Deaf Culture
What's the difference between Deaf and deaf?
Deaf refers to a cultural group, deaf refers to the condition of having hearing loss.
True or false: ASL is English, just on the hands.
False. ASL is its own language.
What do residential schools for the Deaf have in common with oral schools?
They're both for d/Deaf students.
Which of the following are languages? English, Cued Speech, the Rochester Method, Signing Exact English, Pidgin Sign English, ASL
English and ASL
What pronoun handshape would you use for "Go give the water bottle to her."
Indexing (pointing finger)
What three things do you need to be considered capital-D Deaf?
1. Some hearing loss
2. You communicate using ASL
3. You identify as culturally Deaf
Who invented ASL?
Nobody invents a language. ASL developed organically among a community of users, because it's a language.
What do oral schools have in common with mainstream settings?
Education takes place in spoken English.
What is Pidgin Sign English?
A blend of ASL and English-- ASL signs in mostly English word-order, but it happens naturally and preserves some features of ASL.
What pronoun handshape would you use for the sentence "Our preference for dessert is ice cream."
What is audism?
Discrimination on the basis of hearing status
What is the smallest unit of a sign that can change its meaning?
A parameter
Name one good thing and one bad thing about mainstream school settings.
Bad things: may be very isolated, may have poor language models
What is the Rochester Method?
When you fingerspell every word.
Put this sentence in the correct ASL order, and tell me where your eyebrows go for each part: I played ice hockey yesterday.
YESTERDAY ICE HOCKEY I PLAY
Name three cultural norms in the Deaf community.
Many correct answers
List the five parameters in ASL.
Handshape, Palm Orientation, Location, Movement, Nonmanual Signals
2 I-handshapes do SCHOOL
What group of people developed Signing Exact English?
Hearing people
YESTERDAY MY MOM, IXshe COOK WHATq SPAGHETTI.
Explain and give an example of the concept of Deaf Gain.
Things Deaf people cherish about the Deaf experience. This concept flips the concept of "hearing loss" to center a Deaf perspective. One example of Deaf gain is membership in a cultural group.
What sign is this:
HS: flat/open B
PO: in
Loc.: Chest, Stomach
Movement: circling motion
NMS: happy looking face
ENJOY
Show me the sign for mainstreaming. There are two ways to sign this.
either 5 handshapes, or one 5 handshape and one 1 handshape. Neutral space, palm down, hands start side by side and move toward the center and forward, one on top of the other.
Why were Signing Exact English, the Rochester Method, and Cued Speech developed, and why was this misguided?
To help Deaf people learn to read. This was misguided because Deaf people can easily learn English if they have access to ASL first.
Explain the test for how to decide which pronoun handshape to use.
Replace the pronoun with your name. If your name has an "s" sound on the end, that means it's the possessive/flat handshape. If your name does not have an "s" sound on the end, that means it's the indexing/pointing handshape.