Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
25 results found in Disability Justice.
- Simultaneous Assistance
- Simultaneous assistance, described by Cynthia Bennett and Daniela Rosner, is a form of support in which help flows in multiple directions at once rather than unidirectionally from a non-disabled helpe…
- Supported Decision-Making (SDM)
- A legal and practical alternative to guardianship in which a person with a cognitive or developmental disability retains decision-making authority over their own life while receiving support from trus…
- Testimonial Injustice
- A form of epistemic injustice, articulated by Miranda Fricker, in which a speaker's credibility is unjustly deflated because of prejudice attached to their identity. In accessibility and aging researc…
- Whole-Self (Whole Self)
- A concept from disability justice that frames a disabled person's identity, needs, and preferences as a rich, multidimensional whole — cultural background, lived experiences, interests, relationships,…
- Wholeness
- Wholeness is a core principle of the 10 Principles of Disability Justice articulated by Sins Invalid: the recognition that 'each person is full of history and life experience' and has inherent worth o…