Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Bicultural Identity(also: Biculturalism)
- An identity characterised by active participation in and identification with two distinct cultural communities — in the Deaf context, navigating both Deaf culture (sign-language based, with its own norms, humour, and social practices) and the surrounding hearing culture.…
- Bilingual-Bicultural Education(also: 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 written/spoken language as a second language, while engaging substantively with both…
- Black ASL(also: Black American Sign Language, BASL)
- A distinct dialect of American Sign Language that developed within the Black Deaf community, shaped by the history of racial segregation in Deaf education in the United States. Black ASL has its own lexical, phonological, and syntactic features that distinguish it from other ASL…
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