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Dementia-Friendly Community(also: Dementia Friendly Community)

An approach to inclusion in which public spaces, services, programs, and technologies are designed so that people living with dementia can continue to participate as active community members - shopping, using transport, attending cultural venues, socialising - alongside their…

Loss of Obscurity(also: Loss of anonymity)

A concept introduced by Thomas J. Carroll in his 1961 book "Blindness: What It Is, What It Does, and How to Live with It," in which he identified twenty distinct losses that accompany the onset of blindness. Loss of obscurity refers to the unavoidable conspicuousness of carrying…

Mixed-Visual Group(also: Mixed visual ability group, Mixed-visual ability group)

A group whose members include both blind or low-vision and sighted participants. The term is used in accessibility research on group activities (museum tours, classrooms, family outings, workplace meetings) to focus on the specific accessibility challenges that arise when blind…

Peer Culture

Peer culture is the body of shared understandings, values, social norms, communication practices, and play conventions that children co-construct among themselves through daily interaction - distinct from the adult culture that surrounds them. It defines who can join play, how…

Social Play

Social play is intrinsically motivated, voluntary activity between two or more children that has no purpose beyond itself, yet is essential to emotional, cognitive, and social development. Developmental researchers categorise it along two axes: social level (Parten's six stages…

Window Shopping(also: Recreational window-shopping, Browsing)

The casual practice of looking at shops, displays, or goods without a specific purchase in mind — social activity valued for its own sake as much as for any eventual transaction. Accessibility research frames window-shopping as a form of non-instrumental exploration that is…

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