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Deaf Academic Bowl
The National Deaf Academic Bowl is an academic competition for deaf and Hearing impairment, hard of hearing students founded by Gallaudet University in 1997. Past Champions * 1997 National Champions: California School for the Deaf, Riverside * 1998 National Champions: California School for the Deaf, Fremont * 1999 National Champions: California School for the Deaf, Fremont * 2000 National Champions: Model Secondary School for the Deaf * 2001 National Champions: Model Secondary School for the Deaf * 2002 National Champions: Florida School for the Deaf * 2003 National Champions: Indiana School for the Deaf * 2004 National Champions: Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind * 2005 National Champions: Maryland School for the Deaf * 2006 National Champions: Mountain Lakes High School * 2007 National Champions: John Hersey High School * 2008 National Champions: Indiana School for the Deaf * 2009 National Champions: University High School (Irvine, California) * 2010 National Champions: Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deaf
Deafness has varying definitions in cultural and medical contexts. In medical contexts, the meaning of deafness is hearing loss that precludes a person from understanding spoken language, an Audiology, audiological condition. In this context it is written with a lower case ''d''. It later came to be used in a cultural context to refer to those who primarily communicate through sign language regardless of hearing ability, often capitalized as ''Deaf'' and referred to as "big D Deaf" in speech and sign. The two definitions overlap but are not identical, as hearing loss includes cases that are not severe enough to impact spoken language comprehension, while cultural Deafness includes hearing people who use sign language, such as Child of deaf adult, children of deaf adults. Medical context In a medical context, deafness is defined as a degree of hearing difference such that a person is unable to understand speech, even in the presence of amplification. In profound deafness, e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
