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Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3]
And the family as a whole and other non-disabled members of the family should also be taken into account when the assistant is offered. [2] Respect privacy. Not all parents with disabilities want their children or other family members to participate in the discussion about their disability when support is offered. [2]
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
The situation can create a crisis for families as they scramble to find in-home or long-term care for two or three disabled family members. Many are turning to advocates and attorneys to better ...
When Texas started scrubbing people from Medicaid after a three-year pause on removals during the pandemic, one family lost the insurance coverage that helped provide all treatments for their ...
The youngster comes from a rural family in Anhui province in eastern China and has limited mobility due to cerebral palsy, believed to have emerged due to oxygen deprivation at birth, according to ...
Jay Timothy Dolmage is a Canadian academic in the fields of rhetoric, composition, disability studies, and critical pedagogy. As of 2025, he is the Chair of English at the University of Waterloo . He is also the founding editor of Canadian Journal of Disability Studies.
Models of disability are analytic tools in disability studies used to articulate different ways disability is conceptualized by individuals and society broadly. [1] [2] Disability models are useful for understanding disagreements over disability policy, [2] teaching people about ableism, [3] providing disability-responsive health care, [3] and articulating the life experiences of disabled people.