1. The unit lists several things to think about when considering what kind of job you’d like to have in the future. What accommodations might need to be provided for a deaf employee in that job? What are some roles that wouldn’t require any accommodations for a deaf employee?
2. Nora is deaf and works at a busy coffee shop as a barista. Her main duties include standing at the drive-through window taking customers payments, and handing them their beverages. What are the two reasonable accommodations that her employer might implement to make it easier for her to successfully do her job?
3. In this unit, you learned about black ASL. Do you some quick online research to learn about another type of sign language used by a specific group somewhere in the world what is similar about this type of sign language and black ASL? What is different?
4. In this unit, you learned that Rochester, New York, is home to a national technical Institute for the deaf at the Rochester Institute of technology, an innovative program that uses new and cutting-edge techniques to educate its students. Imagine that you are a deaf college student attending the national technical Institute for the deaf. What types of educational experience might you consider to be exciting and innovative for deaf students? Explain.