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Peer Support And Food Security In Deaf College Students, Brianna Celeste Keogh May 2018

Peer Support And Food Security In Deaf College Students, Brianna Celeste Keogh

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

Objective: This paper investigates the role of peer support in food security among deaf college students. Participants: The sample included 166 college students who took the survey between May and October 2017. Methods: Participants completed a bilingual online survey in ASL and English. This survey included questions about peer support, the USDA’s 6-item food security module, and sociodemographic characteristics. Results: Out of 166 students (mean age=23; SD=6), 60.7% were food secure. About 26.4% (n= 43) were at-risk for food insecurity and another 12.9% (n=21) had very low food security. The sample included respondents who identified as people of color (54%) …

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Three Personality Traits Of Deaf Scientists: Openness, Extraversion, And - Uniquely - Agreeableness, Megan Majocha May 2018

Three Personality Traits Of Deaf Scientists: Openness, Extraversion, And - Uniquely - Agreeableness, Megan Majocha

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A common observation in higher education is that most deaf undergraduate students majoring in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) do not continue on to STEM careers. A smaller pool of deaf individuals persists in STEM and succeed in becoming scientists. Various reasons may explain this observation, one of which may involve personality traits. Certain personality traits have been found in scientists in the general population that differ from the general population: scientists have greater extraversion, conscientiousness, and openness on the Big Five Inventory (BFI) However, no study has focused on personality traits in deaf scientists. This study sought to …

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Staging Medea For D/Deaf Audiences In The 21st Century: Strategic Adaptation, Translation, And Production Approaches To Greek Theatre, Casey Johnson-Pasqua May 2018

Staging Medea For D/Deaf Audiences In The 21st Century: Strategic Adaptation, Translation, And Production Approaches To Greek Theatre, Casey Johnson-Pasqua

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Greek theatre and Deaf theatre are two forms of theatre that are on the opposite ends of a sensory spectrum. Greek theatre is auditory-based with an acoustically designed stage, seating twenty-five thousand. With two to three actors on the stage, movements are minimal, and masks are used to portray numerous characters. Visually based Deaf theatre uses movement through facial expression, body language, and American Sign Language. Because of this sharp contrast, there has been hesitancy in taking on a Greek play in Deaf theatre. Gallaudet University’s Theatre and Dance program has not produced an ancient Greek tragedy since Ethan Sinnott’s …

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Trust And Confidence: Law Enforcement And The Deaf Community, Nicole Mills May 2018

Trust And Confidence: Law Enforcement And The Deaf Community, Nicole Mills

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The purpose of this study is to highlight the factors that influence police legitimacy in students’ eyes. This study tests process-based model (view of police based on citizens’ experiences or sharing of experiences) hypotheses using data from 98 deaf/HH students from Gallaudet University, who successfully completed an online questionnaire. This study aims at describing correlations and regressions between police legitimacy and the identified significant factors (Perceived Police’s Compliance with the Law, Procedural Justice, Police Effectiveness, Moral Credibility, and Cooperation with the Police) which may determine legitimacy of the police. The imperative questions that this study seeks to address are: (1) …

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The Neural Substrates Of Communicative Actions: A Cognitive Psychophysiology Study Of Sign Language Production And Imitation In Deaf Signers And Hearing Non-Signers, Athena S. Willis May 2018

The Neural Substrates Of Communicative Actions: A Cognitive Psychophysiology Study Of Sign Language Production And Imitation In Deaf Signers And Hearing Non-Signers, Athena S. Willis

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What is the neurobiological underpinning of communicative actions? Studies have suggested that the same neural network of imitation is involved in producing communicative actions, regardless if the persons expressing communicative actions are deaf signers or hearing nonsigners. Through neuroimaging method and analysis, we can observe if experience with communicative actions leads to any differences in the neural processing of the one and two handed ASL signs in deaf signers and hearing non-signers. The results indicate that the posterior right parietal region of the brain shows a significant difference in activity during imitation of one handed and two handed ASL signs …

