Definitions
Diversity of Deaf
Ethnically Diverse Organizations in Deaf Community
Intersectionality
Perceptions of Black ASL: Younger or Older?
100
A place or environment in which a person or category of people can feel confident that they will not be exposed to discrimination, criticism, harassment, or any other emotional or physical harm.
What is Safe Space?
100
Do not associate with members of the Deaf community, hearing loss is a medical term, strive to be a part of the hearing community.
What is (little d) deaf?
100
strives to advocate for best practices in interpreting, professional development for practitioners and for the highest standards in the provision of interpreting services for diverse users of languages that are signed or spoken.
What is RID?
100
The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to an individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
What is intersectionality?
100
Common statement that their own school was inferior to White deaf schools.
What is older?
200
Differences in racial and ethnic, socioeconomic, geographic, and academic/professional backgrounds.
What is diversity?
200
A combination of sight and hearing loss
What is Deaf/Blind?
200
To meet the needs of African American/Black professionals in the field of sign language interpreting in regards to recruitment, networking, professional development, moral support, training and research.
What is National Alliance of Black Interpreters?
200
Intersectionally Me
What is the name of the YouTube channel?
200
White signing was different in vocabulary and complexity; it was more thuggish or "street".
What is younger ?
300
Opening ice breaker where one answered "Who named you?", "How was the decision for your name made?", "Are you named after someone?", "Do you like your name?", and "Are there cultural reasons for your name?"
What is "What's in a Name?"
300
A device that can be surgically implanted into a person's cochlea to stimulate it to cause hearing. It consists of a tiny receiver which is placed under the skin in the bony part behind the ear
What is a cochlear implant?
300
Members are American Indian, Alaskan Native, or First Nations Indian
What is the Sacred Circle?
300
Catalleya Storm
What is Intersectionally Me's real name?
300
Black signing has rhythm, emotion, mimics Black culture manners and expressions.
What is both younger and older?
400
The 2nd ice breaker played today included information on one's ethnic heritage, gender, age, place of birth, and academic major/stage of education.
What is Standpoint Statements?
400
A child of deaf adult
What is a CODA?
400
an organization of trilingual (Spanish-English-ASL) interpreters that believes in high quality services for our Deaf and hearing stakeholders
What is mano a mano?
400
Human Trafficking--Stop the Silence
What is the HandsUp! video topic?
400
These signers show an awareness of diveristy in signing styles and change their register depending on the situation and the social characteristics of their interlocutors.
What is younger?
500
Undereducated, underemployed, unfavorable self-image, lack of ambition, unawareness of lack of college education.
What are major problems faced by Black Deaf people?
500
a system of manual communication that strives to be an exact representation of English vocabulary and grammar. It is one of a number of such systems in use in English-speaking countries.
What is English signing systems?
500
a non-profit organization whose mission is to define and address the cultural, political and social issues experienced
What is National Asian Deaf Congress?
500
The identities "Intersectionally Me", Catalleya Storm identifies with
What is black, disabled, muslim, and queer (among other things)?
500
Hold a negative view of Black signing based on experience in segregated schools, where fewer activities and resources were available.
What is older?