What's that acronym?
ADA
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
This person has had a TV and movie career for over 20 years and was the first Deaf person to win an Oscar.
This type of school has students bussed from all over the state to attend. They were very popular in the 70s and 80s but enrollment at them has declined in the past 20 years.
What are Schools for the Deaf?
This is the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions, history, values, and shared institutions of communities that are influenced by deafness and which use sign languages as the main means of communication.
What is Deaf culture?
This is the movement that focuses on having Deaf individuals in Deaf roles for movies, TV shows, and plays.
What is #deaftalent?
RID
What is the registry of interpreters for the deaf?
This Deaf comedian has appeared in Baby Driver and the TV Different Strokes as well as having his own comedy tour.
Who is CJ Jones?
This type of school is when deaf students attend classes with their hearing peers, possibly with an interpreter.
What is a mainstream school?
Deaf people experience this when they are discriminated against.
What is audism?
This is when people experience two or more types of oppression.
What is intersectionality?
NAD
What is the National Association of the Deaf?
This Deaf rapper performed at the Super Bowl in 2022 alongside Sean Forbes. He has several music videos in ASL as well and helped coin the term 'dip hop.'
Who is Warren "Wawa" Snipe?
This right is available to any Deaf student who uses sign language as a mode of communication in the school system.
What is an interpreter?
This is a part of Deaf culture that is given to individuals and MUST come from a Deaf person.
What is a name sign?
This is the term used for hearing individuals who support, and are part of, the Deaf community.
What is an ally?
SSD
What is Support Services for the Deaf?
This artist was one of the first people to be involved in establishing DeVia. He is most famous for his art that involves signs within the paintings.
Who is Chuck Baird?
These are provided to students with an IEP to support them in accessing the curriculum. Examples include interpreter, notes, and captions.
What are accommodations?
This place within the Deaf community often brings communities together, educates Deaf children, and is a place for the community to grow and support each other.
What is a School for the Deaf?
True or false: The Deaf community is made up of only individuals who use sign language as their primary method of communication.
What is false?
DIG
What is Deaf in Government?
This dancer and choreographer is part of the group called The Wild Zappers and teaches at NTID in Rochester NY.
Who is Fred Beam?
Maryland School for the Deaf is located in this city.
What is Frederick, MD?
Identify 2 ways hearing culture is different from Deaf culture.
This term is out-dated and should not be used to describe folks in the Deaf community.
What is hearing-impaired?