ASL Study Guide

Question 1

Advocacy is the act or process of:

Answer 1

Pleading, supporting, or recommending a cause or person

Question 2

If you’re interested in becoming an interpreter, it is very important to make sure that you are:

Answer 2

Qualified and skillful in formulating accurate translations between languages, particularly in the jargon of specific fields

Question 3

Sign language in educational settings isn’t just for Deaf people but can also be useful for:

Answer 3

Students who can hear but are mute and do not speak, students with autism, and students who respond better to sign language

Question 4

Vocational rehabilitation counselors and job coaches’ primary responsibilities are:

Answer 4

Support clients in preparing them for employment and to obtain employment

Question 5

Learning sign language can be useful for people working as EMTs because:

Answer 5

EMTs may encounter a deaf or signing patient that needs emergency assistance and having some basic signs can assist with immediate communication needs

Question 6

Which career occupation would find knowing sign language useful?

Answer 6

All of them! Deaf people are everywhere, and as a park service ranger, dental hygienist, paralegal, knowing ASL is useful

Question 7

A Certified Deaf Interpreter, (CDI):

Answer 7

Facilitates communication between the hearing interpreter and the deaf client, because the hearing interpreter is often not as familiar with specific language and cultural nuances

Question 8

If you’re thinking about becoming a mental health service provider such as a clinical mental health counselor, a school counselor, a social worker or a clinical psychologist that works with Deaf communities, which school should you consider attending?

Answer 8

Gallaudet University

Question 9

An example of a successful research center, which emphasizes collaboration between Deaf and Hearing researchers is:

Answer 9

Visual Language, Visual Learning (VL2) at Gallaudet University

Question 10

Deaf Art began in the US:

Answer 10

As far back as Deaf Native Americans, before European settlers came to the US

Question 11

There are works of art done by Deaf artists that have nothing to do with Deaf culture. But there are works of art done by Deaf artists that express culturally Deaf experience- this is called:

Answer 11

Deaf View/Image Art (De’VIA)

Question 12

Certified Deaf Interpreters at concerts are:

Answer 12

Deaf people with specialized training who study, analyze, translate, and memorize the lyrics in ASL as well as study the movement of the signer

Question 13

When a hearing person translates and songs in public, this is called an example of:

Answer 13

language and cultural appropriation

Question 14

Feeling music vibrations stimulates a portion of the Deaf person’s brain which:

Answer 14

Stimulates the same area of hearing people’s brain that hears music

Question 15

Inspiration porn occurs when:

Answer 15

people with disabilities or their cultural instruments are used to provide enjoyment and awe for hearing, abled bodied people

Question 16

As of 2016, the youngest female actress to win the Oscar for best actress is:

Answer 16

Marlee Matlin- Children of a Lesser God

Question 17

Nathie Marbury (1944-2013)

Answer 17

She was a well-known storyteller, poet, educator ad role model for the Black Deaf community.

She was the first Black Deaf person to enter National Leadership Training Program, later becoming a teacher at Kendall Demonstration Elemnetary School.

She was the first person to serve on the NAD, National Association of the Deaf.

Question 18

Eric Mulzkuhn (1922-2008)

Answer 18

He was a teacher, storyteller, playwright, poet and sign master.

Question 19

Eric Mulzkuhn (1922-2008)

Answer 19

He was a teacher, storyteller, playwright, poet and sign master.

He became editor of the student paper at the California School for the Deaf Berkeley. Over summers, he wrote the sports column for the daily paper. He later wrote for the Buff and Blue paper at Gallaudet.

In college he became manager for the basketball team, and an active member in the Dramatics Club.

Broke away from traditional poetry. He invented a succession of “nonsense” animal signs, involving movement of the whole body, and intense facial expressions.

Question 20

Negations Rules:

Answer 20

Establish time if specified (raise brows)
Establish location (raised brows)
Name the topic (raised brows)

Question 21

Negations Rules:

Answer 21

Establish time if specified (raise brows)

Establish location (raised brows)

Name the topic (raised brows)

End with negation (shake head)

Question 22

What does FINISH mean?

Answer 22

Shows that verb already occurred

Question 23

Hear & Now:

Answer 23

Married couple in their 60’s decides after a lifetime of being mute, to get a cochlear implant.

Goes into their childhood, how their parents forced them to go to a boarding school to learn how to talk.

Shares what its like after getting the implant: a month before turning it on. Gradually turning up the levels.

When on, they could hear toilets flushing, wall banging, walking, water coursing through a pipe, and ring scraping on the wall.

Once their CIs are off, they are completely deaf. It’s like turning off the radio volume. You won’t hear anything when it’s off.