Facts
What percentage of deaf people have deaf parents?
What is 5%
In general, what is the least effective communication strategy between deaf and hearing people?
What is lipreading and speech?
What is the preffered language of the deaf community?
The way Deaf culture and ASL is passed from one generation to the next is through family and schools for the deaf.
True
What are some ways to get the attention of a deaf person appropriately?
What is tapping on the shoulder, waving, stomping, and flashing the lights?
What two countries use ASL as a primary?
Where is Canada and USA
When signing with someone, where is it appropriate to focus one's attention?
Where is on their face?
What are the non-manuals for a WH-question? Yes, no question?
What is scrunched eyebrows and tilting of the head.
What is raised eyebrows.
When ecountering a deaf person as an ASL student, you should set the communication mode. You should also inform them you know sign by speaking clearly and relaying the information in ASL.
False
What are some communication strategies used by deaf and non-signing hearing people?
What are gestures, writing or typing, signing, lip reading and speaking, or using an intermediary (other person)?
What is assistive technology?
If you have to pass through a pair of deaf people signing to each other, what should you do?
What is walk through quickly?
What do you do if you arrive late in the middle of a conversation?
What is wait for a break in the conversation and then explain the details around being late?
Time typically falls second in an ASL sentence.
False
What information should you give a deaf person while being an ASL student?
Other than the word "Deaf", are there any other culturally appropriate terms? What are the inappropriate ones?
Appropriate : Only deaf.
Inappropriate : Deaf and Dumb, Hearing Impaired, and deaf-mute.
How do you show that you understand a signer during a conversation?
What is nod, use "wow," "really," and "huh?", add comments when appropriate, and give a look when you do not understand?
What is specifying brands and names of people or places?
ASL is wrongly described as english on the hands, and a bunch of mime and gestures.
True.
What are the parameters? What happens to the meaning once the parameters change?
What IS American Sign Language?
What is a language capable of expressing abstract ideas which utilizes space and movement to convey meaning
If you are referring to a person who is not present, what ways can you refer to them?
What is contrastive structure, ranking on the non-dominant hand, and pointing to where you last saw the person or towards the location of where they are?
When identifying someone, what strategies should you use to describe them?
What is gender, appearance, body position, and action?
The difference between Deaf people and deaf people is that Deaf has hearing loss and uses ASL primarily, while deaf has hearing loss and uses speech primarily.
True.
What is having your elbow down and relaxed, making sure your letters flow smoothly, keeping your hand straight and within sightline of the listener, and making sure your palm faces away from your body?