Deaf Culture
ASL vocabulary
ASL rules
People
Deaf History
100
school setting with a mixture of hearing and deaf students
What is "mainstream"?
100
first handshape for number 23-29
What is L?
100
does not reflect gender
What is possessive adjectives?
100
name of the Deaf teacher who taught Laurent Clerc
Who is Jean Massieu?
100
formed when player realized opposing teams could understand their signed play
What is football huddle?
200
papers created in Deaf residential school for gossips and news
What is "Little Papers"?
200
common responses to "Thank-you"
What is [pshaw]?
200
verb is modified to show agreement from its location
What is spatial agreement?
200
famous person who raised awareness of BSL
Who is Princess Diana?
200
demands were made that deaf people be placed in top level decision-making positions
What is Deaf President Now?
300
"notion that one is superior based on one's ability to hear or behave in the manner of one who hears"
What is AUDISM?
300
sign used to ask what a person did or will do
What is #do?
300
does not include mentioning yourself (I/me) as being among them
What is plural pronoun?
300
President of USA signs it
Who signs the diploma when students graduate from Gallaudet University?
300
invented in 1964 *bonus: full name
What is TTY (teletypewriter)?
400
two types of name signs
What are arbitrary and descriptive?
400
an exception to the rule on ordinal number (does not twist)
What is [FIRST]?
400
type of numbers that begin at the temple of your forehead
What is CENT?
400
two letters spelled out in the statute of Abraham Lincoln's in Washington, D.C.
What are A and L?
400
year of that fateful conference
What is 1880?
500
identity of Deaf individual who intentionally keep contact with hearing to a minimum due to years of frustrations
What is culturally separate?
500
the number of handshapes in the American Manual alphabet
What total 22?
500
UP-letters *bonus: give 10
What are b, c, d, f, k, l, r, u, v, w, and x?
500
father of ASL linguistics *bonus: name his system
Who is William Stokoe? *tab, dez, sig (cheremes)
500
Had a huge impact on deaf employment
What is World War I?
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