| A | B |
|---|
| ASL | American Sign Language |
| PSE | Pidgin Sign English |
| SEE | Signing Exact English |
| SE | Signed English |
| Train Go Sorry | Deaf Idiom |
| The pot calling the kettle black | Hearing Idiom |
| Washington DC Deaf College | Gallaudet University |
| Gallaudet's First Deaf President | I. King Jordon |
| TTY | teletypewriter |
| RID | Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf |
| NTD | National Theatre of the Deaf |
| NAD | National Association of the Deaf |
| Simultaneous Interpreting | Signing as the speaker is talking |
| Consecutive Interpreting | Signing when speaker is paused from speaking. |
| ALSTA | American Sign Language Teacher's Association |
| HoH | Hard of Hearing |
| CODA | Child of Deaf Adults |
| DoD | Deaf (child) of Deaf (adult) |
| AGBAD | Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf |
| CC | Closed Captioning |
