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Deaf Terminology

Horizontales
is discrimination (in belief or practice) based on a person’s abilities, whether developmental, learning, physical, psychiatric or sensory.
refers to individuals who identify with and participate in the language, culture, and community of Deaf people, based on a signed language. Deaf culture does not perceive hearing loss and deafness from a pathological point of view, but rather from a socio-cultural linguistic point of view, indicated by a capital ‘D’ as in “Deaf culture.” They may also use speech, residual hearing, hearing aids, speechreading and gesturing to communicate with people who do not sign.
Video Relay Service
Refers to people who have significant, but not necessarily total, loss of both vision and hearing (dual sensory loss).
refers to the use of manual signs communicated into the palm(s) of a Deaf-blind person’s hand(s) or when the Deaf-blind person places their hand(s) lightly on top of the hand(s) of the person they are signing/conversing with.
Verticales
describes individuals who grow up hearing or hard of hearing and, either suddenly or gradually, experience a profound hearing loss.
American Sign Language
is discrimination against a person who is Deaf or hard of hearing. It holds the belief that a hearing person or a deaf person who behaves in a manner more similar to a hearing person (in appearance, communication and language use, and/or function) is more intelligent, qualified, well-developed, and successful than another individual who may be culturally Deaf, oral deaf, deafened or hard of hearing and may prefer to use ASL sign language or has an accent in the production of spoken language due to hearing loss, or uses a communication accommodation unfamiliar and dissimilar to hearing people.
describes a person who does not have a hearing loss.
Assistive Listening Device
Communication Access Realtime Translation