Parameters
ASL History
The Ear
Deaf Community
Misc.
100
There is this amount of parameters in ASL.
What is 5 parameters?
100
These are the founders of Gallaudet University.
What is Thomas Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc?
100
Name the 3 parts of the ear.
What is the outer, middle, and inner?
100
This is what deaf people prefer to be called.
What is "Deaf"?
100
This person is someone that translates for people who speak a different language to people who also speak a different language.
What is an interpreter?
200
This parameter that includes facial expression, gestures etc.
What are non-manual markers?
200
This is the name of the first deaf president at Gallaudet University.
What is Dr. I King Jordan?
200
Name the 3 tiny bones in the middle ear.
What are the malleus, incus, and stapes?
200
Name 2 terms that should NOT be directed torwards deaf people.
What is "deaf and dumb", "deaf mute", or "hearing impaired".
200
This is how you get a deaf persons attention.
What is by waving your hands torward them until they made eye contact with you?
300
This parameter includes where the sign is on the body.
What is location?
300
This is the year that the first protest occured at Gallaudet University.
What is 1988?
300
This part of the inner is shaped like a spiral and it can be translplanted.
What is the cochlea?
300
What percentage of deaf people in the United States are actually apart of the deaf community?
What is approximatley 10 percent?
300
Sometimes the doctor uses these to get the baby out if it is not placed correctly in the birth canal.
What is forceps?
400
This parameter refers to the direction in which the palm of your hand is facing.
What is palm orientation?
400
This is what the students of Gallaudet University protested about in the year 1988.
What was that they wanted a deaf president at their University, not a hearing one?
400
This is what the cochlea is filled with.
What is fluid?
400
Name the device that deaf people use as a communication device.
What is a TTY?
400
This is what written ASL is.
What is glossing?
500
Name the 5 parameters.
What are location, handshape, palm orientation, movement, and non-manual markers?
500
This is the year that the first school for the deaf in the United States was established.
What is 1864?
500
Some deaf people put this in there ear to "turn up the volume" so they can hear better.
What is a hearing aid?
500
Name the 2 countries that use American Sign Language today.
What is the United States and Canada?
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