Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
49 results found in Neurodiversity.
- Phonophobia (Sound Phobia, Ligyrophobia)
- Phonophobia is an intense fear or aversion to specific sounds or loud noises that goes beyond simple discomfort, often leading to avoidance behaviors such as fleeing from environments where triggering…
- Pragmatic language (Social language, Language pragmatics)
- The aspect of language concerned with how context, tone, social norms, and shared knowledge shape meaning beyond the literal words spoken or written. Pragmatic language skills include understanding sa…
- Sensory Processing (Sensory Integration, Sensory Processing Differences)
- Sensory processing refers to the way the nervous system receives, organizes, and responds to sensory input from the environment, including sound, light, touch, smell, taste, and movement. When sensory…
- Sensory overload (Sensory overstimulation, Overstimulation)
- A state in which the brain receives more sensory input than it can effectively process, leading to feelings of overwhelm, distress, anxiety, or shutdown. Sensory overload is particularly common among …
- Sensory processing (Sensory integration, Sensory modulation)
- The neurological process of receiving, organising, and interpreting sensory information from the environment (sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, proprioception, vestibular input) to produce appropriat…
- Spatial sensitivity (Personal space sensitivity, Proxemic sensitivity)
- Heightened awareness of and discomfort with the physical proximity of others or objects, particularly common among autistic individuals and people with anxiety or PTSD. Spatial sensitivity involves st…
- Special Interests (Restricted Interests, Intense Interests)
- Special interests are focused, intense, and often enduring areas of passion commonly observed in autistic children and adults - such as trains, dinosaurs, specific cartoon characters, or numerical sys…
- Tone indicator (Tone tag)
- A text-based marker appended to online messages to explicitly signal the intended emotional tone or communicative intent, such as /s for sarcasm, /j for joking, /gen for genuine, or /srs for serious. …
- Workplace disclosure model (Disclosure decision model, Joachim and Acorn framework)
- A theoretical framework for understanding how individuals with invisible disabilities decide whether, when, and how to disclose their condition at work, and the outcomes that follow. The Joachim and A…