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22 Cards in this Set
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What are the 5 Paramaters of ASL? |
Non Manuals Hand Shape Palm Orientation Movement Location |
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Classifiers |
Specific hand-shapes used to represent objects. Example: A C hand shape placed on your non dominant hand to represent a cup. |
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Simultaneous Communication |
Speaking and Signing at the same time |
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Forms of Communication |
Lipreading Signing Gesters |
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Gallaudet University |
Founded in 1864 Washington D.C. Deaf President now in 1988 |
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Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet |
Established first school for the deaf in 1817 -Hartford Connecticut. |
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Laurant Claire |
First Deaf Teacher in America- brought back from France by Gallaudet. |
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Mason and Alice Codswell |
Alice was Gallaudet's deaf neighbor. Mason, her father, funded Gallaudet's trip to France. |
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COTAs |
Hearing children of deaf adults |
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% of deaf children born to hearing parents |
90% |
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Spatial Agreement |
Dedicating a place in your sign box for a person or place, and always using that place when you refer to them throughout the conversation. |
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Noun-Verb Pairs |
Words that are used twice for a noun, and once for a verb. Example: Door vs Open the door -Chair vs Sit -Window vs close window -Book vs open book |
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Fingerspelling Rules |
-keep going as you spell -spell from your non dominant to dominant side -slide double letters -palm facing out -continue from where you left off when your letters move, e.g "Z" |
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Numerical Incorporation |
Incorporate the number into the sign for numbers 1-9. |
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Quantity |
Palm facing in for quantities 1-5. |
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Deaf vs deaf |
Deaf- a term that refers to members of the Deaf culture. deaf- a medical term for those with a 'disability'. |
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What makes a Culture? |
Language Shared Experiences Social Customs Traditions Not a Disability Shared History Patterns of Behavior |
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Directional Verbs |
-also called Modified, Inflection, or Agreement Verbs. -verbs that move to indicate the action. Examples: Take Tell Throw |
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Contrastive Structure |
Using your dominant and non dominant sides to compare or contrast exactly 2 things. |
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Tense Indicators |
Indicate whether you are talking about the past, present, or future. Past: Yesterday Present: Now Future: Not Yet, Tomorrow, Next month/week/year etc. |
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Ways to make things Negative
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-drop the sign in some cases (don't remember, don't want, don't like). -Non Manuals -No, Nothing, None, or Not |
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Quantifiers |
2 of us, 3 of you, four of them |
