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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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Order-Irrelevance Principle
The counting principle that the order in which objects are counted does not affect the total — counting the same set of objects in any sequence will yield the same number. This concept, while intuitive for most people, is often not understood by learners with dyscalculia, who…
Overselectivity(also: Stimulus Overselectivity, Overselective Attention)
A learning challenge in which an individual attends to only one or a few features of a stimulus while ignoring other relevant features, resulting in an inability to discriminate between stimuli that share some characteristics. For example, a child who is overselective might…

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