Deaf Awareness Month

Historically, American Sign Language is related to

• British Sign Language

• French Sign Language

• Swedish Sign Language

• German Sign Language

What percent of Deaf people have deaf parents?

• 10%

• 25%

• 50%

• 75%

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

• Stylistic

• Grammatical

• Emotive

• Attention

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

• Speech and Lipreading

• Writing back and forth

• Using Sign Language

• Using Interpreters

What terminology should you avoid using

• Deaf and dumb

• Deaf-mute

• Hearing Impaired

• All the above

What percentage of hearing parents do not sign with their deaf children?

• More than 70%

• 50%

• 0%

• 100%

True or False: When communicating with a Deaf or hard of hearing person through an ASL interpreter you should still speech directly to the deaf person and maintaining eye contact just as you would any other person.

• True

• False

True or False: There are more than 300 different types of sign language in the world.

• True

• False

True or False: All deaf people can lip read effectively

• True, it's so easy!

• True, as long as the speaker is clear.

• False, only 30-40% of speech sounds can be lipread.

• False, speakers often speak too fast to be able to lipread.

True or False All Deaf people learn to speak?

• True, if they receive speech therapy they can learn to speak

• False, its a personal preference to use their voice or not