Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Early Intervention(also: EI, Early Childhood Intervention)
- Early intervention refers to services and supports provided to infants and young children (typically from birth to age six) who have developmental delays, disabilities, or conditions that place them at risk for developmental difficulties. The aim is to reduce or compensate for…
- Electrical Muscle Stimulation(also: EMS, Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation, NMES)
- A technique that uses electrical impulses delivered through surface electrodes to elicit muscle contractions. EMS is used therapeutically for muscle re-education, spasticity management, and rehabilitation, and has been explored in HCI as an output modality — for example, guiding…
- Exposure and Response Prevention(also: ERP, Exposure Therapy)
- The gold-standard evidence-based treatment for OCD in which individuals gradually confront situations that trigger their obsessions (exposure) while refraining from performing their usual compulsive responses (response prevention). ERP follows a structured approach using a…
- Expressive Writing(also: Pennebaker Paradigm)
- A therapeutic writing practice, formalised by James Pennebaker in the 1980s, in which individuals write about emotionally significant or traumatic experiences for short, repeated sessions. Decades of empirical evidence link expressive writing to measurable benefits in physical…
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