ASL Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. When describing a person, you should start by telling their _____________.
  2. 7. ___________ is the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time
  3. 8. A person who cannot hear is ______.
  4. 9. Many of the signs for the colors are _______________ (Hint: mine are K.A.)
  5. 11. What does ASL stand for?
  6. 15. The sign for ________ is made with a 'B' handshape on the side of the mouth.
  7. 17. Which of the 5 parameters includes head nods, facial expressions and mouth morphemes?
  8. 18. ______________ _____________ are extremely important in ASL. They show emotion, change questions from statements and add additional meaning to signs.
  9. 20. ____________ _____________ started Deaf schools across Africa.
Down
  1. 1. ___________________ is primarily used to tell the names of people and places.
  2. 3. Your _________ _____________ should be toward you for the numbers 1-5.
  3. 4. Your ____________ _________ should be used for fingerspelling.
  4. 5. ______________ can change the meaning of the sign 'nice' to 'clean'
  5. 6. Which of the 5 parameters changes to make the sign 'sorry' become the word 'please'?
  6. 10. When two signers are blocking your path and you need to get to the other side, you should __________ ____________ ______________.
  7. 11. If you don't know the sign for something (like the sign for dance) you could ______ ___ ______.
  8. 12. An appropriate response to the question, "What's up?" is ________________.
  9. 13. The signs for 'girl' and 'woman' occur on the ______________.
  10. 14. The signs for 'man' and 'boy' occur on the ________________.
  11. 16. ______ ____________ is extremely important in ASL. It is necessary to show that you are "listening".
  12. 19. American Sign Language is based on _________ Sign Language.