Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
30 results found in therapy.
- 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…
- Rehabilitation (Rehab, Therapeutic Rehabilitation)
- A set of interventions designed to restore or optimize functioning and reduce disability in individuals with health conditions. Rehabilitation may address physical, cognitive, sensory, or communicatio…
- SUDS (Subjective Units of Distress Scale, Subjective Units of Disturbance Scale)
- A self-report scale, typically ranging from 0 to 100 or 0 to 10, used to measure the intensity of subjective distress or anxiety experienced by an individual in a given moment. SUDS ratings are widely…
- Serious Games (Applied Games, Games for Health, Therapeutic Games)
- Games designed with a primary purpose beyond entertainment, such as education, training, therapy, or rehabilitation. In accessibility contexts, serious games are increasingly used for vision therapy, …
- Social Motor Synchrony (Interpersonal Synchrony, Motor Synchrony)
- The spontaneous or intentional coordination of body movements between two or more people during social interaction, such as matching rhythms, mirroring gestures, or moving in temporal alignment. Socia…
- Speech and Language Therapy (SLT, Speech-Language Pathology, SLP, Speech Therapy)
- A healthcare discipline focused on assessing and treating communication difficulties including speech, language, voice, fluency, and swallowing disorders. Speech and language therapists work with peop…
- Speech-Language Therapy (Speech Therapy, SLT, Speech-Language Pathology)
- A clinical practice focused on assessing and treating communication disorders including speech, language, voice, fluency, and swallowing difficulties. Speech-language therapists (or speech-language pa…
- Thought Diffusion (Cognitive Defusion, Defusion)
- A technique from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in which a person creates psychological distance from an intrusive thought by recognizing and naming it as simply a thought, rather than treating it …
- Trigger Hierarchy (Exposure Hierarchy, Fear Hierarchy, Fear Ladder)
- A ranked list of situations, objects, or thoughts that trigger OCD anxiety, ordered from least to most distressing as measured by subjective distress ratings (SUDS). Trigger hierarchies are a foundati…
- 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…