General Vocabulary
National Anthem Vocabulary
Deaflympics
Assistive & Accessibility
ASL Terminology
100
(Teacher signs the word)
What is 'voice off?'
100
Sign: STARS
(Student shows sign: "STARS ++ above")
100
A type of signal to start the race
What are flashing lights?
100
A common custom earpiece. The picture seen here:
What is a hearing aid?
(or what is BTE?)
100
An ASL classifier 'whose broad stripes' from the National Anthem portrayed shape to represent the object.
What is descriptive classifier?
200
Teacher signs the word)
What is JOIN / PARTICIPATE?
200
Sign: RAMPART
(Student shows sign: "top of the wall")
200
A historic milestone, the 100th anniversary, will be hosted in this country
What is Tokyo, Japan?
200
A system which ADA requires visual signal in buildings where all devices flash at the same time to alert emergency.
What is a fire alarm?
200
Handshape, Location, Movement, Palm-Orientation are known as these.
What are parameters?
300
(Teacher signs the word)
What is TRANSLATION?
300
Sign: PERILOUS
(Student shows sign "AWFUL")
300
The original name for deaf athletes to participate in 1924
What is International Silent Games?
300
A type of assistive listening device that transmits audio directly to hearing aids with a telecoil. The picture seen here:
What is a hearing loop?
300
A form shape from the lips to convey different meanings and grammatical aspects of ASL. "PAH" is an example.
What is mouth morpheme?
400
(Teacher signs the word)
What is COMPARISON?
400
Sign: NATIONAL
(Student shows sign: "NATION")
400
A tennis player overcame the improbable challenge in the Men's Singles Tennis Finals at the World Games for the Deaf.
Who is Bradford Minns?
400
An older model communication devices type messages that are then converted into electrical signals that travel through the phone line where the recipient reads the typed message.
What is teletypewriter / TTY??
400
A type of cue using the wh-words that is asked without expecting an answer or don't expect anyone to provide an answer.
What is a rhetorical question?
500
(Teacher signs the word)
What is BENEFIT?
500
Sign: SPANGLED
(not sign in the song, the word itself)
(Student shows sign: "SHINING")
500
The moto of the Deaflympics
What is "Equal through Sports?"
--> To cherish the value and the spirit of Deaflympics
500
A method uses a human captioner uses technology from spoken audio description to accurate word for word.
What is CART (Communication Access of Real-time Translation)?
500
Creating ‘markers’ to grasp a better picture whether it is a person or location to help make the storyline clear.
What is spatial agreement?