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Adventitious Deafness

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Deafness that occurs after birth; illness or accident

*usually spinal meningitis

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Congenital Deafness

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Deafness at birth

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Deaf Community

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Deaf people like to live near each other

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Expressive Skill

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Ability to accurately communicate ASL to others

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Receptive Skill

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Ability to accurately understand someone communicating ASL to you

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Non-manual Behavior

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Visual cues not signed with hand(s) that are part of the sign

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Lipreading/Speechreading

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A method of understanding unheard messages by observing lip and facial movements

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Cued Speech

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Used in tandem with lipreading; combo of hand shapes that represent some vowels and consonants and where they’re placed on face

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Iconicity

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The characteristic of a sign to resemble what it represents

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Syntax

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The order or structure of words to form a sentence (grammar rules)

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Initialized Sign

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Your hand shape is the first letter of the English word

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Manually Coded English

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The umbrella term for a group of signing systems that used English grammer

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Seeing Essential English (SEE 1)

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Idea of SEE 1: sign for car + sign for pet = carpet

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Signing Exact English (SEE 2)

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Devised to teach deaf students English grammar; made up words

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Pidgin (PSE)/ Contact Sign

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Blend of two languages

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Linguistics of Visual English (LOVE)

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A system of notating in written form the ASL signs

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Finger Spelling

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(In the U.S.) using one hand to represent all 26 letters of the alphabet

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Conceptually Accurate Signed English (CASE)

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(Last MCE) Pay attention to what the signs mean, instead of what they say

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American Sign Language (ASL)

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Language used by the Deaf community

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Children of Deaf Adults (CODA)

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Hearing children that have deaf parents

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Simultaneous Method of Communication (SimCom)

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The use of both manual and oral communication at the same time

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Code-switching

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A tactic that deaf people use to communicate with hearing signers

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William Stokoe

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Proved that ASL was a real language

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Five Parameters of a Sign

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  1. Hand Shape (what it looks like?)
  2. Location (where is the sign?)
  3. Movement (does the sign move? if so, how?)
  4. Palm Orientation (facing out, up, down?)
  5. Non-Manual (does it have a non-manual action?)