Glossary
Do you sometimes feel unsure what accessibility, inclusion or Universal Design really means? Have you asked yourself how to define empowerment or equality? Don't worry, you are not alone.
To help you navigate through the many and sometimes difficult terms around disability and development cooperation, we have compiled a glossary for you.
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A - F
- Ableism
- Accessibility
- Accountability
- Affirmative action
- Alternate text
- Assistive devices
- Barriers
- Braille
- Closed captioning
- Coherence
- Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART)
- Community Based Inclusive Development (CBID)
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
- Core international human rights conventions
- CRPD Committee
- Data disaggregation
- Disability
- Disability-inclusive development (DID)
- Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs)
- Diversity
- Duty bearers
- Easy to read
- Effectiveness
- Efficiency
- Empowerment
- Equality
- Equity
G - L
M - S
- Mainstreaming
- Marginalised groups
- Medical model of disability
- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
- Models of disability
- Non-discrimination
- Nothing about us without us
- Organisations of Persons with Disabilities (OPDs)
- Ownership
- Personal assistance
- Photovoice
- Plain language
- Psychosocial disabilities
- Reasonable accommodation
- Relevance
- Rights holders
- Self-determination
- Sendai Framework
- Sensory impairments
- Sign Language
- Social model of disability
- Sustainability