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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Scrupulosity(also: Moral OCD, Religious OCD)
A subtype of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) characterized by obsessions about having violated moral, ethical, or religious standards — for example, fear of having sinned, of having been dishonest, or of unintentionally supporting something the person believes is wrong.…
Severe Speech Impairment(also: SSI)
A significant limitation in the ability to produce intelligible speech, often resulting from neurological conditions such as cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, or stroke. People with severe speech impairments may have little or no functional speech, making it difficult or…
Synaesthesia(also: Synesthesia)
Synaesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon in which a stimulus in one sensory modality automatically and involuntarily triggers an additional experience in a different modality or sub-modality - for example, seeing specific colours when hearing musical notes (chromesthesia),…

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