History of Sign Language
The earliest known mention of sign language comes from this ancient civilization.
What is Ancient Greece?
We use them to describe how a sign behaves within the signer's space.
What are parameters?
What is a sign name?
This Greek philosopher believed speech was the path to learning, and therefore people who could not hear or speak could not learn.
Who is Aristotle?
Two words from two different languages share the same parameters and meaning.
What are cognates?
True or false:
Deaf people may use tapping, flashing lights, or waving to get attention, which can sometimes make hearing individuals feel uncomfortable or unsure of how to respond.
True
This country produced several major figures in the history of sign language, and had a major impact on the development of American Sign Language.
Among the five parameters, this one is not taken into consideration when analyzing cognates.
What is facial expression?
This is the percentage of hearing loss you must have in order to be part of the deaf community.
Trick question: anyone with hearing loss and many of their hearing neighbors, relatives, partners, and friends can be part of the deaf community.
This New England community featured an abnormally large number of deaf people due to a genetic condition. Everyone there, deaf or not, was fluent in the local sign language and deaf people were fully integrated into everyday life, leading to an influx of deaf immigrants.
What is Martha's Vineyard?
It's a group of languages that share a common ancestor, or "proto-language," and therefore exhibit significant similarities in vocabulary, grammar, and sign/sound patterns
What is a language family?
This group believes that teaching deaf people to speak is better than teaching them to use sign language. They were prominent in the 1800s and early 1900s, but have become less prominent since the 1960s when sign language became dominant in deaf schools.
Who are the Oralists?
A man singularly important in the establishing of education for deaf people and developing professional networks of sign language communicators and educators. He was French, but founded schools and made connections in England and the United States as well.
Who is Thomas Gallaudet?
True or false:
All sign languages have fingerspelling.
False
This influential and passionate oralist also invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?