Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Minimally Verbal(also: Minimally Speaking, Non-Speaking, Limited Verbal)
- A term describing individuals who use very few or no spoken words as their primary means of communication, despite potentially having communicative intent. This term is commonly used in autism contexts to describe autistic individuals who may have fewer than 20-30 functional…
- Monotropism
- A cognitive theory of autism, developed by Dinah Murray, Mike Lesser, and Wenn Lawson, that describes autistic attention as tending to be pulled strongly into a narrow focus (one "attention tunnel") rather than distributed broadly across many concurrent inputs. Monotropism…
- Multi-Sensory Environment(also: MSE, Snoezelen, Multisensory Room)
- A specially designed space that combines sensory stimuli — such as lighting, sound, textures, and aromas — to provide therapeutic, calming, or stimulating experiences for people with disabilities. Originally developed in the Netherlands under the name Snoezelen, multi-sensory…
- Music Therapy
- A clinical and evidence-based practice that uses music interventions to accomplish individualized therapeutic goals, including improving communication, social interaction, emotional expression, and motor skills. For people with disabilities, music therapy can be particularly…
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