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Deaf Awareness History

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is American Sign Language related to historically:

a)

British Sign language

b)

Russian Sign language

c)

French Sign language

d)

Swedish Sign language

2.

What is American Sign Language (ASL):

a)

language utilizing space and movement to convey meaning

b)

doing random signs

c)

a language capable of expressing any abstract idea

d)

a language using pictures to convey meaning

3.

Who was the person who studied the methods of teaching sign in France:

a)

Pedro Ponce de León

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

4.

What percent of Deaf people have Deaf Parents?

a)

1 percent

b)

75 percent

c)

10 percent

d)

50 percent

e)

25 percent

5.

What was the name of the first school for the Deaf in America?(choose all that apply)

a)

American Sign Language School

b)

American School for the Deaf

c)

The Deaf and Dumb Persons School

d)

The Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons

6.

When was the ASL dictionary finished?:

a)

1965

b)

1980

c)

2003

d)

1834

7.

What year did the Americans with Disabilities Act take place ?

a)

1980

b)

2000

c)

1995

d)

1990

8.

Who returned to America with Gallaudet ?:

(a)  

9.

In what year was the first school for the Deaf opened in America?

a)

April 15th, 1817

b)

April 15th, 1871

10.

What city was the first permanent ASL school established in? :

a)

Hartford

b)

New York

c)

Austin

11.

What year was French ASL founded :

a)

1760

b)

1660

c)

1560

d)

1460

12.

when is national deaf awareness month

a)

April

b)

December

c)

September

d)

March

13.

(Difficult) What was the device created in 1960 that expanded long-distance communication for the deaf ?:

a)

TTY(Teletypewriter)

b)

TDD(Telephone device)

c)

VRI(Video Remote Interpreter)

d)

Email

14.

(Difficult) What is the NAD ?:

a)

A secret organization like the FBI

b)

an organization that promotes civil rights for deaf individuals

c)

an organization that promotes civil rights for hearing and deaf individuals

d)

an organization that helps the hearing and deaf communicate

15.

(Difficult) Who was the person that spoke for three days against the ASL advocates that only spoke for three hours about oralism? :

a)

Gardiner Green Hubbard

b)

Horace Mann

c)

Alexander Graham Bell

d)

Samuel Gridley Howe