Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Sign Language Interpreting(also: Sign Language Interpretation, ASL Interpreting)
- The professional practice of translating bidirectionally between a signed language (such as American Sign Language) and a spoken language (such as English) to facilitate communication between Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing individuals and hearing people. Sign language interpreters are…
- Socially Assistive Robot(also: SAR, Social Robot)
- A robot designed to assist people through social interaction rather than physical manipulation. Socially assistive robots use embodied presence, movement, and social behaviors such as gaze, gestures, and expressions to provide support in contexts including therapy, education,…
- Speech-Reading(also: Lip-Reading, Lipreading, Visual Speech Perception)
- The practice of understanding spoken language by visually interpreting the movements of the lips, face, tongue, and jaw of the speaker, along with contextual cues such as facial expressions and body language. Many deaf and hard of hearing people use speech-reading as one of…
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