ASL 101

T/F: According to Deaf cultural norms, if someone is blocking your view of a presenter or someone signing, it is usually okay to gently push them slightly aside.

True

T/F: According to Deaf cultural norms, if you're walking through a group of people signing to each other, it would be appropriate to walk straight through the conversation if there isn't another way around.

True

T/F: Hearing people can be members of the deaf community.

True

T/F: In Deaf Culture, social time with other sign language users is considered to be more precious than it is in hearing culture

True

T/F: You can indicate relative size with specific non-manual behaviors.

True

In addition to recognizing that deaf people were capable of being intelligent, the Spanish lawyer Lasso, "announced that deaf people should have the right to ________________."

bear children

According to our recorded history, what is the earliest time-period in which we have records of deaf people being able to learn and be taught?

700 B.C. - A.D. 400

A "TTY" is...

A device used to convert letters into sounds so they can be sent through a telephone line AND A device used by many deaf people before computers were around

During the 1700s in France, sign language began to be emphasized more and more in deaf education. Where did the early roots of this sign language come from?

Abbe de l'Epee was taught sign language by his deaf students, who had already been using it. l'Epee also added signs of his own creation.

____________ is the feeling or belief that a person who can hear or speak well, or who can act like a hearing person, is superior to those who can't.

Audism

When you sign an open-ended question (one that does NOT have a yes/no answer), your face should...

Be tilted forward slightly with eyebrows furrowed

Which two of these are least important to signing correctly?

Body position and medium (video vs. in-person)

What hand shapes do you use in order to sign to someone what year you are in for college or high school?

Both "five" hands

"____________ is defined as a state of mind where Deaf people achieve their fullest and strongest Deaf selves and is a positive approach to re-affirming Deaf people's potential and place in society, history and the world."

Deafhood

T/F: The best signers balance the use of their hands so that each is taking the "dominant hand" role about 50% of the time.

False

What invention, as mentioned in chapter 3, was instrumental in preserving Deaf history near the beginning of the 1900s?

Film, which was instrumental in preserving early American Sign Language.

Historically, American Sign Language is most closely related to:

French Sign Language

If you had been born deaf 400 years ago, which two of these would have made the biggest difference in your chances for a good education?

How important your family was in society (i.e. having ties to royalty or nobility) AND How much money your family had

In 1999 a charter school, the Jean Massieu School of the Deaf, was established in the Salt Lake City area. According to the information in this chapter, what is the most probable reason for choosing this name for the school?

Jean Massieu was known as the first deaf teacher of the deaf

What's the difference between a language and a code?

Language develops naturally and has its own rules while code develops from a language

How do deaf people feel about music?

Many Deaf people like music, although they may experience it in a way that is different from hearing people

During the 1500s there was a physician, Dr. Girolamo Cardano, who had a deaf son. At some point in his life, the doctor read a book about a "deaf-mute" who had learned to read & write. During his lifetime, what were some of the main conclusions that Dr. Cardano came to about deaf people?

Speech could be replaced by writing, and hearing could be replaced by reading. AND Deaf people were able to reason even without the ability to speak.

Describe 3 common ways to get a Deaf person's attention

Tap them, wave hand, get someone else to tap them

What are the five parameters of every sign?

hand position, palm orientation, hand shape, hand movement, non-manual markers