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LLM Disability Bias(also: AI Ableism, Language Model Disability Bias)

Systematic prejudice against people with disabilities embedded in large language models due to biased training data and development processes that underrepresent disabled communities. Research has documented multiple forms of this bias: pretrained language models associate…

Language Justice(also: Linguistic Justice)

A framework that advocates for the equal valuing and inclusion of all languages in social, educational, and technological contexts, challenging the dominance of English and other majority languages. In accessibility research, language justice highlights how reading support…

Liberatory access(also: Liberation-oriented access)

An approach to accessibility that goes beyond inclusion and assimilation to challenge the broader conditions of ableism and exclusion that create inaccessibility in the first place. Coined by disability justice activist Mia Mingus, liberatory access strives not just to help…

Linguicism(also: Linguistic Discrimination, Language Discrimination)

Discrimination or prejudice against individuals or groups based on the language or dialect they use, often intertwined with racism and ableism. In the Deaf community, linguicism commonly shows up as the privileging of spoken-language and English-based systems (Signed Exact…

Lived Experience(also: First-Person Experience)

Knowledge and understanding gained through direct personal experience of a condition, situation, or identity, as distinct from theoretical or observational knowledge. In disability and accessibility research, lived experience is increasingly recognized as a valuable and…

Lost Generation

In ADHD and autism discourse, the term refers to adults — particularly women, minority genders, and people of colour — who went undiagnosed as children due to gendered diagnostic criteria, systemic medical bias, and the historical exclusion of non-white, non-male bodies from…

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