Glossary

One’s individual and unique attributes that make up their personal sense of self and which impact their experience of and within the world.

Frames disability as an inherent part of a person’s experience of the world and acknowledges that truly seeing a person means seeing the totality of their experience; it incorporates disability into identity, characterizing it as a valuable aspect of self rather than as something bad that needs to be isolated and fixed.

Invented language; usually a trait of Gestalt Language Processing.

The act of extending fellowship, membership, association, and connection, and ensuring differing needs aren’t a barrier to participation.

Sharing information in great detail about a beloved topic/joyful occupation as a means of building a connection with something; sharing in this way with someone who listens can be exhilarating and restorative. Pathological/deficit framing of info-dumping characterises it as: poor turn-taking, social deficits, interrupting, lack of reciprocity, ignoring social cues, being repetitive and overly verbose, and demonstrating a lack of awareness of social conventions.

Internal sensations that indicate physiological state of being, i.e. being hungry, feeling nervous