Signs of the Times
This is the handshape used for the ASL sign "I Love You.
What is the ILY handshape?
This event, held in 1988, led to the first Deaf president of Gallaudet University.
What is Deaf President Now (DPN)?
In ASL, this sign is used to support time-related signs, such as something that will happen.
What is the future sign?
This is the term for spelling out a word letter by letter in ASL.
What is fingerspelling?
This country’s sign language is the basis for ASL.
What is France?
In ASL, this facial expression indicates a yes/no question.
What is raised eyebrows?
This Frenchman brought sign language to America in the early 1800s.
Who is Laurent Clerc?
In ASL, this grammar rule involves raised eyebrows, leaning forward, and a "Wh" question.
What is a rhetorical question?
This type of fingerspelling looks like a sign, uses a # symbol, and is called a loan sign.
What is lexicalized fingerspelling?
This is the primary sign language used in the United Kingdom.
What is British Sign Language (BSL)?
This person helped start the first permanent school for the Deaf in the U.S. in 1817.
Who is Thomas Gallaudet?
The National Association of the Deaf was founded in this year to protect Deaf rights.
What is 1880?
These signs use movement to show the action and who or what it involves.
What are directional verbs?
This strategy helps make fingerspelling faster and easier to understand.
What is bouncing or reducing pauses?
Abbreviated as LSQ, this sign language is used in Deaf communities in francophone Canada, mainly Quebec.
What is Quebec Sign Language?
The ASL sign for "elephant" mimics this part of the animal.
What is the trunk?
Signed in Milan in 1880, this treaty banned sign language in Deaf education.
What is the Milan Conference?
In ASL, you lower this part of your face for a 'Wh' question.
What are eyebrows.
Fingerspelling is performed using this hand.
What is the dominant hand?
This country's sign language, AUSLAN, combines influences from British and New Zealand Sign Languages.
What is Australia?
This famous Deaf actress starred in Children of a Lesser God and won an Academy Award.
Who is Marlee Matlin?
This inventor opposed sign language and promoted oralism, urging Deaf people to focus on speaking.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
This term refers to ASL grammar using movement, facial expressions, and body shifts.
What is non-manual markers?
This is how you show an apostrophe when fingerspelling, like in "St. Mary's."
What is twisting the palm so the "S" faces you?
This shared sign language is used at international events like the Deaflympics and World Federation of the Deaf meetings.
What is International Sign (IS)?