The ACB Framework
Morgan 2025
The ACB Framework is a lived-experience-driven, practitioner-informed conceptual model that challenges traditional, single-label approaches.
Instead of practitioner-defined categories, ACB centres self-defined, flexible, real-life barriers, enabling more accurate understanding and support.
The framework draws on:
• the Social Model of Disability
• intersectionality
• Samantha’s proposed concept Stimuli Goodness of Fit (Morgan, 2025) – understanding how sensory, cognitive, social and environmental stimuli support or obstruct someone’s ability to thrive.
Read the full ACB conceptual preprint on Figshare (Morgan, 2025)
The ACB Framework, PETALS concept, associated diagrams and Stimuli Goodness of Fit are licensed. Adaptation or training use requires written permission. Academic citation permitted.