Deaf Culture and Grammar Unit 1

What is American Sign Language?

• A visual form of English and a language that relies on mime

• A language that relies on mime and picture-like gestures to express ideas and concepts

• A language capable of expressing abstract ideas and utilizing space and movement to convey meaning

• Language using picture-like gestures to express ideas and concepts and a visual form of English

The role of facial expressions, head movements, and eye gaze in ASL is primarily:

• grammatical

• stylistic

• emotive

• unnecessary

To get the attention of a Deaf person who is looking the other way, you should:

• yell as loud as you can

• tap him/her on the shoulder

• wave in his/her face

• go around and stand in front of the person

Other than the word, "Deaf," a culturally appropriate way to identify Deaf people would be to say they are:

• Deaf and dumb

• Hearing impaired

• Hard of Hearing

• none of the above

ASL users, fingerspelling is mainly for...

• As an artistic form of signing

• Interchangeably with any sign

• For everything

• To give names to people and places and specify brand names

In general, the least effective communication strategy between Deaf and hearing people is:

• speech and lipreading

• using Sign Language

• writing back and forth

• using interpreters

WH questions your eyebrows go up

• True

• False

Deaf people can drive

• True

• False

What is an NMS?

• non manual signal or facial expression

• no man safe

• non monday sign

• no mean signals

When Deaf people are introduced what do they include?

• Hear status

• The school they went to

• Their sign name

• All of the above