Acronyms
SEE
Sign Exact English
Rule of nine
1-9 one sign, 10 and + double up
AGB
Alexander Grahm Bell
DPN year
1988
Names, Brands, Places, and Titles
Things you should fingerspell
PSE
Pidgin Sign English
#APT and #FIX are both examples of
loan signs or lexicalized fingerspelling
Estbalished the first Deaf school in America in 1817
Milan Conference year
1880
Gallaudet University is located in
Washington DC
CODA
Child of Deaf Adult
Two ways to gloss fingerspelling
fs:
Dashes between each letter
French person who brought sign language to America
Laurent Clerc
A place that had a high population of Deaf individuals, resulting in a unique language only used in this place.
Martha's Vineyard
Surgically implanted device that simulates hearing
Cochlear Implant
NMM
Non Manual Markers
Questions normally at the end of a sentence
WhQs
Marlee Matlin
Oralism
Deaf vs deaf
Deaf: Culturally Deaf
deaf: Physically but not culturally Deaf
VRS
Video Relay Service
RhQ eyebrows go which way?
up
ASL is derived from
LSF
BSL fingerspelling is different than ASL how?
Two handed signing system