Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Common Ground(also: Grounding, Mutual Understanding)
- The shared knowledge, beliefs, and assumptions that conversation participants use to understand each other. In communication theory, grounding is the process by which speakers establish and maintain this mutual understanding through strategies such as referencing shared context,…
- Communication Burden(also: Burden of Communication, Conversational Burden)
- The disproportionate effort that people with communication-related disabilities must exert to participate in conversations, particularly in mixed-ability groups. In the context of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) individuals, communication burden refers to the repeated need to ask…
- Communication Partner(also: CP, Conversation Partner)
- A person who communicates with an AAC user, whether through speech, sign, or other means. Communication partners play a critical role in the success of AAC interactions — their willingness to wait, their ability to interpret messages, and their understanding of AAC devices…
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