Filipino Sign Language (FSL) in Children's Educational Television (CETV) Flashcards

A set of vocabulary flashcards covering the legislative, theoretical, and conceptual foundations of Filipino Sign Language integration in Children's Educational Television.

Republic Act 11106 (2018)

Also known as the Filipino Sign Language Act, it declares $FSL$ as the official sign language of the Filipino Deaf community in schools, government dealings, media, and workplaces.

Filipino Sign Language ($FSL$)

The national sign language of the Philippines recognized, promoted, and supported as the medium of official communication for all transactions involving the deaf and as the language of instruction for deaf education.

Children's Television Act (RA 8370, 1997)

A law mandated by the National Council of Children's Television that requires $15\%$ of daily airtime to be dedicated to educational children's programs.

PSA 2020 Census (Hearing Difficulty)

Reported data indicating there are $1.78 \text{ million}$ Filipinos with hearing difficulty, with $43,835$ of them being children between the ages of $5$ and $14$.

DepEd Order 44 (2021)

An order emphasizing accessibility and inclusive education for learners with disabilities, including the use of $FSL$ in basic education.

Diffusion of Innovation Theory

A theory popularized by Everett Rogers in $1962$ describing the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among members of a social system.

Innovation

An idea, practice, or object perceived as new by an individual or another unit of adoption.

Innovation-Decision Process

A five-stage model consisting of knowledge, persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation used to study the stages of adoption for a specific innovation.

Reinvention

The degree to which an innovation is changed or modified by a user during the process of its adoption and implementation.

Arrested Diffusion

A state where a new idea, practice, or innovation starts to spread but then gets "stuck" or hindered due to specific barriers or system failures.

Relative Advantage

A principle in Diffusion of Innovation Theory stating that an innovation is more likely to be adopted if it is perceived as having better benefits and lower complexity than existing methods.

Observability

A concept where an innovation's results are visible; in this study, it refers to a child's ability to learn from a well-designed, accessible educational TV show just by watching.

Trialability

The degree to which an innovation can be tested on a limited basis; cited in the study as being currently zero in traditional TV due to the complete absence of accessible programming.

Audio-centric Design

A structural failure in media systems where information is delivered exclusively through spoken language, creating an artificial learning gap for Deaf children.

Digital Migration

The shift of Deaf children and their guardians from traditional television to online platforms like YouTube or Netflix for inclusive educational content.

Linguistic Equity

The principle of ensuring that Deaf audiences can engage with content on an equal cognitive footing with hearing viewers by removing auditory obstacles.

Visual-Linguistic Structural Integration Framework

A recommended approach for the media industry to move away from treating $FSL$ as a post-production "patch" and instead integrating it as a core requirement during the pre-production phase.

Thematic Coding

The primary method used for analyzing data from in-depth interviews, as defined by Braun & Clarke ($2006$), to identify recurring patterns and meanings.

National Council of Children's Television (NCCT)

The governing body responsible for implementing the Children's Television Act and collaborating on content development for inclusive media.