Deaf Ed Study Guide

4. Nearly what percentage of hearing parents fail to use sign language at home with their deaf children?
5. When a person is denied access to language during the developmental years of their life it is called language ___________.
9. The belief that deaf people learn best through learning to understand and develop spoken language.
11. Frenchman who helped bring Old French Sign to American Sign Language.
12. By this age, most of a person's language development has occurred.
15. Pidgin Signed English (PSE) or Signed Exact English (SEE) are an effective __________________ between English and ASL.
16. The person credited with advocating for the recognition of ASL as an official and recognized language.
17. What comes first in ASL grammar?
18. Country who is credited with opening the first ever deaf school.
19. How are facial expressions used in ASL?
22. Which group of Monks are known for taking a vow of silence to honor God?

1. Where did did Dr. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet travel to study methods for teaching the Deaf?
2. The belief that deaf people learn best through their natural language, sign language.
3. Early deaf educator who advocated for the use of lipreading and oralism over manualism.
6. Father of American Sign Language.
7. What percentage of deaf children are born to hearing parents?
8. ASL is more _____________________ than English.
10. Who believed Deaf people could not be educated (because without hearing, people "could not learn")?
13. Where do time words usually go in a sentence according to ASL grammar?
14. Where should you tap a deaf person when you want to get his or her attention?
20. Which conference brought about the dark ages of ASL?
21. Where do "wh" words go in the sentence in ASL grammar?