Sexual Violence

Any sexual act, attempt, or coercion that occurs without the freely given consent of the person involved. In accessibility research, sexual violence is a significant concern because disabled and neurodivergent populations - including autistic adults and people with ADHD - experience sexual violence at substantially higher rates than the general population. A subset of these experiences has been linked to sociocommunicative barriers, motivating accessible consent technologies and education that do not assume verbal-default communication.