Famous Deaf Individuals
This individual was the first Deaf actor to win an Academy award at 21 years old. She also visited OSU last semester!
Marlee Matlin
Oralism
This implantable device can be controversial in Deaf culture.
Cochlear Implant
What is Ohio's state bird?
Which planet spins backwards compared to most other planets in our solar system?
Venus
This individual met Gallaudet in Europe and started the first school for the Deaf in the U.S.
Laurent Clerc
What was the first technological college for deaf students in the world?
Rochester Institute of Technology/The National Technical Institute for the Deaf
What device allows a Deaf person to make phone calls via an interpreter in real time?
Video Relay Service (VRS)
Ohio was founded in 1803 as the ___th state.
17th
What is the only letter that doesn’t appear in any U.S. state name?
This individual was the first Deaf contestant on America's Next Top Model and won the Mirrorball Trophy on Dancing with the Stars.
Nyle DiMarco
This week long protest made history at Gallaudet University in 1988.
Deaf President Now
This device allows users to communicate over standard telephone lines by typing messages back and forth instead of talking and listening.
TTY
What is Ohio's state flower?
Red Carnation
Which actor voices Woody in Toy Story?
Tom Hanks
This individual was an actor appearing most notably in Sandlot 2 and Switched at Birth
Sean Berdy
In what year was it mandated that all televised material be captioned under the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act?
2012
A portable device that flashes lights or vibrates to alert a Deaf person to sounds like a doorbell or phone.
Alerting System
How many U.S. presidents were born in Ohio? (#)
7: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William H. Taft, and Warren G. Harding
Which fruit can spontaneously ripen faster if placed next to bananas?
Avocado
This individual held the "longest-running role on American television for a person with a different ability" for their recurrent role on Sesame Street.
Linda Bove
This individual published his findings about sign language as a legit language, leading to the the return of ASL to Deaf schools.
William Stokoe
What is the system that court reporters, closed captioners and voice writers, and others use to convert speech to text? A trained operator uses keyboard or stenography methods to transcribe spoken speech into written text.
Communication Access Real Time Captioning (CART)
What is the official state rock song?
Hang on Sloopy
Which country has the most official languages, with 11 recognized?
South Africa