DEAF CULTURE
This term describes people who share ASL, values, and traditions of the Deaf community?
Deaf Culture
This famous school in Washington, D.C. is the world’s only university designed for Deaf and hard-of-hearing students?
Gallaudet University
In ASL, location refers to where a sign is made on or near the body or in this area?
Signing space
This ASL handshape uses the index finger pointing up?
The “1” handshape
This silent film star, known for physical comedy in movies like The Kid and City Lights, was profoundly deaf?
Charlie Chaplin
Instead of clapping, Deaf audiences show applause by doing this with their hands?
Waving hands in the air
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet worked with this Deaf French teacher to help bring sign language to America?
Laurent Clerc
Many ASL signs are made near this part of the body to show thinking or knowledge?
The head / forehead
This handshape is made with all fingers closed and the thumb across the fingers?
The “S” handshape
This Deaf model and actor won America’s Next Top Model (Cycle 22) and Dancing with the Stars (Season 22)?
Nyle DiMarco
A capital “D” in Deaf refers to someone who identifies with Deaf culture and uses this language?
American Sign Language (ASL)
This event in 1988 protested for a Deaf president at Gallaudet University?
Deaf President Now (DPN)
This body area is commonly used for signs related to feelings or emotions?
The chest / heart area
Fingerspelling uses these handshapes to represent letters of the alphabet?
Alphabet handshapes (A–Z)
He became the first legally Deaf offensive NFL player and won a Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks?
Derrick Coleman
Eye contact is important in Deaf culture because communication is mainly based on this sense?
Vision / Visual communication
American Sign Language developed from French Sign Language and this early American school founded in 1817?
The American School for the Deaf
Changing the location of a sign can change this?
The meaning of the sign
Changing only the handshape while keeping movement and location the same can change this?
The meaning of the sign
This Deaf actress won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Children of a Lesser God?
Marlee Matlin
Name one polite way to get a Deaf person’s attention?
Tap on the shoulder or flash the lights
This communication method focuses on speech and lip-reading and once banned sign language in many schools?
Oralism
Name one sign pair that changes meaning when the location changes?
Mother / Father
ASL shape refers to the form or position of the hands used to make a sign?
Handshape
He was a Deaf author and educator who helped bring American Sign Language into schools in the 1800s?
Laurent Clerc