Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- People Who Stutter(also: PWS, Person Who Stutters, Adults Who Stutter)
- An identity-first and community-preferred term for people who experience stuttering, a neurodevelopmental condition involving involuntary speech disfluencies such as blocks, prolongations, and repetitions. PWS affects roughly 1% of the global population. Community usage (PWS,…
- Person-First Language(also: People-First Language, PFL)
- Person-first language is a linguistic convention that places the person before the disability or condition, such as "person with a disability" or "person with autism," with the intent of emphasizing personhood over diagnosis. While widely adopted in professional and medical…
- Post-SCI Identity(also: Post-Injury Identity)
- The ongoing process of reconstructing self-concept and personal identity following a spinal cord injury. Rather than a one-time adjustment, identity recreation after SCI is a continuous, non-linear process significantly influenced by periodic changes in motor functionality, such…
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