Vocabulary list for Deaf studies
David Bar-Tzur
ASSISTIVE HEARING/ LIVING DEVICES
| baby crier |
body aid |
cochlear implant |
hearing aid (ITE) |
hearing aid (OTE) |
hearing ear dog |
operator |
| pager |
relay |
strobe light |
Wyndtell |
AUDIOLOGY
| age-of-onset |
acoustics |
amplification |
amplifier |
amplify |
amplitude |
audiology |
| auditory canal |
auditory nerve |
characteristic |
decibel |
degree |
extent |
feedback |
| frequency |
hearing loss |
adventitious (~) |
conductive (~) |
congenital (~) |
mild (~) |
moderate (~) |
| postlingual (~) |
postvocational (~) |
prelingual (~) |
prevocational (~) |
mild (~) |
profound (~) |
sensorineural (~) |
| severe (~) |
intensity |
loudness |
medium |
middle ear |
monotone |
noise |
| non-functional |
outer ear |
pinna |
pitch |
pressure |
sound |
sound source |
| sound wave |
speech |
vibrate, vibration |
volume |
wave |
wave compression |
wave condensation |
COMMUNICATION MODES AND METHODS
| American Sign Language (ASL) |
Anglicized ASL |
Conceptually Accurate Signed English |
Contact Sign |
Cued Speech |
cueing |
English-based signing |
| fingerspell |
fingerspelling |
gesture |
late-deafened |
lipreading |
listening |
LOVE (Linguistics of Visual English) |
| Manual Codes for English |
manual communication |
MCEs |
method |
mime |
mode |
non-verbal |
| oral |
Pidgin Sign English |
reading |
read out loud |
read to yourself |
Rochester Method |
SEE 1 |
| SEE 2 |
Seeing Essential English |
sign (ASL) |
sign (English) |
Signed English |
Signing Exact English |
sign language |
| Sign Supported Speech |
sim-com |
simultaneous communication |
speech |
speechreading |
verbal |
Visible English |
| writing |
DEAF CULTURE
EDUCATIONAL METHODOLOGIES/ PHILOSOPHIES
| auditory |
Bi-Bi |
Bilingual-Bicultural |
day school |
mainstreaming |
manualism |
methodology |
| oralism |
philosophy |
residential school |
Total Communication |
unistream |
OPPRESSION AND LIBERATION
| Audism |
cultural view (of d/Deaf people) |
Deaf power |
disempower |
empower |
handicap |
impairment |
| liberation |
marginalized |
normal |
oppression |
paternalism |
pathological view (of d/Deaf people) |
patronize |
| patronized |
Reciprocity of Perspectives |
stigma |
stigmatize |
World Federation of the Deaf |
PEOPLE AND LABELS
| adventitious (age of onset) |
Big "D" Deaf |
Bilingual-Bicultural |
Baird, Chuck |
Bragg, Bernard |
Clerc, Laurent |
Cogswell, Alice |
| Cogswell, Dr. Mason F. |
Cokely, Dennis |
Colonomos, Betty |
deaf (small d) |
Deaf (big D) |
Davilla, Robert |
Deaf Smith, Erastus |
| de l'Epée, Abée |
Gallaudet, Thomas Hopkins |
Gaulladet, Thomas Miner |
Gallaudet University |
Graybill, Patrick |
hard of hearing |
hearing impaired |
| hearing person |
High Visual Orientation |
Lane, Harlan |
late-deafened |
Matlin, Marlee |
MJ (Bienvenu) |
Minimal Language Competency |
| Minimal Language Skills |
Moore, Matthew |
oral Deaf (person) |
small "d" deaf |
Stokoe, William |
Suppala, Sam |
Suppala, Ted |
| Valli, Clayton |
For the signs for these terms, see Signs for technical/specialized vocabulary.
For additional relevant terms, see Vocabulary list for interpreting and Vocabulary list for linguistics.
For excellent definitions of vocabulary terms on interpreting and deafness, see ASLinfo.com's Styles of communication and Vocabulary [on deafness and interpreting].
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