Deaf Experience/Ear Plug Experiment

Who it’s for: American Sign Language (ASL) instructors/educators.
What’s included: Activity description with details for students to follow on how to conduct the experience/experiment as well as how to compose the journal/paper. Rubric for educators to utilize to aid in grading the level of participation, thought, and composition. Formats offered doc, xls, and PDF – same information/questions on either file, per the name of the files.
Why it’s useful: As ASL instructors, we are often confronted with students that have not had personal exposure to d/Deaf world. In some cases, we simply live and teach in areas that are not highly concentrated with d/Deaf and therefore lack the ability to aid our students in experiencing the d/Deaf world. The purpose of the Deaf experience/Ear plug experiment is to give students a glimpse of what it is to be d/Deaf and operate within the hearing world.
Extra information: This project is intensive, but the purpose of the experience/experiment should warrant a more involved assignment. All parameters for the project are available for each instructor’s personal alteration. The Excel file contains a single tab/worksheet of the rubric. The Excel file will enable you to alter the headers and/or information therein. Also, with a bit of work, you should be able to modify the Excel file to compute students’ grades for you.