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Mr. Mrs or Miss ASL

There are no signs for Mr Mrs or Miss in ASL. Sign the person's name with a respectful facial expression.

Difference between busy and business

Movement

American School for the Deaf

Hartford Connecticut. First US school 4 deaf education. Opened in 1817 used manual method.

Schools for the Deaf

Environments where students teachers support staff use American sign language. Usually only one in each state. All Def sports teams. Place where being deaf is normal.

Oral schools

Believe deaf people must learn to listen and speak in order to function in the hearing world. Don't allow sign language. Usually kindergarten through elementary School then students enter a school for the deaf or a public school.

Mainstreamed

Deaf student attending local public school. Often only one deaf student in entire School. Lonely frustrating. One in a crowd.

Initialization

Bass sign with initial added. Example biology, chemistry.

Gallaudet University

Founded in 1864 chartered by President Abraham Lincoln. World's first liberal arts university designed for deaf. All courses in ASL. Host international students from around the world. Limited number of hearing undergraduates are accepted.

Deaf president now

1988 at gallaudet University.

First deaf president

I. King Jordan

Classifiers

A hand shape that reflects particular characteristics. Is both iconic and abstract in nature. Identify the object being represented before using a classifier. Play an important role in ASL literature especially classifier stories.

CL:1

Represents an individual and its location, action, and manner. depicts up to five individuals engaged in the same action simultaneously. Also refers to cylindrical objects example logs or poles. Use eye gaze to follow.

CL:^

Represents the actions of 1 individuals legs or eyes. Used for others walking but not yourself.

Classifier stories

A story where the signer uses only one classifier to tell an entire story - something that cannot be done in English.

CL:3

Represents actions of wheeled vehicles. Not iconic

Time and when signs

Come first in the sentence

Time spot

Where most people wear a watch. The rule of nine can be used.

Conceptually accurate signing

Distinguishing between meanings and concepts of ideas and their signs. Literal / abstract

Deaflympics

Deaf & hearing athletes competing in sport events without being penalized for deafness. Starting Hughes are visual rather than audible.

Football Huddle

invented in 1892 by deaf student, Paul Hubbard, at gallaudet University.

Signs experience and finish

Used to ask about whether someone has or has not done something.

"fish"

Lip movement that always accompanies the sign "finish"

Five parameters of sign

Handshape, Palm orientation, location, movement, NMS

CL:5

Many people. 5 or more people engaged in an activity such as walking.

Oral literature

Stories preserved and passed down only by the act of storytelling. the literature produced by the Deaf culture is part of this tradition since it relies on the act of live or recorded storytelling for transmission.

ASL literature

ASL poetry, classifier stories, handshape rhymes, ABC stories, number stories, narratives.

Narratives

Sign in formal ASL. Relate events and aspects of shared Deaf experience and being Deaf in a hearing world. Often highlight Deaf history, famous Deaf persons, Deaf accomplishments and triumph over adversity.

CL: Been V

Represents human legs in seated position. Animals and insects.

CL:B

Large flat objects.

CL: Base B

Flat surface used with another classifier placed on top.

Tense markers

Located in the beginning of a sentence. absence of a tense marker indicates present time. Future moves forward now is implied absent of other time indicator, past is indicated by movement backwards from the signer.

Rule of nine

Pattern that influences a concept duration. Can be used for the numbers one through nine. Can be used for time of day, number of hours, minutes, days, weeks, months, and amounts of money.

Spatial organization

Uses shoulder shifting and the group signed to separate details into related groups. English example would be "I did this and then... Then I did this..."

Noun verb pairs

Movement parameter changes nouns to verbs. nouns typically have a double back and forth movement. Verbs typically have one solid movement.

PSE

Pidgin signed English. Mouth English words matched to every sign.

English codes

Are not languages aim to show prefix, suffix, and spoken English using signs borrowed from ASL or by creating new ones. SEE (signing exact English), seeing essential English, linguistics of visual English.

English codes

Artificial way of conveying information such as SEE. manually coded English refers to any code representing the English language. Were created to help deaf people learn English

Bilingual bicultural model

Emphasizes ASL and English has distinct and equally important languages and cultures.

Sign language Continuum

Wide variety of signing among people.

Describing clothing

Topic comment structure

Turn taking strategies

Closing signals, question maker and wh face, using hold signal, moving hands up to signal to person that you wish to communicate, using the go on or continue sign.

CL:C

Cylindrical handheld objects

Physical characteristics

1. Gender


2. Ethnicity / background


3. Height


4. Body type


5. Eyes, hair, other details such as clothing

Parameter difference between pregnant and gut or belly

Orientation, thumb placement

Disabled and handicapped

fs-DA and fs-HC

ASL sign Look strong

Strong physical resemblance.

Deaf native Americans

Plains Indians use sign language to communicate. It is certain that ASL borrowed signs from this sign language the deaf native American community is proud of their Rich legacy.

Tactile sign language

Language used by deaf blind individuals to communicate.

Deaf tend theirs

Refers to specific attitudes, beliefs, habits or other characteristics found within Deaf culture. "Something deaf people do"

Big head sign

Describes someone who is arrogant, overconfident, or self-absorbed.

Pow

Catching a sudden illness, signing about something unexpected happening.

Parameter difference between ocean and River

Movement - ocean indicates waves, River indicates path the water follows.