FRAMEWORK - An Inclusive Language Guide
Overview: Language as Invitation, Not Performance
Language is not neutral. It shapes belonging, signals values, and either opens or closes space. In academic, creative, health, and social impact contexts, inclusive language is not about correctness; it’s about care. It affirms lived experience, honours access needs, and resists extractive or performative norms.
This guide reframes inclusive language as a relational, values-led practice. It is not a static list of terms, but a living toolkit for emotional clarity, systemic awareness, and ethical resonance. Whether you're writing, teaching, facilitating or publishing, this resource supports thoughtful communication that centres disabled, neurodivergent, and marginalised communities.
Each section includes:
- Conversational instructions and reflective scaffolding
- ☑ Tick boxes to affirm understanding and action
- Fill-in-the-blank sentences to personalise and deepen resonance
- Optional tables for structured thinking and shared agreements
- Prompts to explore empathy, accessibility and human-centred design
- Reflection opportunities to support emotional clarity and systemic awareness
This guide is designed to support both practical direction and philosophical depth. It invites you to treat language as a site of care, not control and to approach every word as a relational offering.
Contents
Section 1: Framing Language as Relational Practice
Section 2: Naming Harm, Honouring Repair
Section 3: Affirming Identity and Lived Experience
Section 4: Designing for Cognitive and Emotional Access
Section 5: Avoiding Extractive and Performative Language
Section 6: Embedding Consent and Choice in Communication
Section 7: Scaffolding Feedback and Revision with Care
Section 8: Closing Language as Ritual and Integration
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