| accessibility | A-Language | American Sign Language | Anglicized ASL | Audism | Bilingual - Bicultural | B-Language |
| certificate | certify | C-Language | close vision interpreting | Cokely, Dennis | Colonomos, Betty | Conceptually Accurate Signed English |
| confidentiality | congenital deafness | Contact Sign | copy sign | cultural view (of Deaf people) | Deafblind | decode |
| encode | English-based signing | Ethnocentric | eye contact | Fant, Lou | Hearing-Impaired | High Visual Orientation |
| intervener | Japanese fingerbraille | Linguistics of Visual English | lipreading | marginalized | mentoring | mentorship |
| message | Minimal Language Competency | Minimal Language Skills | noise (psychological) | oral Deaf (person) | paternalism | pathological view (of d/Deaf people) |
| Pidgin Sign English | processing | profession, professional | Reciprocity of Perspectives | relay interpreting | Rochester Method | Seeing Essential English |
| shadow | Signed English | Signing Exact English | sign negotiation | Sign Supported Speech | Simultaneous Communication | small "d" deaf |
| Smith, Theresa | Solow, Sharon Neumann | source language | speechreading | SSP | stigma | stigmatize |
| Support Service Provider | tactile communication | tactile fingerspelling | Tadoma Method | target language | Total Communication | tracking |
| translate | visualization, visualize |
For the signs for these terms, see Signs for technical/specialized vocabulary.
For additional relevant terms, see Vocabulary list for Deaf studies, Vocabulary list for linguistics, and Vocabulary list for sociology and anthropology for cultural and cross-cultural terms.
For excellent definitions of vocabulary terms on interpreting and deafness, see ASLinfo.com's Styles of communication and Vocabulary [on deafness and interpreting].
