RRL CONTENTS
1) Deaf Culture
a) Deaf Community: A brief history
b) Sign Language: The natural language of the Deaf
c) Hearing Devices: A Threat to Deaf Culture provide definition of deafness and degrees of
hearing loss from video, Libal, and Chartes
d) Paradigm Shift: From hearing loss to Deaf Gain from Bauman
e) Deaf Culture in the Philippines from Gaverza, de Gracia
2) Deaf Education
a) Communication Modes from Scheetz and Libal
i) Oral/Manual Approach
ii) Bilingual-Bicultural Approach
iii) Total Communication
b) Educational Settings and Environments from Marscharck, Scheetz, and Leigh
i) Residential School Programs (Segregated and Day Schools) from Luft
ii) Regular Education Classes (Included/Mainstreamed Programs)
iii) Comparison Between Segregated and Included/Mainstreamed Settings
iv) Role and Importance of Deaf schools in the 21st Century from Schembri
c) Case Studies- Deaf Schools Worldwide
i) Model Secondary School for the Deaf, Washington D.C. (USA)
ii) Kelston Deaf Education Centre, Auckland (New Zealand)
iii) Isinya School for the Deaf, Nairobi (Kenya)
iv) Delaware School for the Deaf, Brookside (USA)
d) A Brief History of Deaf Education in the Philippines from Gaverza, de Gracia
(continuation of Deaf culture in ph)
e) Case Studies- Deaf Schools in the Philippines
i) Benilde Deaf School (model school in ph)
ii) Philippine Institute for the Deaf
iii) Philippine School for the Deaf
3) Architecture for the Deaf
a) Disability and Architecture from Boys
b) Understanding the Proxemics of the Deaf from Chartes
c) Deaf Building Vernacular from Hauan, Byrd, and Bauman
d) DeafSpace Design Guidelines from Bauman
i) Sensory Reach
ii) Space and Proximity
iii) Mobility and Proximity
iv) Light and Color
v) Acoustics
vi) Summary of DSDG from Kariuki
e) Space as Experience: Multisensory Design from Lupp, Hauan, Chiambretto, and Kariuki
(explain Sensory Environments)
i) Vision
ii) Hearing
iii) Touch
iv) Taste
v) Olfactory
vi) Conclusion (why sensory design?)