Deaf Culture!

Acronyms

100

SEE

Sign Exact English

200

PSE

Pidgin Sign English

300

CODA

Child of Deaf Adult

400

NMM

Non Manual Markers

500

VRS

Video Relay Service

ASL Grammar

100

Rule of nine

1-9 one sign, 10 and + double up

200

#APT and #FIX are both examples of 

loan signs or lexicalized fingerspelling

300

Two ways to gloss fingerspelling

fs:

Dashes between each letter

400

Questions normally at the end of a sentence

WhQs

500

RhQ eyebrows go which way?

up

People

100

AGB

Alexander Grahm Bell

200

Estbalished the first Deaf school in America in 1817

Thomas Gallaudet

300

French person who brought sign language to America

Laurent Clerc

400

First Deaf person to win an Academy Award

Marlee Matlin

Deaf History

100

DPN year

1988

200

Milan Conference year

1880

300

A place that had a high population of Deaf individuals, resulting in a unique language only used in this place.

Martha's Vineyard

400

The system of teaching deaf people to communicate by the use of speech and lip-reading rather than sign language.

Oralism

500

ASL is derived from

LSF

Random

100

Names, Brands, Places, and Titles

Things you should fingerspell

200

Gallaudet University is located in

Washington DC

300

Surgically implanted device that simulates hearing

Cochlear Implant

400

Deaf vs deaf

Deaf: Culturally Deaf

deaf: Physically but not culturally Deaf

500

BSL fingerspelling is different than ASL how?

Two handed signing system