Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- 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 visual access, reinforce teacher-validated signs, and sustain comprehension…
- 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…
- 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 — but on sustained alignment across visual, linguistic, technological, and…
- Sign Language Learning(also: 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 fingerspelling and comprehending fast, connected signing are reported as the hardest skills…
- Signed Chinese(also: 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 commonly used in official Chinese television news interpretation and in deaf…
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