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Intersectional Experiences: White And Black Deaf Lesbians In Metro Dc 1980 - 2000, Paige E. Watson May 2018

Intersectional Experiences: White And Black Deaf Lesbians In Metro Dc 1980 - 2000, Paige E. Watson

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This study looks at the experiences of two groups with intersecting identities: white and Black Deaf lesbians who lived in Washington, DC from the 1980s to the early 2000s, a transformative period for lesbians. During the 1980s, the larger LGBT community united as one to push for recognition. The 1990s brought the lesbian feminist movement, and with it attention towards classism and sexism within the LGBT movement. During this period, the focus of the lesbian community shifted from a white and middle-class movement to a more inclusive one. However, even with this attention and the eventual fracturing of the LGBT …

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Gallaudet Today Volume 48 Number 1 Spring 2018, Phil Dignan Apr 2018

Gallaudet Today Volume 48 Number 1 Spring 2018, Phil Dignan

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Gallaudet Today Volume 47 Number 2 Fall 2017, Phil Dignan Oct 2017

Gallaudet Today Volume 47 Number 2 Fall 2017, Phil Dignan

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Improving Deaf Citizens' Participation In The American Electoral Process, Jehanne Mccullough Jul 2017

Improving Deaf Citizens' Participation In The American Electoral Process, Jehanne Mccullough

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

Improving Deaf people’s participation in politics involved a service-learning project with three activities. First, the Deaf People for Hillary campaign focused on maintaining nationwide social media platforms; increasing Deaf representation in the Hillary for America (HFA) campaign and its disability community taskforce; and testing get-out-the-vote (GOTV) strategies among Deaf people in the Nevada primary. Second, an internship with the HFA campaign at the national headquarters included a first in campaign and political party history: an American Sign Language (ASL) voter assistance videophone hotline operated by volunteers to serve all voters regardless of party. Third, a post-election survey of Deaf non-voters …

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Deaf Students Navigating The Rhetorical And Grammar Demands Of College Essay Writing, Thyra Wood May 2017

Deaf Students Navigating The Rhetorical And Grammar Demands Of College Essay Writing, Thyra Wood

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Today’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing college students have had a myriad of sociolinguistic experiences and come from a variety of linguistic backgrounds. Like other English Language Learners (ELLs), it is quite common for many of them to have difficulties with the writing demands of their college classes. What we know about Deaf students’ writing from previous studies has largely focused on grammar errors alone. Three of these studies examine the grammar and syntax errors of Deaf college students’ writing: Goldberg (1986); Sayers & Channon (2007); and Berent et al. (2008). All of these studies occurred, it could be suggested, …

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The Impact Of Stereotype Threat On Deaf Individuals, Jessica Kales May 2017

The Impact Of Stereotype Threat On Deaf Individuals, Jessica Kales

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Misconceptions and stereotypes about Deaf people’s verbal intelligence may lead to a social phenomenon known as stereotype threat. When a person is conscious of a stereotype about their group, they may experience stereotype threat, whereby apprehension related to a negative stereotype undermines performance (Steele, 2010). Participants for the study were 27 Deaf undergraduate students. Participants were randomly assigned to high threat or low threat conditions. Regardless of the condition, all participants were then asked to solve seven anagrams and five questions from the verbal portion of the Graduate Record Exam. Participants were asked to evaluate their performance on the anagrams …

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Gifts Of Character: A Father's Love Letter From His Hearing And Deaf Childhood, B. Mutisya Nzyuko May 2017

Gifts Of Character: A Father's Love Letter From His Hearing And Deaf Childhood, B. Mutisya Nzyuko

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

Using the power of the written word in a kind, loving, and inspirational manner, the author shares his childhood journey in personal essays to his children, from which they can draw inspiration, find instruction, get answers to some of their questions about life, and map their own destinies with a better understanding of their father’s struggles and victories. As a story from a specific period of the author’s life, Gifts of Character is a memoir, a story from a life, unlike an autobiography, which is the story of a life. The author recalls events and conversations, not verbatim, but from …

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Business Plan: Peacock Financial Advising, Kevin Peacock May 2017

Business Plan: Peacock Financial Advising, Kevin Peacock

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This business plan presents a service-based business, Peacock Financial Advising, which provides fee-only financial advice. Targeting the deaf and signing community, Peacock Financial Advising will provide investment, budgetary, and tax planning advice to educate and provide tools for clients so that they can build a solid financial foundation.

