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ASL
100

This is the meaning of Deaf (instead of deaf).

What is culturally Deaf?

100

This is when the first school for the deaf was founded in the USA.

What is 1817?

100

This person was the deaf person that co-founded the first school for the deaf. 

Who is Laurent Clerc?

100

What art movement did Betty Mililer and Chuck Baird begin?

What is De'VIA?

100

When signing a "wh"  question your eyebrows are in this position. 

What is lowered or down position?

200

90% of deaf children are born to what type of parents?

What is hearing parents?

200

This college was renamed after the hearing man who co-founded the first school for the deaf. 

What is Gallaudet College?

200

This person is the first deaf person to win an Academy award for best actress. 

Marlee Matlin

200

This artist uses primary colors to represent the tragedy of oralism and the triumphs of ASL. 

Who is Nancy Rourke?

200

To compare or contrast people, places and things you must________  

What is use contrastive structure, shift your body slightly?

300

These are given to you by deaf people, and are ways to represent your name without having to fingerspell it.

What are name signs?

300

When was the International Congress in Milan, Italy, which met on deaf education?

What is 1880?

300

This person is the first deaf person to win America's Top Model and Dancing with teh Stars.

Nyle DiMarco

300
This person is deaf athlete that played football for the Seattle Seahawks that went to the Super Bowl.

Who is Derrick Coleman?

300

Traditionally ASL is handed down from generation to generation through

What is residential schools for the Deaf or Deaf family members?

400

There are multiple ways to get a deaf person's attention.

Flicking lights, tapping shoulder, stamping feet

400

This is the language that both hearing and deaf people used for school, work, etc, in a specific place in the USA in the 1700’s and early 1800’s.

What is Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language? What is Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language?

400

Who was the first Black Deaf person to earn a degree at Gallaudet college?

Who is Andrew Foster?

400
This person is credited for inventing the hand signals that are used in baseball. 

Who is Dummy Hoy?

400

Name at least one language that mixed with home signs to become ASL.

What is French Sign Langauge (LSF), Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL), Indigenous Sign Language?

500

This group of hearing people have deaf parents.

KODA (Kids of Deaf Adults)-birth to 17 years

CODA (Children of Deaf Adults)-18 years and up

500

 This movement was the first time that Deaf rights and Deaf pride made national and international news.

What is Deaf President Now (DPN) movement?

500

This person invented the Huddle at Gallaudet University.

Paul Hubbard

500

When was the first Deaflympics held?

What is 1924?
500

What are the 5 parameters of signs?

What is handshape, palm orientation, location, movement, non-manual markers/signals?

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