Old Vocab
The five question signs
What is WHO, WHAT, WHY, HOW, and WHERE?
Touching your flat palm to your chin or your forehead
What is DAD MOM?
The two languages ASL derives from
What are FSL and Martha's Vineyard Sign?
A widely hated oralist and inventor
What is Alexander Graham Bell?
Placing a noun somewhere within the signing space for ease of reference
What is reservation?
Three ways of expressing love
What is LOVE, ILY, and kissfist-LOVE?
Rocking a U or an A near your temple or your chin
What is UNCLE AUNT?
A surgically implanted device that rewires the brain to hear through vibrations
What is a cochlear implant?
The man elected to president of Gallaudet after the Deaf Prez Now! movement
What is I. King Jordan?
Writing down signs without translating them
The three handshapes used for pronouns and their corresponding conjugations
What is 1-hand for singular, 5-hand for possessive, and A-hand for -self?
Taking a turn at being a family member
What is the background of the sign for 'step'?
The first college for Deaf people
What is the American School for the Deaf?
An Italian monk who invented the first recorded form of any sign
A sign that uses the physical space around the signer to create meaning
What is locatives?
Touching your B-hand to your forehead and then turning it away
What is IDK in sign language?
Linking fingers together in three different ways
What is FRIEND, good-FRIEND, and BESTFRIEND?
A mass week-long protest held at a congressman's office in San Francisco
What is the 504 sit-in?
The two founders of Gallaudet and their child protege
What is Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Laurent Clerc, and Annie Cogswell
Moving either the object or the subject to the front of a sentence and emphasizing it
What is topicalization?
A full polite introduction in ASL.
What is HELLO NICE MEET YOU MY NAME #[name] I [hearing/deaf/hoh] I LEARN ASL
Two different ways of showing affection
What is SWEETHEART, BABY?
1964, the congressional turning point for ASL education
What is the Babbish Report?
The first d/Deaf person to win an Oscar
What is Marlee Matlin?
The five parts of a sign
What is handshape, location, motion, palm orientation, and non-manual markers?