girl with a hearing loss.
She can hear loud voices if they are within 1 ft. of her ear and can hear environmental sounds, though she usually can't identify them.
What degree of hearing loss does Joanne appear to have?
Questão 21
Questão
Signs in ASL consist of each of the following EXCEPT...
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A) handshape
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B) location
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C) intensity
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D) movement
Questão 22
Questão
Each of the following is true about sign language EXCEPT...
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A) It is a primitive, visual representation of oral language similar to mime
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B) It has grammatical structure at the sentence level and the word level
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C) There is no universal sign language
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D) Twins who are born deaf develop a signing system, but it is rudimentary and
less sophisticated than ASL
Questão 23
Questão
Each of the following is true about children who are deaf EXCEPT...
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A) They reach the same language development milestones in sign as children
without hearing loss do in spoken language, but at a slower rate.
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B) They reach the same language development milestones in sign at the same time
as children without hearing loss do in spoken language.
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C) They are at a distinct disadvantage regarding acquisition of spoken language.
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D) They are at a distinct disadvantage regarding acquisition of English language
comprehension
Questão 24
Questão
When performance tests, rather than verbal tests, are used...
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A) the IQ scores of both those who are hearing and those who are deaf are lower.
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B) the IQ scores of those who are deaf are lower than those who are hearing.
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C) the IQ scores of those who are deaf are higher than those who are hearing.
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D) there is no difference in IQ scores between those who are deaf and those who
are hearing.
Questão 25
Questão
With respect to phonology skills in students who are deaf...
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A) because they are virtually non-existent, they are largely irrelevant to their
learning to read.
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B) they should be ignored in reading instruction because they interfere with the
visual skills needed to learn sign.
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C) they are similar to phonology skills of students with reading disabilities.
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D) they are most easily acquired if they are integrated into a differentiated
curriculum model of instruction
Questão 26
Questão
Among students who are deaf, those who achieve the highest levels of literacy tend to have...
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A) hearing parents who teach them how to speak.
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B) parents who are deaf who teach them ASL.
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C) brothers and sisters who are hearing.
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D) parents who communicate with them using both ASL and speech
Questão 27
Questão
2 factors that seem to have a (+) effect on social adjustment are...
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A) < inclusion with hearing peers and having parents who hear
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B) < inclusion with hearing peers and having parents who are deaf
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C) > inclusion with hearing peers and having parents who hear
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D) > inclusion with hearing peers and having parents who are deaf
Questão 28
Questão
All of the following factors identify the Deaf community as a true culture EXCEPT...
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A) voluntary organizational networks such as National Theater of the Deaf
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B) historical awareness documenting people and events significant to deafness
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C) predominant pattern of intermarriage with people outside of the Deaf
community
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D) well-established behavioral guidelines with regard to such things as eye
contact and physical touching
Questão 29
Questão
A deaf baseball player for whom a petition has been circulated for him to be inducted
into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame is:
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A) Yogi Berra
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B) Johnny Lipon
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C) "Dummy" Hoy
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D) Al Kaline
Questão 30
Questão
A particularly controversial POV held by many members of the Deaf culture is that..
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A) children should not receive cochlear implants to improve their hearing.
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B) parents should not permit children who are deaf to learn English.
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C) all students who are deaf should attend residential schools until the age of 16.
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D) all citizens should be required to learn American Sign Language.
Questão 31
Questão
The genetic engineering debate regarding Deaf activism refers to members of the Deaf community who want to...
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A) eliminate embryos that have the Connexin-26 gene because in can cause
deafness
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B) physically alter a gene to cause a baby to be hearing
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C) eradicate deafness in vitro
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D) deliberately increase their chances of having a deaf child
Questão 32
Questão
The auditory-verbal approach encourages children with hearing impairment to...
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A) depend on their peers for sound cues
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B) use their residual hearing
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C) learn sign language as quickly as possible
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D) focus on visual cues
Questão 33
Questão
Teaching people with hearing impairments to use visual information (such as facial expressions) to understand what is being said to them is...
