Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Camouflaging(also: Masking, Social Camouflage, Autistic Masking)
- Camouflaging, also known as masking, is the conscious or unconscious suppression of autistic traits and adoption of neurotypical behaviors in order to fit into social situations. This can include forcing eye contact, suppressing stimming, rehearsing social scripts, and imitating…
- Circumplex Model of Emotion(also: Russell Circumplex Model, Valence-Arousal Model, Circumplex Model of Affect)
- A psychological model proposed by James Russell in 1980 that arranges emotional states in a two-dimensional plane defined by valence (pleasant vs unpleasant) and arousal (activated vs calm). The four quadrants correspond to high-arousal positive (e.g. excited, happy),…
- Cognitive Flexibility(also: Mental Flexibility, Set Shifting, Task Switching)
- The executive function that allows a person to adapt their thinking and behavior in response to changing demands, switch between tasks, or consider multiple perspectives simultaneously. Cognitive flexibility is often challenged in autism, ADHD, and other neurodevelopmental…
- Cross-modal(also: Cross-modal Correspondence, Cross-modal Perception)
- The phenomenon whereby information or stimulation in one sensory modality (such as vision) systematically influences or corresponds with perception in another modality (such as hearing or touch). In accessibility contexts, cross-modal correspondences are exploited in sensory…
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