Final Exam (ASL 1)

Question 0

American school for the deaf

Answer 0

1817
Hartford, Connecticut
First public school for the deaf in the US

Question 1

National theater for the deaf

Answer 1

Desk/hearing performers
Performed in 39 countries
Been on every continent

Question 2

National technical Institute for the deaf

Answer 2

NTID

1969

Question 3

Gallaudet University

Answer 3

1864

Washington, DC

Question 4

Maryland relay service

Answer 4

Voice carry-over phone (phone with screen)
Specialized phone service for deaf
#7–1–1 for the service

Question 5

I. King Jordan

Answer 5

First deaf president of Gallaudet
Death president now (DPN) March 1988
up against Zinser but lost

Question 6

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 6

Volta bureau (created for increased and diffusion of knowledge related to deaf)
Invented phone when trying to make deaf hearing aid 
Wanted to get rid of deaf

Question 7

Evelyn Glennie

Answer 7

Deaf percussionist
Played over 600 instruments
Plays barefoot and doesn’t sign(oralist)

Question 8

Jane Fernandez

Answer 8

Never took office at Gallaudet University
First female/death president at Guilford
Still works there at hearing college

Question 9

T. Alan Hurwitz

Answer 9

Current president of Gallaudet University
First Jewish/death Pres.
After Robert Davila

Question 10

Linda Bove

Answer 10

Actress on Sesame Street
2 theaters (Deaf West and Little Theater of the Deaf)
First performing deaf couple

Question 11

Marlee Matlin

Answer 11

Children of a lesser God
Lobbied captioned TV
Deaf actress

Question 12

Sean Berdy

Answer 12

Switched at birth
2011 teen choice awards
Exposes deafness to the world

Question 13

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Answer 13

American school for the deaf
Learn teaching methods under Abbé Sicard
Yale graduate (in college at 14, out at 18)

Question 14

Laurent Clerc

Answer 14

First deaf teacher in the US
Dead by falling from highchair
Was taught written English by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Question 15

Helen Keller

Answer 15

Deaf and blind
Pre-lingual
Member of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Question 16

Edward Gallaudet

Answer 16

Founded Gallaudet University
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet son
Named Gallaudet University after his father

Question 17

Abbé de L’Eppe

Answer 17

Father of deaf education

Founded the first deaf school in France

Question 18

Abbé Sicard

Answer 18

Taught Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet in France

Question 19

Robert Davilla

Answer 19

Intern president at Gallaudet University

Before T. Allen Hurwitz, after I. King Jordan

Question 20

Amos Kendall

Answer 20

gave land for deaf school

Question 21

Chuck Baird

Answer 21

Deaf artist

Incorporates deaf hand signs in his art

Question 22

Heather Whitestone

Answer 22

Miss America 1995

Question 23

National Association for the deaf

Answer 23

NAD

oldest organization of deaf in the US

Question 24

Contact sign

Answer 24

A mixture of signed English and ASL

Question 25

Signed English

Answer 25

Sign Word for Word like spoken

Question 26

Eustachian tube

Answer 26

Middle ear

Question 27

Cochlea

Answer 27

Inner ear