Famous Deaf People
This actor starred in a movie called "Children of a lesser god" and won an oscar.
Who is Marlee Matlin?
This famous deaf university is found is Washington DC.
What is Gallaudet University?
This is the most common sign language used in the U.S.
What is American Sign Language?
This number is the last number you can count to on one hand in ASL.
What is the number 999?
This term describes children born to deaf parents but who can hear.
What is child of deaf adults (CODA)?
This actor starred in a show called "Switched at birth".
Who is Sean Berdy?
This deaf French teacher helped bring sign language to the states and helped influence ASL.
Who is Laurent Clerc?
This device helps hearing people understand spoken words showing text.
What are captions?
This part of signing includes facial expressions and body language that affect meaning.
What are non-manual signals?
This device helps deaf people see when sounds are happening, like flashing lights or alarms.
What is a visual alert system?
This deaf athlete is a professional wrestler and became famous by starring in the WWE.
Who is Anthony Robles?
This deaf president protest happened in 1988 at Gallaudet University.
What is deaf president now?
This service helps deaf people to make phone calls using a video interpreter.
What is The Video Replay Service (VRS)?
The space Infront of your body where signs are made is called this.
What is the Signing space?
This term describes hearing people who can hear.
What is hearing?
This deaf and blind person became famous for becoming a writer and activist and is quite controversial today.
Who is Helen Keller
This school founded in 1817 was the first school for deaf in the U.S.
What is the American school for the deaf?
This communication method combines signs with spoken English word order.
What is Signed Exact English (SEE)?
This system uses handshapes to represent English letters and spell words.
What is fingerspelling?
This term describes people who cannot hear or have hearing loss.
What is deaf?
This performer got famous for signing the national anthem at the super bowl.
Who is Warren "Wawa" Snipe?
This teacher helped create american sign language after working with deaf students in the early 1800s.
Who is Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet?
This technology turns spoken language into written text in real time.
What is communication access realtime translation (CART)?
This system uses handshapes as english letters and spell words.
What is Fingerspelling?
This capitalized word refers to the community and culture of Deaf people?
What is Deaf (With a capital D)?