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Question | Answer |
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List the four sign parameters | 1. hand shape, 2.movement, 3. location, 4. palm orientation. |
List ways to get a deaf person's attention. | tap on shoulder, tap on table, stomp of floor, filker the lights. |
List ways NOT to get a deaf person's attention. | yell as loud as you can, sign when they are signing, wave in front of face. |
Appropriate ways to use fingerspelling | when signing names, places, brands, towns, to add empathize, and if you don't know the sign. |
What do with your eyebrows in a Y/N question? | lift eyebrows. |
What do with your eyebrows in a wh-question? | furrow eyebrows. |
What is American Sign Language (ASL) | A language capable of expressing abstract ideas and a language utilizing space and movement to convey meaning. |
Historically, American Sign Language is related to | French Sign Language |
American Sign Language is used by most Deaf people in which of the following countries? | United states and Canada |
Approximately what percent of Deaf people who marry are married to other Deaf people? | 90 percent |
American Sign Language is traditionally handed down from generation to generation through what? | Residential schools for the Deaf |
The role of facial expressions, head movements, and eye gaze in American Sign Language is primarily what ? | grammatical |
While watching another person sign, it is appropriate to focus on the signer's | face |
Among ASL signers, fingerspelling is mainly used in what ways | To give names to people and places |
American Sign Language makes use of the space in front of a signer's body to do what? | Convey distance, contrast two people, places, things or ideas, and express time concepts. |
To get the attention of a Deaf person who is looking the other way what should do what? | tap him/het on the shoulder |
If your path is blocked by two signers conversing with each other what should you do? | go ahead and walk through |
Which of following are considered rube by Deaf people? | watching a signed conversion and/or talking (using voice) in the presence of deaf people. |
In general, the least effective communication strategy between Deaf and hearing people is what? | Speech and lipreading |
list all that is valued in the Deaf community? | for community to govern their own affairs, being kept informed about the community and its members, to have a sense of social obligation and duty to the group, and to develop long term relationships. |
what slang names do deaf people DON'T like to be called | Deaf and dumb, dead mutes, hearing impaired, deaf and hard of hearing. |
What percentage of deaf children have hearing parent san visa versa. | 90 percent |
How many Americans have hearing loss and hi many are profoundly deaf? | 35 million, 35,000 are profoundly deaf. |
who established the first deaf university and when was it built? | Reverend Thomas Gallaudet founded Gallaudet University in 1864. |
who was Alexander Grand bell and what milestones did he accomplish for the deaf? | Bell was a huge opponent in oralism when teaching deaf children. Bell began to teach speech to deaf students using a universal alphabet invented by his father called “Visible Speech.” |
Why was ASL outlawed in the 1800 hundreds? | Because people believed that Deaf people where born with a curse and they thought the only way to cure it |
What is limit for someone to learn a language? | past 7 years old |
What is the form of communication abbreviated as TC? | Total Communication |
most deaf people consider cochlear implants to be a form of what? | A form of culture genocide. |
List the 4 areas of the hearing scale and where the speech banana is? | it goes top to bottom normal, mil, serve, and profound. The Speech banana is in-between mild and serve. |
What do hearing aids do compared to cochlear implants? | Hearing aids enhance your hearing, the cochlear implant let the fluid out of your ear and give you hearing through elctro-magnetism. |
What is the earliest age that a child can get a cochlear implant? | 10 months old. |
When signing, which part if the face is considered masculine and which part of the face is considered feminine? | The northern part of face is considered masculine, and the southern part of the face is considered feminine. |