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A) speech-reading
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B) lipreading
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C) face reading
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D) gestural reading
Questão 34
Questão
The total communication approach uses
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A) Braille and manual communication.
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B) sign language and a typewriter.
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C) a telephone and a computer.
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D) oral and manual communication
Questão 35
Questão
Each of the following statements about signing English systems is true EXCEPT...
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A) They are the type of manualism most often used in total communication.
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B) They follow the same word order as spoken English.
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C) They include fingerspelling.
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D) They result in more fluency than ASL.
Questão 36
Questão
A principle underlying the bicultural-bilingual approach is...
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A) teaching the history of the Deaf culture instead of that of the dominant culture
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B) providing a foundation in spoken English to serve as a basis for ASL
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C) stressing that ASL is the primary language, and English is secondary
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D) encouraging hearing people to learn ASL as a second language
Questão 37
Questão
FM systems are used in conjunction with hearing aids to
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A) amplify sound.
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B) increase reverberation.
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C) provide individualized instruction.
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D) broadcast the schedule of daily events.
Questão 38
Questão
Virtually all new television programs are captioned for use by people with hearing impairment.
Federal law requires that TV's over 13 ins must...
Questão 39
Questão
A TT is a device for
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A) decoding closed captions on TV
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B) accessing teletext service
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C) printing sign language texts
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D) communicating via telephone
Questão 40
Questão
Currently, approximately what percentage of students with hearing impairments attends their local schools?
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A) 86%
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B) 8%
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C) 10%
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D) 18%
Questão 41
Questão
In recent years, many parents and professionals have ?ed the trend toward inclusion of children with hearing impairment because...
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A) it creates too much work for the general education teacher
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B) they do not get along with the other students
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C) it reduces their opportunity to participate in the signing community
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D) they do not have the cognitive or academic skills to succeed in the mainstream
Questão 42
Questão
Which statement about the assessment of progress of students who have hearing impairments is true?
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A) Curriculum-based measurement is not an appropriate method for measuring
reading fluency for these students.
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B) Most standardized assessments are biased towards the majority culture.
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C) Research does not support the development of phonics-based reading skills for
these students.
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D) Several standardized measures of reading ability are available for these
students.
Questão 43
Questão
The focus of early intervention for children with hearing impairments is on...
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A) social skills
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B) language development
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C) play
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D) self-esteem
Questão 44
Questão
Children with deafness who have parents who are also deaf...
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A) develop language more slowly than do infants with deafness who have hearing
parents.
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B) tend to be overly dependent on their parents when they reach school age
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C) develop ASL at a rate similar to the rate at which hearing infants develop
English
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D) have difficulty relating to hearing children when placed in mainstream
preschool settings
Questão 45
Questão
Frank, who is deaf, is the 6-month-old son of hearing parents.
To interact effectively with Frank, his parents should...
Questão 46
Questão
Until the mid-1960's the only institution specifically for post-2nd education of students with hearing impairments was...
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A) Rochester
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B) Gallaudet
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C) Stanford
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D) Georgetown
Questão 47
Questão
Sign language interpreters
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A) use ASL
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B) use transliteration
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C) use a hybrid of ASL and transliteration, Signed American Sign Language
(SASL)
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D) can use either ASL or transliteration.
Questão 48
Questão
What percentage of deaf children have hearing parents?
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A) 10%
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B) 5%
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C) 50%
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D) 90%
Questão 49
Questão
Students who are deaf who do not go on to post-2nd training may face increased obstacles to employment in the future because...
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A) increasingly fewer employers are willing to employ workers who sign.
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B) the manual trades that they typically prepare for are disappearing.
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C) anti-discrimination laws do not cover students with inadequate training.
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D) there will be increased competition for the same jobs by individuals with other
disabilities.
Questão 50
Questão
Many in the Deaf community believe that residential schools for children who are deaf are necessary to
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A) perpetuate the Deaf culture and use of ASL.
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B) ensure that students learn age-appropriate social skills.
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C) provide jobs for those who are deaf as workers in the schools.
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D) overcome the negative effects of many home situations.