Signs
This ASL sign uses CL:F (open to closed) moving away form the face to represent a small furry animal.
What is CAT?
This classifier usually represents a single person's entire body walking upright.
What is CL:1?
Roughly __ percent of Deaf children are born to hearing parents.
What is 90%?
How do you gloss fingerspelled words?
What is hyphens?
These ASL stories are constructed by using only the handshapes of the alphabet in order from A to Z.
What is ABC Story?
This ASL sign uses CL:A (opened) in a circular movement to represent a common core class in schools.
What is SCIENCE?
This classifier represents a flat surface.
What is CL:B?
True or False: Deaf individuals do not mind the term 'hearing impaired."
What is False.
How do you gloss lexicalized words/signs?
What is # (loan sign)?
In this famous ASL story the audience follows a Deaf and hearing duo who takes turns on a long road trip.
What is The Hitchhiker?
This ASL sign uses CL:5 (open) with the fingers intertwined and moved in a circular movement.
What is AMERICA?
This classifier represents small, round things.
EX: buttons.
What is CL:F?
This is the percentage of hearing parents who learn to sign for their Deaf child.
What is 5-7%?
What is does ++ mean?
What is sign is repetition.
In ASL storytelling the narrator takes on the persona of multiple characters by using this tactic.
What is role shifting?
This ASL sign uses CL:L that represents a system of communication.
What is LANGUAGE?
This classifier represents objects that stream or extend
EX: curtains, hair, streamers, rainbows
What is CL:4?
The first school for the deaf, now known as the American School for the Deaf, was established by Deaf Frenchman Laurent Clerc and hearing American Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet in __ of the year __.
What is Hartford, Connecticut; 1817?
What is the difference between y/n q, wh q, and rh q?
y/n q have eyebrows up the entire sentence.
wh q have eyebrows down when signing the wh word.
rh q have eyebrows up when signing the rh q word.
This is used to "look" at characters or objects placed in space, establishing who is talking or acting.
What is eye gaze?
This ASL sign uses CL:B that means to prevent someone from achieving a goal, to thwart plans, or to cause feelings of discouragement, annoyance, or anger.
What is FRUSTRATE?
This classifier represents, but is not limited to; short or shallow depths, thin shapes, and diminishing into the distance.
What is CL:G?
When signing to someone this is what you should maintain and would be considered rude not to.
What is eye contact?
Gloss the following sentence
I was walking and tripped over a bike.
What is:
BIKE CL:CLAW (place) ME CL:1 (walk and trip over bike).
These ASL stories rely heavily or entirely on one of the 4 parameters to create 3D scenes, acting out actions, movements, and shapes of objects.
What is Classifer Stories?