ASL 2 terms
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- Inflection
- Changes in the movement of a sign to indicate the frequency or duration of an event.
- Conductive Hearing Loss
- Hearing impairment due to disruption of sound through the outer or inner ear.
- Sensorimeural Hearing Loss
- Hearing impariment due to sensory or nerve damage in inner ear, auditory nerve, or auditory cortex of the brain.
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Federal law that requires ALL public places to be accessible to disabled persons.
- Closed Captioned (CC)
- text to accompany sound on a TV program.
- Gallaudet
- Man credited with bringing modern-day sign language to America.
- Individual Education Plan (IEP)
- an annually developed plan to address the needs of every ESE student.
- Mainstream
- Including an ESE student into a non-ESE classroom; all are functioning on the same level.
- Inclusion
- Including an ESE student into a non-ESE classroom; student is functioning on a different academic level.
- Minimal Language Skills (MLS)
- Deaf individuals with little or no education and whose command of American Sign Language, or any language, is poor or nonexistent.
- Manual Communication
- The generic term used for any communication using signs and/or fingerspelling.
- Oral Communication
- Communication through speaking, listening, and speech-reading WITHOUT the use of sign language.
- Total Communication
- The philosophy of education that incorporates sign language, gestures, and fingerspelling.
- Simultaneous Communication (SIMCOM)
- The act of expressing oneself by signing and speaking at the same time.
- Signer
- A person who uses sign language.
- Interpret
- The process of changing messages from one language IMMEDIATELY into another language; the process of changing spoken English into ASL.
- Transliterate
- The process of changing spoken Englisf into signed English.
- Voice-to-sign interpreting
- The process of rendering a spoken message into a signed message.
- Sign-to-voice interpreting
- The process of rendering a signed message into a spoken message.
- Qualified Interpreter (QA I, II, III)
- An interpreter who has passed a state level screening.
- Educational Interpreter (EIE I, II, III)
- An interpreter who has passed an evaluation specific to an educational setting.
- Certified Interpreter (RID, CI/CT)
- An interpreter who has passed the national evaluation demonstrating advanced interpreting or transliterating skills.