Deaf Culture Vocab 1 Flashcards
Adventitious Deafness
Deafness that occurs after birth; illness or accident
*usually spinal meningitis
Congenital Deafness
Deafness at birth
Deaf Community
Deaf people like to live near each other
Expressive Skill
Ability to accurately communicate ASL to others
Receptive Skill
Ability to accurately understand someone communicating ASL to you
Non-manual Behavior
Visual cues not signed with hand(s) that are part of the sign
Lipreading/Speechreading
A method of understanding unheard messages by observing lip and facial movements
Cued Speech
Used in tandem with lipreading; combo of hand shapes that represent some vowels and consonants and where they’re placed on face
Iconicity
The characteristic of a sign to resemble what it represents
Syntax
The order or structure of words to form a sentence (grammar rules)
Initialized Sign
Your hand shape is the first letter of the English word
Manually Coded English
The umbrella term for a group of signing systems that used English grammer
Seeing Essential English (SEE 1)
Idea of SEE 1: sign for car + sign for pet = carpet
Signing Exact English (SEE 2)
Devised to teach deaf students English grammar; made up words
Pidgin (PSE)/ Contact Sign
Blend of two languages
Linguistics of Visual English (LOVE)
A system of notating in written form the ASL signs
Finger Spelling
(In the U.S.) using one hand to represent all 26 letters of the alphabet
Conceptually Accurate Signed English (CASE)
(Last MCE) Pay attention to what the signs mean, instead of what they say
American Sign Language (ASL)
Language used by the Deaf community
Children of Deaf Adults (CODA)
Hearing children that have deaf parents
Simultaneous Method of Communication (SimCom)
The use of both manual and oral communication at the same time
Code-switching
A tactic that deaf people use to communicate with hearing signers
William Stokoe
Proved that ASL was a real language
Five Parameters of a Sign
- Hand Shape (what it looks like?)
- Location (where is the sign?)
- Movement (does the sign move? if so, how?)
- Palm Orientation (facing out, up, down?)
- Non-Manual (does it have a non-manual action?)
