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

name sign sign name

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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