Vocabulary
This is the handshape for the sign PINEAPPLE.
What is an F handshape?
This is the classifier handshape that can represent a vehicle.
What is a CL:3?
What is 1880?
This was a famous Deaf artist who created artwork related to cochlear implants.
Who was Chuck Baird?
This is the sign for New Jersey.
What is NJ?
These are two city signs that are moved in the shape of a "7" in the air.
What are Detroit, Flint, Brighton, Chicago.
This is the definition of a classifier in ASL.
What is a sign that can represent a "class" or "group of objects?
This is the year in which the first elderly home for the Deaf was established.
What is 1886?
This is how capital D Deaf people would probably view cochlear implants (supportive or unsupportive).
What is unsupportive?
What is a directional verb?
These are two animals signs that use the Y handshape.
What are WHALE, HIPPO, and/or COW?
These are two things that A V:CL can represent.
What are one person walking (palm in) and two people walking (palm out)?
These are the two factors that Nellie Willhite had to overcome.
What is being a woman AND being Deaf?
This is a type of doctor who evaluates hearing levels and would probably support cochlear implants in deaf people of all ages.
What is an audiologist?
This is one way to negate in ASL.
What is shake your head no, sign NOT, offer the correct information?
These two emotion signs use the OPEN B or CLOSED 5 handshape.
What are HAPPY, SATISFIED, ENJOY, FRUSTRATED, and or WORRY?
These two classifiers can represent a flat surface and a water bottle sitting on top of it.
What are a B:CL and an open A:CL?
He was the first president (and cofounder of) The Fraternal Society of the Deaf.
Who was Peter Hellers?
These are at least two drawbacks (cons) of cochlear implants.
What is risk of surgery, risk of severed facial nerve, expense, risk of infection, years of therapy, and/or continued inability to benefit from speech reception?
What are help, show, give, and/or move?
These are two states that have 3 letter abbreviations in ASL.
What are ILLINOIS, ALABAMA, NEVADA, FLORIDA, ARKANSAS, INDIANA, KANSAS, DELAWARE, and/or NEBRASKA?
This classifier could represent buttons on the front of a shirt.
What is an F:CL?
He was the person who founded the first elderly home for the Deaf and who is named after his father.
Who was Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Jr.?
These are at least two (perceived) benefits of cochlear implants.
What are better speech reception, listening to music, and using the telephone?
This is the definition of the Deaf Experience and an example.
What is a collection of experiences that are unique to people with hearing loss such and common to most of these people. Examples: attending speech therapy, discrimination due to inability to hear, being expected to lipread, being denied the right to learn ASL.