Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Language Acquisition(also: Language Development, Language Learning)
- The process by which humans develop the ability to perceive, produce, and use language to communicate. In deaf children, language acquisition presents unique challenges: 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents, and without early exposure to an accessible language (such…
- Languaging
- A sociolinguistic concept that reframes language as an ongoing activity rather than a fixed system. Developed by scholars including Alastair Pennycook and Li Wei, languaging treats communication as the dynamic use of all available linguistic and semiotic resources — words,…
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