Stretching Your Mind Why Words

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Stretching Your MindWhy Words??

• Presented by
• Karen Dishno
• ASL Weekend 2009

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Who is Karen?

• Family of 4 deaf siblings, parents deaf
• Grew up on farm
• Attended schools in Milwaukee and Columbus
• Has CDI, workshop junkie
• Works at ODHH for 20 years
• See errors on WITA materials

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WITA Errors

• Working with WITA for many years
• See many errors
• Top errors are prosody and interpreting process
• Can not focus on everything
• Narrow down to visualization and use prosody tools

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Today

• Deaf mentors to work with you
• First half hour will watch videos
• Will also look at pictures
• Last half hour will look at collections of blurb

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Thinking ProcessGeneral Perception (sight
sound)

• Edge detection (what fits in?)
• Forming of Primitives (identify/categorize)
• Figure-ground discrimination (foundation of a
  language and visual means)
• Organization of the above into configurations
  that can be treated as single perceptual units

Winn, W. Instructional Message Design Principles
from Behaviorial and Cognitive Sciences. Ed.
Tech. Publications, 1993
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The Lang. Acq./Interp. Process Model
The EIPA Theoretical Design
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Let us get start!

• Name primary words that fit in
• Solar System
• Civil War
• California Gold Rush
• H1n1
• Kitchen
• A Courtroom
• Iraq
• A workshop

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Next step?

• Practice!
• Go to several websites
• www.deafread.com
• www.deafjoke.tv
• Youtube
• Thank you!