Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
69 results found in Disability Studies.
- Situational Disability (Situational Impairment, Contextual Disability)
- A temporary limitation in ability caused by environmental or situational factors rather than a medical condition. Examples include being unable to hear audio in a noisy environment, having limited dex…
- Social accessibility (Social model of access)
- An approach to accessibility that recognises the role of social interactions, human help, and community practices in enabling access for people with disabilities, rather than focusing solely on techno…
- Special Education (Special Needs Education, SPED)
- Educational programs, services, and instruction specifically designed to meet the unique needs of students with disabilities. Special education encompasses a range of settings from fully inclusive cla…
- Spoon Theory (Spoons)
- A metaphor created by Christine Miserandino to explain the limited energy available to people living with chronic illness or disability. In this framework, each daily activity costs a certain number o…
- Spoon theory (Spoons, Energy accounting)
- A metaphor created by Christine Miserandino to explain the limited energy reserves experienced by people with chronic illness and disabilities. "Spoons" represent units of energy, and every activity —…
- Symbolic Interactionism (SI)
- A sociological tradition, associated with Herbert Blumer and the Chicago School following George Herbert Mead, that understands social reality as constructed through ongoing interaction: people act to…
- Temporary Disability (Short-Term Disability, Transient Disability)
- A disability or impairment that is expected to be temporary in duration, resulting from illness, injury, surgery, or other medical conditions. Temporary disabilities create access needs that may be id…
- Translanguaging
- The practice of drawing on multiple languages within a single interaction or communication act, leveraging a person's full linguistic repertoire rather than treating languages as separate, bounded sys…
- World-Making (Worldmaking)
- World-making, drawing on Nelson Goodman's 'Ways of Worldmaking' and extended in disability scholarship by Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, refers to the active construction of shared social worlds throug…