Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
29 results found in Healthcare.
- Occupational Therapy Assessment (OT Assessment, OT Evaluation, Client Evaluation)
- Occupational therapy assessment is the systematic process by which an occupational therapist evaluates a client's physical capabilities, cognitive function, emotional state, and ability to perform dai…
- Pediatric Rehabilitation (Children's Rehabilitation, Paediatric Rehabilitation)
- A specialized area of rehabilitation medicine focused on children and adolescents with disabilities, developmental delays, or injuries. Unlike adult rehabilitation which typically aims to restore lost…
- Remote Monitoring (Remote Patient Monitoring, RPM, Remote Care Monitoring)
- Remote monitoring is the collection of health, activity, or environmental data from a person in their own home or community setting and its transmission to carers, clinicians, or family members at a d…
- Residential Care (Care Home, Nursing Home, Long-Term Care Facility, Assisted Living)
- A facility that provides housing, personal care, and support services for individuals who cannot live independently due to age, disability, or health conditions. Residential care settings range from a…
- Speech Therapy (Speech-Language Therapy, Speech Pathology, Speech-Language Intervention)
- Clinical intervention provided by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, communication, and swallowing disorders. For speech sound disorders, effective tr…
- Speech and Language Therapist (SLT, Speech-Language Pathologist, SLP)
- A healthcare professional who assesses, diagnoses, and treats communication and swallowing disorders. Speech and language therapists play a critical role in the assistive technology ecosystem by evalu…
- Village Health Volunteer (VHV, Health Volunteer, Mor Prom)
- A locally-recruited lay community health worker who serves as a trusted bridge between formal healthcare services and households in rural or underserved areas. In Thailand, VHVs are trained and coordi…
- Virtual Patient (Virtual Client, Simulated Patient, Virtual Standardized Patient)
- A virtual patient is a computer-generated simulation of a person with specific health conditions or disabilities, used in clinical education to allow healthcare students to practise assessment, diagno…
- Vision Therapy (Visual Training, Orthoptics, Eye Training)
- A program of visual activities and exercises prescribed to improve visual skills and processing, often used to treat conditions like amblyopia, strabismus, and convergence insufficiency. Vision therap…