Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Postlingual Deafness(also: Postlingually Deaf, Acquired Hearing Loss)
- Hearing loss that occurs after a person has acquired spoken language, typically after about age three to five. Postlingually deaf people usually retain spoken-language fluency, literacy, and memory of sound, which affects their rehabilitation trajectory and their experience of…
- Prelingual Deafness(also: Prelingually Deaf, Congenital Deafness)
- Deafness present at birth or acquired before a child has developed spoken language, typically before around age three. Prelingually deaf individuals commonly learn a signed language as a first language and may have different literacy trajectories in the surrounding…
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