NIC KNOWLEDGE EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
100% CORRECT | UPDATED 2025
ADA - ANSWER Americans with Disabilities Act-
Prohibits discrimination; Helps to provide interpreters for businesses.
ASLIA - ANSWER Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association
Audism - ANSWER The notion that one person is superior based on ones ability
to hear or behave in a manner of a hearing person. Or the idea that life is futile
and miserable if you cant hear. An attiude of negativity agist those who cnt hear.
AVLIC - ANSWER Association of Visual Language Interpreters
Charlotte Baker-Shenk - ANSWER Author of Multiple Sign Language books
CDI - ANSWER Certified Deaf Interpreter
Alexander Gram Bell - ANSWER Founded the first American telephone and
telegraph company in 1885
CEU - ANSWER Continuing Education Units
, Classifier - ANSWER A word or handshape used to represent the concept of a
Noun that has already been identified specifically (CL:1 or CL:V or CL:B) for
example.
Laurent Clerc - ANSWER Co founded the first school for the deaf in AMERICA:
The Hartford Asylum for Education and Instruction for the deaf, April 15, 1817. Re
named American School for the Deaf in 1821.
Who founded the firs School for the Deaf in North America? When? - ANSWER
Laurent Clerc; April 15, 1817
When was the Hartford Asylum renammed? What was the new name? -
ANSWER Re named American School for the Deaf; 1821.
Clozure Skills - ANSWER To supply words to complete a sentence; Used when
you didn't hear, understand or weren't paying attention to words that were
spoken.
CMP - ANSWER Caption Media Program- Promotes equal access to
communication and learning through captioned media.
CODA - ANSWER Child of Deaf Adult
Code Switching - ANSWER Switching from one language to another at the
same time; (Ex: SEE to ASL)
AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
100% CORRECT | UPDATED 2025
ADA - ANSWER Americans with Disabilities Act-
Prohibits discrimination; Helps to provide interpreters for businesses.
ASLIA - ANSWER Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association
Audism - ANSWER The notion that one person is superior based on ones ability
to hear or behave in a manner of a hearing person. Or the idea that life is futile
and miserable if you cant hear. An attiude of negativity agist those who cnt hear.
AVLIC - ANSWER Association of Visual Language Interpreters
Charlotte Baker-Shenk - ANSWER Author of Multiple Sign Language books
CDI - ANSWER Certified Deaf Interpreter
Alexander Gram Bell - ANSWER Founded the first American telephone and
telegraph company in 1885
CEU - ANSWER Continuing Education Units
, Classifier - ANSWER A word or handshape used to represent the concept of a
Noun that has already been identified specifically (CL:1 or CL:V or CL:B) for
example.
Laurent Clerc - ANSWER Co founded the first school for the deaf in AMERICA:
The Hartford Asylum for Education and Instruction for the deaf, April 15, 1817. Re
named American School for the Deaf in 1821.
Who founded the firs School for the Deaf in North America? When? - ANSWER
Laurent Clerc; April 15, 1817
When was the Hartford Asylum renammed? What was the new name? -
ANSWER Re named American School for the Deaf; 1821.
Clozure Skills - ANSWER To supply words to complete a sentence; Used when
you didn't hear, understand or weren't paying attention to words that were
spoken.
CMP - ANSWER Caption Media Program- Promotes equal access to
communication and learning through captioned media.
CODA - ANSWER Child of Deaf Adult
Code Switching - ANSWER Switching from one language to another at the
same time; (Ex: SEE to ASL)
