Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
16 results found in child development.
- Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI, Cortical Visual Impairment)
- Cerebral visual impairment (CVI) is an umbrella term for visual deficits resulting from damage to the brain rather than the eyes. It affects visual perception, including visual acuity, cortical image …
- Dyspraxia (Developmental Coordination Disorder, DCD)
- A neurodevelopmental condition affecting motor planning, coordination, and the sequencing of movements. People with dyspraxia have difficulty translating intended actions into coordinated physical mov…
- Early Intervention (EI, Early Childhood Intervention)
- Services and support provided to infants and young children (typically birth to age 3 or 5) with developmental delays or disabilities, and their families. For DHH children, early intervention is criti…
- Early Intervention (EI, Early Childhood Intervention)
- Early intervention refers to services and supports provided to infants and young children (typically from birth to age six) who have developmental delays, disabilities, or conditions that place them a…
- Emergent Literacy (Early Literacy, Pre-literacy)
- The developmental process through which young children (typically birth through age 5) acquire foundational skills and concepts about reading and writing before formal instruction begins. For sighted …
- Family-Centered Learning (Family-Centered Education)
- An educational approach that actively involves family members in the learning process, recognizing that home environments and family participation significantly impact learning outcomes, often more th…
- Incidental Learning (Observational Learning, Informal Learning)
- Knowledge and skills acquired without deliberate instruction, typically through casual observation of the environment and other people. An estimated 80% of early childhood learning occurs incidentally…
- Language Deprivation (Linguistic Deprivation)
- The condition that occurs when children do not receive sufficient accessible language input during critical developmental periods, leading to atypical neural development, cognitive delays, and lifelon…
- Multiple Cue Responding (MCR)
- The ability to observe and attend to multiple features of a stimulus simultaneously (such as colour, shape, and size) and use all of those features to make decisions. Multiple cue responding is a foun…
- Peripersonal Space (Near space, Reaching space)
- The area immediately surrounding the body that is within arm's reach, typically extending about 60-70 cm from the body. Peripersonal space is significant in accessibility because blind and visually im…
- Pivotal Response Training (PRT, Pivotal Response Treatment)
- A naturalistic, child-initiated behavioural intervention developed for children with autism that targets "pivotal" skills — foundational abilities whose improvement produces widespread positive change…
- Sensory Based Motor Disorder (SBMD)
- A subtype of Sensory Processing Disorder in which the brain has difficulty using sensory information to plan and execute motor actions. SBMD encompasses two sub-types: postural disorder, which affects…
- Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD, Sensory Integration Disorder, Sensory Integration Dysfunction)
- A condition in which the brain has difficulty receiving, organizing, and responding to sensory information from the environment and the body. People with Sensory Processing Disorder may be oversensiti…
- Social Attention (Social Orienting)
- The set of behaviours, motivations, and perceptual processes involved in directing and coordinating attention toward other people during social interaction. Social attention includes orienting toward …
- Speech Delay (Language Delay, Delayed Speech)
- A condition in which a child does not develop speech and language skills at the expected rate for their age. Speech delay can affect the production of sounds (articulation), the ability to form words …
- Vocal Development (Speech Development, Vocal Production Development)
- The process by which individuals acquire and refine the ability to produce speech sounds and vocalizations. In typically developing children, vocal development progresses through stages from cooing an…