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Understanding the Concept of Cognitive Disability

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Design for Equality and Justice (INTERACT 2023)

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This article provides a critical analysis of the current research terminology used to describe people with cognitive disability, intellectual impairment, neurodiversity, mental disorder, or psychological dysfunction. Medical diagnoses of the brain, nerves, mind, or psyche inform the use of these terms for describing behavior that is not deemed “normal” in humans. Cognitive disability is proposed as a more appropriate one than other similar terminologies after an analysis of diverse policy documents and academic publications.

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    Neither mental nor intellectual.

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  1. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

    Masood Rangraz, Anne-Kathrin Peters & Jan Gulliksen

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Rangraz, M., Peters, AK., Gulliksen, J. (2024). Understanding the Concept of Cognitive Disability. In: Bramwell-Dicks, A., Evans, A., Winckler, M., Petrie, H., Abdelnour-Nocera, J. (eds) Design for Equality and Justice. INTERACT 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14535. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61688-4_16

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