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Fingerspelling
Signs
Glossing
Deaf Facts
Important Terms
100
To express a double letter in a word, as in "L," you should do this.
What is slide the letter
100
This is the hand you should sign with most often.
What is your dominant hand
100
Deixis is abbreviated as this.
What is IX
100
What percentage of Deaf people are married to other Deaf people?
What is 90%
100
The writing system for ASL developed by teachers and researchers is called this.
What is glossing
200
When someone fingerspells to you, you should use this technique to read the word.
What is sounding out the letters in your head
200
When you are signing and want to express teacher instead of just teach, you add this after teach.
What is the Agent Marker
200
When glossing the sign "homework," you would do this.
What is HOME+WORK
200
Historically, American Sign Language is related to _______ Sign Language.
What is French Sign Language
200
This is when the meaning of the sign changes based on how it moves.
What is directionality
300
You should do this between fingerspelling someone's first and last name.
What is pause briefly.
300
When you raise your eyebrows and sign ASK-ME++, it means this.
What is "Any questions?"
300
When you gloss, you use this to show that more than one word means a single concept.
What is a hyphen
300
This is one appropriate way to get a Deaf person's attention if he/she is looking the other way.
What is waving gently in his/her line of sight or gently tapping him/her on the shoulder
300
This is used to emphasize a question has been asked and the signer expects a response.
What is the Signed Question Mark
400
Fingerspell "xylophone"
xylophone
400
Signs that resemble the meaning behind the sign, as in "book," are called this.
What are Iconic Signs
400
To express the fingerspelled word "bus" in gloss, you would write it like this.
What is fs-BUS
400
If your path is blocked by two signers having a conversation, you should do this.
What is go ahead and walk through
400
This states numbers 1-9 can be numerically incorporated into signs for time.
What is the Rule of 9
500
Fingerspell Quincy Jones
Quincy Jones
500
Two of the five parameters that make up a sign are _________ and _________.
What are handshape, location, movement, palm orientation, or non-manual signals
500
This is how you would gloss "What are you doing?"
What is whq on a line over DO-DO (or with YOU added first)
500
Two examples of visual signals for Deaf people are __________ and __________.
What are smoke/fire alarms, doorbells, telephone, crying babies, car, etc.
500
This is based on standard English and focuses on teaching Deaf people to use fingerspelling and speech to communicate.
What is the Rochester Method