Famous Deaf Figures
The faculty advisor for ASL Club
Lori Woods
The only liberal arts University for the Deaf in the world: it is located in Washington D.C.
Gallaudet University
Eyebrows are in this position when asking a “Yes or No” question.
Raised
This can be visually seen while watching a movie or a TV show.
Captioning and Subtitles
This is the organization that advocates for and supports Deaf people.
National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
The first deaf individual to win an Academy Award.
Marlee Matlin
This event took place in 1988 at Gallaudet University because the students wanted a Deaf president.
Deaf President Now (DPN)
This can be used to communicate a word that doesn't have a specific sign or to say one's name.
Finger spelling
The teletypewriter can be abbreviated as ____.
TTY
The two countries where ASL is predominantly used by Deaf people.
U.S and Canada
Founded the first permanent deaf institute in the U.S.
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
The conference that happened in the late 1800s changed Deaf education forever by banning sign language at all Deaf schools.
Milan Conference
Used to describe something in more detail through hand shapes and gestures resembling that concept.
Classifiers
This individual strongly opposed intermarriage among deaf people and feared the "increase of deafness" of the human race who also created the first telephone is ___.
Alexander Graham Bell
True or False: 90% of the deaf are born to hearing parents
True
The first deaf instructor at Gallaudet University, who helped create ASL.
Laurent Clerc
ASL was born from this type of sign language.
French Sign Language (LSF)
The area from the top of the head to the waist in which signing should be contained.
Sign Space
The service Deaf people use as their "telephone" to communicate with a hearing person on the other end.
Video Relay Service (VRS)
This is the term used for a hearing child who grew up with Deaf parents and whose first language is ASL.
CODA (Child of Deaf Adults)
The first deaf president of Gallaudet University.
Dr. I. King Jordan
Historically, this is a term used for those individuals who are culturally Deaf and use ASL as their primary communication mode.
Big “D” Deaf
To indicate the subject or object of an action sign ASL utilizes this.
Directional Signs
_____ created the world's first football helmet designed to level the playing field for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing players.
AT&T
These are the two ways in which Deaf students are educated.
Mainstream (public school) and Residential (Deaf School)