Deaf Culture
Roughly __ percent of Deaf children are born to hearing parents.
What is 90%?
This person was a author, educator, and activist who was the first Deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
What is Hellen Keller?
This classifier usually represents a single person's entire body walking upright.
What is CL:1?
These ASL stories are constructed by using only the handshapes of the alphabet in order from A to Z.
What is ABC Story?
This ASL sign uses CL:F (open to closed) moving away form the face to represent a small furry animal.
What is CAT?
In 1988, this protest occurred at Gallaudet University in response to a hearing president.
What is Deaf President Now?
This person was a French educator who co-founded the first school for the Deaf in the U.S.
Who is Laurent Clerc?
This classifier represents a flat surface.
What is CL:B?
This famous ASL Poet is best known for his use of color editing into his videos, specifically in a poem about an insect.
Who is Ian Sanborn?
This ASL sign uses CL:A (opened) in a circular movement to represent a common core class in schools.
What is SCIENCE?
The first school for the deaf, now known as the American School for the Deaf, was established by Deaf Frenchman Laurent Clerc and hearing American Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet in __ of the year __.
What is Hartford, Connecticut; 1817?
This Deaf individual was the inspiration for the establishment of the first school for Deaf children in the United States.
Who is Alice Cogswell?
This classifier represents small, round things.
EX: buttons.
What is CL:F?
In ASL storytelling the narrator takes on the persona of multiple characters by using this tactic.
What is role shifting?
This ASL sign uses CL:5 (open) with the fingers intertwined and moved in a circular movement.
What is AMERICA?
This is the percentage of hearing parents who learn to sign for their Deaf child.
What is 5-7%?
This Deaf individual was a Deaf actor, producer, director, playwright, artist and author who is notable for being the co-founder of the National Theatre of the Deaf.
Who is Bernard Bragg?
This classifier represents objects that stream or extend
EX: curtains, hair, streamers, rainbows
What is CL:4?
This is used to "look" at characters or objects placed in space, establishing who is talking or acting.
What is eye gaze?
This ASL sign uses CL:L that represents a system of communication.
What is LANGUAGE?
Historically this is a term used for those individuals who are culturally Deaf and use ASL as their primary communication mode.
What is Big "D" Deaf?
This Deaf individual was an American physicist, astronomer, and inventor best known for developing the acoustic coupler in 1964.
Who is Robert Weitbrecht?
This classifier represents, but is not limited to; short or shallow depths, thin shapes, and diminishing into the distance.
What is CL:G?
These ASL stories are highly physical, cinematic, and artistic that use body shifts, mime, and intense facial expressions to turn the body into the story itself, often resembling film techniques like panning or zooming.
What is Visual Vernacular (VV)?
This ASL sign uses CL:B that means to prevent someone from achieving a goal, to thwart plans, or to cause feelings of discouragement, annoyance, or anger.
What is FRUSTRATE?