Definitions

Question 1

a visual gestural language used by deaf persons in america

Answer 1

American Sign Language

Question 2

use of the manual alphabet to form words and sentences

Answer 2

Fingerspelling

Question 3

a graph on which hearing test results are recorded

Answer 3

Audiogram

Question 4

a philosophy of educating the deaf child which advocates the use of any and all means of communication to provide unlimited opportunity to develop language

Answer 4

Total Communication

Question 5

26 different single hand representations of the 26 letters of the alphabet

Answer 5

Manual Alphabet

Question 6

those features of the language that are not portrayed with the hands, head, and body

Answer 6

Non Manual Behaviors/Signs

Question 7

a method of training or educating a deaf person through speech and speech (lip) reading without employing signs or finger spelling

Answer 7

Oralism

Question 8

the ability to understand what is expressed in both finger spelling and in the language of signs

Answer 8

Receptive Skill

Question 9

a language that uses manual symbols to represent ideas and concepts

Answer 9

Sign Language

Question 10

a tern used by some to refer to signing that combines the grammatical structure of English and the signs of the American sign language

Answer 10

Pidgin Sign English