Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Category 3 Blindness(also: ICD-10 H54 Category 3, WHO Category 3 Visual Impairment)
- A classification of severe visual impairment under the World Health Organization's ICD-10 coding for disorders of the visual system (H54). Category 3 covers blindness in which the better eye has presenting visual acuity worse than 1/60 (20/1200 Snellen) but can still perceive…
- Comorbidity(also: Co-occurring Conditions, Dual Diagnosis)
- The simultaneous presence of two or more medical conditions or disorders in the same individual. Comorbidity is extremely common in neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions—for example, ADHD frequently co-occurs with anxiety, depression, autism, learning disabilities, and…
- Confabulation (Clinical)(also: Clinical Confabulation)
- Confabulation in a clinical sense is the unconscious production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories without the intent to deceive - the person genuinely believes what they are recounting. It is associated with dementia (particularly Alzheimer's and Korsakoff's…
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