ASL
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What is the location of a sign?
A mix of elements from two languages: often, the word order of one, and the grammar of another.
What is a pidgin?
Passed in 1975, this law resulted in the mainstreaming of Deaf children.
What is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)?
Decoding a message in one language and encoding it into another language.
What is interpreting?
The total list of vocabulary in a language.
What is a lexicon?
When a sign has two different handshapes, the dominant hand will typically provide the movement.
The Dominance Condition.
Deafness acquired before the development of spoken language.
What is pre-lingual deafness?
The place where the majority of deaf children in America are educated.
What are local, public school districts (mainstreaming)?
Encoding a message using the vocabulary of one language and the grammar of another (i.e., spoken English to a signed English system).
What is transliteration?
A class of handshapes including X, W, and open-8.
What are marked handshapes?
The easiest handshapes in ASL, which are the signs first learned by Deaf children.
What are un-marked handshapes?
The core of the Deaf community in the US.
What is ASL (language)?
The people who represent the majority of educators and administrators in K-12 programs for Deaf children.
Who are hearing people?
Decoding a message from one language and encoding it into a written form (or another frozen form, such as filmed ASL).
What is translation?
Repeating a sign or classifier in an arc or sweeping motion is a form of this.
What is pluralization?
A code for english embedded into ASL.
A genetic disorder involving congenital deafness and blindness.
What is Usher's Syndrome?
A school for Deaf children, with housing.
What is a residential (or state) school?
Tenet 1: Interpreters adhere to standards of this.
What is "confidential communmication?"
A style of ASL language use which involves larger signing space, the use of rhetorical questions, and possibly a platform or podium.
What is a formal register?
Combining a series of signs to a) form a conceptual framework; or b) describe something for which there is no existing sign.
What is Couching/Scaffolding?
Where most deaf children learn ASL.
What are their Deaf peers?
A law designed to improve a deaf child's preparedness for kindergarten with a balance of resources and information about ASL and English.
What is LEAD-K?
A metaphor for interpreting that imagines an interpreter as a telephone wire between one person and another.
What is "conduit" or "machine"?
Over-Time; Regularity; Long Time; and Over-And-Over-Again.
What are types of temporal aspect in ASL?