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I've gathered around the words that are used in Deaf Community on daily basis.
- American Sign Language
- n. The primary sign language used by Deaf and hearing-impaired people in the United States and Canada, devised in part by Thomas
Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc on the basis of sign language in France. Also called Ameslan and A.S.L.
- Ameslan
- (see American Sign Language).
- A.S.L.
- (see American Sign Language).
- dactylology
- n. Communication by signs made with the fingers; called also fingerspelling.
- C.D.I.
- (see certified deaf interpreter)
- certified deaf interpreter
- is an individual who is deaf or hard of hearing and has been certified by the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf as an interpreter, may bee
needed when the communication mode of a deaf consumer is so unique that it cannot be adequately accessed by interpreters who are hearing.
- deaf
- n and adj. Partially or wholly lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing; unable to hear.
- Deaf
- adj. Of or pertaining to, relating to, or characteristic of the Deaf or their culture: Deaf Community, Deaf American.
- deaf-and-dumb
- adj. unable to hear or speak.
- deaf-and-dumb alphabet
- the manual alphabet used by deaf-muted or communicating with others (See manual alphabet).
- Deaf Education
- is a school program for Deaf students at either state residential school and public school which staffed sign language teachers and
interpreters.
- deaf-mute
- n. a deaf-and-dumb person, esp. one in whom inability to speak is due to congenital or early deafness.
- expressive
- adj. The gesturing of fingerspelling and signs.
- fingerspell
- v. fingerspells, fingerspelling, fingerspelled (or fingerspelt). The gesturing of manual alphabets and
numbers, useful for a word that has no sign, the signer does not know the sign for the certain word, or to spell a proper noun: "James,
fingerspell your name."
- fingerspelling
- n. Communication by signs made with the fingers; called also dactylology.
- gesture
- n. 1. A motion of the limbs or body made to express or help express thought or to emphasize speech. 2. The act of moving
the limbs or body as an expression of thought or emphasis.
- gesture
- v. gestures, gesturing, gestured. To show, express, or direct by gestures.
- hard-of-hearing
- n and adj. 1. Having a partial loss of hearing. 2. One who has a partial loss of hearing.
- hearing-impaired
- adj. 1. Having a diminished or defective sense of hearing, but not deaf; hard of hearing. 2. Completely incapable of hearing;
deaf. The term, hearing-impaired, is politically-corrected for the term, deaf.
- hearing-impaired
- n. Persons who are deficient in hearing or are deaf: The hearing-impaired are provided with special services at school. The
term, hearing-impaired, is politically-corrected for the term, deaf.
- intermediary
- (see certified deaf interpreter)
- interpret
- v. interprets, interpreting, interpreted. To translate.
- interpreter
- n. One who translates orally and visually from one language into another, a person who interprets, usually certified.
- manual alphabet
- The method used by Deaf community in various handshapes that representing alphabets and numbers.
- mainstreaming setting
- The method used by Deaf students with interpreters to get education in regular classroom with hearing students.
- receptive
- adj. The reading of fingerspelling and signs.
- self-contained setting
- The method used by Deaf students to get education with their Deaf peers and taught by sign language teachers.
- sign
- v. signs, signing, signed. To communicate with a sign or signs; to express (a word or thought, for example) by
sign language: signed her reply to the question.
- sign language (for the deaf)
- n. A system of articulated hand gestures and their placement relative but not limited to the upper body.
- sign language interpreter
- (see interpreter)
- Signed Exact English
- A signing system (not language) that reflects the spoken English and uses English word order. This system uses signs for root word and its
inflections. Every article, conjunction, auxiliary verb, etc. is signed.
- telecommunication device for the deaf or teletypewriter
- n. An electromechanical typewriter that either transmits or receives messages coded in electrical signals carried by telegraph or
telephone wires. Also called TDD, TTY, or TT. Deaf Community commonly use the abbreviation, TTY, and hearing individuals called the device a TDD.
- translate
- v. translates, translating, translated. 1. To render in another language. 2a. To put into simpler
terms; explain or interpret. b. To express in different words; paraphrase.
- translator
- n. 1. one that translates. 2. An interpreter.
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