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Female Circumcision: Attitudes, Knowledge And Beliefs Within The Deaf Community, Morgane Vincent May 2017

Female Circumcision: Attitudes, Knowledge And Beliefs Within The Deaf Community, Morgane Vincent

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Female Genital Circumcision (FGC) is a cultural practice by which female genitalia are cut for non-medical purposes. Although the Western world has seen the number of circumcised youth rise, very few studies have been conducted in developed countries. Even fewer are studies on minority groups regarding female circumcision; none explicitly involve deaf people. For this study, 76 deaf or hard of hearing individuals living in the U.S., whose primary means of communication was English or American Sign Language, completed a survey about FGC before and after viewing videos. One video showed an African woman who had experienced FGC, and the …

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The Developmental Progression Of Cognitive Abilities In Deaf Children, Jacqueline N. Wunderlich May 2017

The Developmental Progression Of Cognitive Abilities In Deaf Children, Jacqueline N. Wunderlich

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Although there has been a copious amount of research on deaf children’s language acquisition and academic abilities, our knowledge concerning the development of nonverbal cognitive functioning in this population remains limited. The Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure (ROCF) is a commonly used neuropsychological tool for the assessment of visuospatial, visuoconstructional, visuomemory, and executive functioning abilities. As a language-reduced test, it seems ideal for use with deaf children. Previous studies using different scoring systems indicate that deaf children perform average to slightly above average on the ROCF compared with hearing youth. However, minimal normative data and established cognitive developmental patterns for deaf children …

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Gallaudet Today Volume 47 Number 1 Spring 2017, Phil Dignan Apr 2017

Gallaudet Today Volume 47 Number 1 Spring 2017, Phil Dignan

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Cochlear Implants And Related Neurotechnologies: Japanese Perspectives In Deaf Neuroethics, Zachary Clayton Abbott Dec 2016

Cochlear Implants And Related Neurotechnologies: Japanese Perspectives In Deaf Neuroethics, Zachary Clayton Abbott

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

Asian neuroscience and neurotechnology (neuroS/T) research and development will surpass that of the United States and Europe, achieving a 60% increase in overall market growth, within the next decade. One area of ethical interest in neuroS/T involves auditory technologies: cochlear implants, middle ear prosthetics, bone-anchor hearing aids. A survey collected data on Japanese and U.S. attitudes of deafness as a disability, awareness of auditory technologies, and beliefs regarding psychosocial implications of such interventions. This survey is particularly timely because of shifts in attitudes toward these technologies and deaf identity between younger and older Japanese people in the direction of U.S. …

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An Oral History Of Homophobic Bullying In All-Deaf Schools And Mainstream Schools: The Experiences Of Deaf Lesbian And Gay Persons, Andrew D. Biskupiak Nov 2016

An Oral History Of Homophobic Bullying In All-Deaf Schools And Mainstream Schools: The Experiences Of Deaf Lesbian And Gay Persons, Andrew D. Biskupiak

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

Deaf lesbian and gay individuals encounter homophobic bullying when receiving their high school education at all-deaf and/or mainstream schools, yet their experiences of homophobic bullying continue to be insufficiently documented and reported in the existing literature. Using oral history interviews with ten deaf lesbian (n=4) and gay students (n=6) attending Gallaudet University, this report documents the interviewees’ personal narratives of homophobic bullying in high school and examines the prevalence and impact of verbal and physical abuses as two forms of homophobic bullying. Patterns involve geographic location and public versus private mainstream schools. Further research could address types of mainstream schools; …

