Deaf Culture Vocab 1

Question 1

Adventitious Deafness

Answer 1

Deafness that occurs after birth; illness or accident

*usually spinal meningitis

Question 2

Congenital Deafness

Answer 2

Deafness at birth

Question 3

Deaf Community

Answer 3

Deaf people like to live near each other

Question 4

Expressive Skill

Answer 4

Ability to accurately communicate ASL to others

Question 5

Receptive Skill

Answer 5

Ability to accurately understand someone communicating ASL to you

Question 6

Non-manual Behavior

Answer 6

Visual cues not signed with hand(s) that are part of the sign

Question 7

Lipreading/Speechreading

Answer 7

A method of understanding unheard messages by observing lip and facial movements

Question 8

Cued Speech

Answer 8

Used in tandem with lipreading; combo of hand shapes that represent some vowels and consonants and where they’re placed on face

Question 9

Iconicity

Answer 9

The characteristic of a sign to resemble what it represents

Question 10

Syntax

Answer 10

The order or structure of words to form a sentence (grammar rules)

Question 11

Initialized Sign

Answer 11

Your hand shape is the first letter of the English word

Question 12

Manually Coded English

Answer 12

The umbrella term for a group of signing systems that used English grammer

Question 13

Seeing Essential English (SEE 1)

Answer 13

Idea of SEE 1: sign for car + sign for pet = carpet

Question 14

Signing Exact English (SEE 2)

Answer 14

Devised to teach deaf students English grammar; made up words

Question 15

Pidgin (PSE)/ Contact Sign

Answer 15

Blend of two languages

Question 16

Linguistics of Visual English (LOVE)

Answer 16

A system of notating in written form the ASL signs

Question 17

Finger Spelling

Answer 17

(In the U.S.) using one hand to represent all 26 letters of the alphabet

Question 18

Conceptually Accurate Signed English (CASE)

Answer 18

(Last MCE) Pay attention to what the signs mean, instead of what they say

Question 19

American Sign Language (ASL)

Answer 19

Language used by the Deaf community

Question 20

Children of Deaf Adults (CODA)

Answer 20

Hearing children that have deaf parents

Question 21

Simultaneous Method of Communication (SimCom)

Answer 21

The use of both manual and oral communication at the same time

Question 22

Code-switching

Answer 22

A tactic that deaf people use to communicate with hearing signers

Question 23

William Stokoe

Answer 23

Proved that ASL was a real language

Question 24

Five Parameters of a Sign

Answer 24

1. Hand Shape (what it looks like?)
2. Location (where is the sign?)
3. Movement (does the sign move? if so, how?)
4. Palm Orientation (facing out, up, down?)
5. Non-Manual (does it have a non-manual action?)