Classifiers
Educational Settings for DHH Students
Making Requests
Room Layout
Cochlear Implants
100

This type of classifier moves

What is a process classifier?

100

This school is for Deaf/Hard of Hearing students, and many of the students live there during the school year.

What is a Residential School?

100

PLEASE, and PLEASE FOR ME are used in this type of request

What is a formal request?

100

Watch the following video. My keys are on the:

What is the table?

100

This part of the cochlear implant is surgically implanted in the brain

What is the processor?

200

This letter handshape is often used as a classifier for coins, eyes moving, pearl necklace

What is F?

200

This school has a mix of hearing and Deaf students, and Deaf students often feel out of place.

What is a mainstream school?

200

NOT-MIND is used in this type of request

What is an informal request?

200

Watch the video. My favorite shirt is

What is in the laundry basket?

200

The wire attached to the cochlea has these attached to stimulate the cochlea and auditory nerve

What are electrodes?

300

This letter handshape shows the classifiers for a head nodding, peeking through a door, an animal stretching 

What is S?

300

This type of educational setting is in a mainstream school, but Deaf students are typically separated from their hearing peers during their core classes

What is a self-contained classroom?

300

In English the sentence: I'm tired, can I borrow your blanket? would be this in gloss

What is ME TIRED NOT-MIND YOUR BLANKET ME BORROW?

300

Watch the following video: I found the TV remote

What is under the couch?

300

The processor bypasses the brain stem and sends sound signals directly from the cochlea to this:

What is the brain?

400

This number handshape is used as a classifier for a moving car or an animal

What is 3?

400

An advantage of this educational setting is that Deaf students receive a bilingual/bicultural education (they learn in both ASL and English)

What is a Residential School?

400

In English, the sentence I'm hungry, will you please buy me some dinner? in gloss would be: 

What is ME HUNGRY PLEASE FOR ME DINNER YOU BUY?

400

Watch the video: I found the soap

What is under the sink?

400

The cochlear implant mimics this, although it sounds more artificial

What are natural sounds?

500

This type of classifier does not move or is stationary

What is a stative classifier?

500

A disadvantage of this educational setting is that Deaf students maybe required to take speech therapy

What is a mainstream school?

500

The gloss: ME HEADACHE HAVE PLEASE FOR ME YOU MEDICINE GIVE-ME in English is: 

What is I have a headache, will you please get me some medicine?

500

Watch the video: My brother found his basketball

What is in the toy basket?

500

The Deaf Community is largely divided on the use of cochlear implants, with many feeling that it is another way for hearing people to:

What is fix Deaf people/deafness?

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