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Sign & Share: Full-Stack International Video Sharing Website, Shuxu Tian May 2016

Sign & Share: Full-Stack International Video Sharing Website, Shuxu Tian

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

Inspired by VL2 bilingual story apps that focus on American Sign Language and English, this project provides a new application for sharing multi-lingual signed and written stories to a worldwide audience. VL2 story apps include only ASL and English, and are for purchase; VL2 also sells the code to develop stories in other languages, but the code requires technical expertise to use. My new app uses a special set of tools to allow sharing stories in any signed language and written forms of spoken languages without cost and without the need for technical expertise. Known as Sign and Share, this …

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The White Church: A Young Adult Novel, Jenna Kaye Fox May 2016

The White Church: A Young Adult Novel, Jenna Kaye Fox

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I'm not going to lie; I still have nightmares. One moment Robert was kissing me, and the next he looked at [his wife] Shirley in the eyes and pulled the trigger. I saw the white church, the willow tree, and Shirley's grave. I heard Robert whisper, ‘devour’ against my hearing aid. It was all my fault. I blamed myself over and over.... Kate writes this wrenching confession in her diary. Her experiences with her pedophilic confirmation teacher had been haunting her until she finally gathered courage to fill blank pages with her thoughts and emotions. The young adult, epistolary novel …

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Gallaudet Today Volume 46 Number 1 Spring 2016, Phil Dignan Apr 2016

Gallaudet Today Volume 46 Number 1 Spring 2016, Phil Dignan

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Gallaudet Today Volume 46 Number 2 Winter 2016-2017, Phil Dignan Jan 2016

Gallaudet Today Volume 46 Number 2 Winter 2016-2017, Phil Dignan

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Gallaudet Today Volume 45 Number 2 Fall 2015, Phil Dignan Oct 2015

Gallaudet Today Volume 45 Number 2 Fall 2015, Phil Dignan

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Radiate: A Faith-Based Magazine For College-Age Christian Women, Kayla Head May 2015

Radiate: A Faith-Based Magazine For College-Age Christian Women, Kayla Head

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

Radiate exists to provide the college-age Christian woman with a faith-based resource; to strengthen her walk with Christ, the magazine will offer support, encourage growth, provide information, and include uplifting content. In addition to the mission statement, Radiate has three core convictions that serve as keys to the heart of how it hopes to serve its readers: to walk alongside you during this transitional season of life, to foster growth in your relationship with Jesus Christ and other Christ-followers, and to educate you about issues and conversations within Christian culture. The idea for this project came out of a personal …

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Tip's Book Of Tips: Dating In Dc, August E. Shitama May 2015

Tip's Book Of Tips: Dating In Dc, August E. Shitama

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August Shitama’s collection of short stories is a bitingly frank look into the experiences of a deaf, gay college student navigating the dating world in Washington, DC. Written from some of Shitama’s own experiences, the stories could be considered semi-autobiographical, but with enough embellishments and changes to fit the satirical fiction genre. The critical introduction covers the influences for Shitama’s writing in regard to the theme and style, thematically from bestselling gay authors, David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs as well as Deaf gay author Raymond Luczak, and stylistically from gay Deaf writer Derrick Behm as well as Shitama’s favorite satirical …

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Gallaudet Today Volume 45 Number 1 Spring 2015, Catherine Murphy Apr 2015

Gallaudet Today Volume 45 Number 1 Spring 2015, Catherine Murphy

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, July 27, 2014, Barry Strassler Jul 2014

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, July 27, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2014

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Deafdigest: Blue Edition, July 27, 2014, Barry Strassler Jul 2014

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, July 27, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2014

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Deafdigest: Blue Edition, July 20, 2014, Barry Strassler Jul 2014

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, July 20, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2014

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, July 20, 2014, Barry Strassler Jul 2014

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, July 20, 2014, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2014

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