Vocab:
The term used to label a hearing child born to a deaf parent(s).
What is a CODA?
The year the first electric hearing aid was invented.
What was 1901?
Name one (or more) common palm orientation.
Palm Facing Out
Palm Facing In
Palm Facing Up
Palm Facing Down
Palm Facing Sideways
The first deaf and blind person to earn a college degree.
Who was Hellen Keller?
A feature that displays text of spoken words.
What is closed captioning?
The date that National Deaf History Month was celebrated for the first time in the United States.
What was March 13, 2006?
True or False:
Facial Expressions are NOT important when you are signing.
False.
The founders of the first American School for the Deaf.
Who were Laurent Clerc and Thomas Gallaudet?
A hearing professional.
What is an Audiologist?
The student protest at Gallaudet University that demanded the appointment of a deaf president instead of a hearing president.
What was the Deaf President Now movement?
Refers to the specific shape/configuration make with your fingers and hand.
What are handshapes?
The deaf and mute baseball player who is widely credited for developing the hand count for umpires and signals used by coaches in baseball.
Who was William "Dummy" Hoy?
A graph that plots and presents the results of a pure-tone hearing test.
What is an audiogram?
A Dictionary of American Sign Language was created, which sparked the interest for many to learn the language.
What was 1965?
The hand you use while you are signing and fingerspelling, which also is typically the hand you write with.
What is your dominant hand?
The first deaf president appointed at Gallaudet University.
Who was I. King Jordan?
What does bicultural mean?
The act passed in 1990 that outlawed discriminatory practices toward the deaf community, employment and education opportunities.
What was the Americans with Disabilities Act?
The various facial expressions, head tilting, shoulder raising, mouthing, etc. that we add to signs to create or influence meaning.
What are non-manual markers?
The American founder of the girl scouts, who also volunteered and helped provide materials and services throughout World War 1.
Who was Juliette “Daisy” Magill Kinzie Gordon Low?