Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

5 results found in Deaf Education.

Access-Stabilising Support
A design framing, introduced by Bhuiyan et al. (2026), that positions AI in Deaf education not as an autonomous translator or replacement instructor but as a mediated tool whose role is to preserve vi…
Bilingual-Bicultural Education (Bi-Bi Education, Bilingual Bicultural Education)
Bilingual-bicultural (Bi-Bi) education is an approach to Deaf education in which children learn in both a natural sign language (e.g., ASL, BSL, LSF, LGP) as a first language and the surrounding writt…
Fragile Learning Continuity
A framework proposed by Bhuiyan et al. (2026) to describe how accessibility in low-resource Deaf education depends not on any single feature — visibility, sign clarity, vocabulary, or connectivity — b…
Sign Language Learning (Sign Language Education, Sign Language Acquisition)
The process by which people learn a sign language as a first or second language, through instruction, immersion, or self-directed study. For hearing second-language learners, reading back fingerspelli…
Signed Chinese (Manually Coded Chinese, Wenfa Shouyu)
A manually coded signing system that imposes the grammar and word order of written/spoken Mandarin Chinese onto signs, analogous to Signed Exact English in anglophone contexts. Signed Chinese is commo…