DEAF Culture
This is the main reason turning lights on/off is used in DEAF culture.
What is getting attention
In ASL, numbers 1-5 are signed with the palm facing this direction.
What is inward/towards you?
Raised eyebrows in ASL typically indicate this kind of question.
What is yes/no question?
These two letters are most commonly confused when finger spelling fast.
What are M and N?
This sign is used as a bent-5 hand shape brushing down the chest.
What is HAPPY?
This iconic school is the world's only DEAF liberal arts University.
What is Gallaudet University?
This number uses a repeated flicking motion of the index finger.
What is 11?
This type of question uses lowered eyebrows.
What is a wh-question?
This letter uses a double movement and often gets mixed up with "U"
What is H?
This sign uses a flat hand brushing downward on the chest once to show politeness.
What is PLEASE?
In 1988 movement at Gallaudet demanded a DEAF university president.
What is DEAF president now?
This number uses the exact hand shape as the letter "F."
What is 9?
In ASL, the part of a sentence that comes first to set up when something happens is called this.
What is the time indicator?
Fingerspelling should always be produced at this height in relation to your face.
What is chin-level
Touching your forehead with a 1-hand shape and pulling away means this.
What is KNOW
This is considered rude in DEAF culture but normal in GEARING culture.
What is talking without signing?
These two numbers look almost the same, but one has the thumb touching the pinky and the other has the thumb touching the ring finger.
What are 6 and 7?
These facial expressions modify the meaning of a sign without changing the hand shape.
What are non-manual markers?
When reading fingerspelling, you should look here, not at each individual letter.
What is word/hand shape area?
This family sign starts with at the forehead with an open-5 hand shape and moves outward twice to show a male parent or grandparent.
What is GRANDPA?
These 3 values are central in DEAF culture: visual access, community, and ____.
What is communication?
When signing the number "20" in ASL, your hand makes a small repeated movement that looks like snapping with these two fingers.
What are the thumb and index finger?
In ASL when setting up two people or objects in different spots in signing space and refer back to them later, you are using this grammar technique.
What is spatial referencing or indicating?
What is the most important thing to keep still and steady when you finger spell so each letter is clear.
What is your wrist/hand
This sign uses two bent-V hand shaped moving downward alternately to describe crowds of people walking or moving together.
What is PEOPLE-WALKING/MASSES MOVING?