Gallaudet
Deaf Schools
Famous Deafies
Classifiers
ASL Structure
100
This is the city where Gallaudet University is located.
What is Washington D.C.?
100
This is the name of the first school for the Deaf in the USA.
What is American School for the Deaf?
100
He was the first Deaf president of Gallaudet University.
Who is I. King Jordan?
100
This classifier represents vehicles.
What is CL:3?
100
This is the facial expression when asking "yes/no" questions.
What is "eyebrows up"?
200
This is the year Gallaudet University was originally established.
What is 1964?
200
This is the name of the Deaf school located in St. Augustine, FL.
What is Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind?
200
He was a famous baseball player who is said to have created the signs used in baseball to this day.
Who is Dummy Hoy?
200
This classifier represents a person.
What is CL:1?
200
This is the facial expression when asking "WH" questions.
What is "eyebrows down"?
300
This is the name of the protest the students ran in 1988.
What is Deaf President Now?
300
Which teaching method is often used in Deaf schools?
What is teaching using signs/ASL?
300
She is the only Deaf actress to have won an Academy Award.
Who is Marlee Matlin?
300
This classifier represents a person's legs or eyes.
What is CL:^?
300
This sign is used to indicate an action happened in the past.
What is "finished"?
400
This is the primary language used at Gallaudet University.
What is American Sign Language?
400
This is the name when Deaf students attend their local school near their home.
What is mainstreaming?
400
This is the name of a current popular TV show that follows Deaf teenagers in their everyday lives.
What is "Switched at Birth"?
400
This classifier is used when signing "parking lot" and "garage".
What is CL:3?
400
This is what an additional feature of our body used when signing to provide additional details about the topic being discussed.
What is facial expressions OR body shifting?
500
This is the president who signed the law establishing Gallaudet University.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
This is the teaching method for Deaf children that Alexander Graham Bell supported.
What is the oral method?
500
He was a pioneer in Deaf education who came from France to set up the American School for the Deaf.
Who is Laurent Clerc?
500
This classifier is used when signing "laying down", "standing up", and "watch".
What is CL:^?
500
This is the sentence structure commonly used in ASL for statements.
What is "topic-comment"?
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