Terminology - Exam #1
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- Signing Space
- The Area in front of the body from the top of the head to the waist, and within the width of the elbows, in which the majority of signs are made in ASL.
- American Sign language (ASL)
- a visual gesture language used by deaf persons in the U.S.
- Oralism
- A way of training or educating deaf persons through speech reading without using signs or fingerspelling.
- Deaf Culture
- a set of beliefs and practices shared by a group of deaf people who also share a common sign language - ASL.
- Dr Orin Cornett
- Who developed Cued Speech?
- Manual Alphabet
- the 26 single hand positions representing the letters of the alphabet
- Manually Coded English (MCE)
- the use of signs, fingerspelling and markers to represent as specifically as possible the basic elements of the English Language
- Deaf Person
- Those in whom the sense of hearing is nonfunctional for the ordinary purposes in life.
- Contemporary ASL
- _______ is more like french sign language than british sign language
- Auditory-Verbal Education
- the development of speech and verbal language through maximized use of residual hearing which refers to the amount of usable hearing.
- Non-Dominant Hand
- In ASL, it is the less active hand
- Bilingual-bicultural (BI BI)
- Being fluent in two languages (asl and english) and having membership in both deaf and hard of hearing
- Cued Speech
- A sign system with 8 hand configurations that phonetically match the spoken words.
- Rochester Method
- A mode of communication in which spoken english is supplemented with simultaneous spelling of each spoken word.
- SEE 1
- ____ was designed to use ASL sign plus sign invented to represent both root words and the inflectional system of english
- No (Foreign Language)
- Is ASL universal?
- Adventitious Deafness
- Deafness in persons who are born with normal hearing - hearing loss becomes nonfunctional through an accident or illness
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- DHH stands for
- Contact sign/ Pidgin sign language
- A variety of sign language which combines some features of asl and english
- SEE 2
- Signing exact english is a sign system developed for educational purposes, which uses manual signs in english word order with added prefixes and suffixes.
- SEE 1
- Seeing Essential English AKA MSS morphological signing system.
- Congenital Deafness
- Deafness in persons who are born with nonfunctional hearing
- Dominant Hand
- In ASL, it is the more active hand.
- hard-of-hearing persons
- Those in whom the sense of hearing, although, defective, is functional with or without a hearing aid.