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The Disabled or Disabled people May be offensive to some, [1] [17] [22] who may prefer "person with a disability" or "people with health conditions or impairments". [7] However, many people prefer "disabled person" or "disabled people", in part due to the social model of disability. [27] [28] [29] Disorder [30] Dotard [31] Downie: Used of ...
Recommendations and explanations to use person-first language date back as early as around 1960. In her classic textbook, [3] Beatrice Wright (1960)[3a] began her rationale for avoiding the dangers of terminological short cuts like "disabled person" by citing studies from the field of semantics that "show that language is not merely an instrument for voicing ideas but that it also plays a role ...
Disability etiquette is a set of guidelines dealing specifically with how to approach a person with a disability.. There is no consensus on when this phrase first came into use, although it most likely grew out of the Disability Rights Movement that began in the early 1970s.
The Senate majority leader used the word “retarded” when talking about the challenge of overcoming community resistance to certain housing initiatives.
They trace developments ranging from telecommunications to assistive technologies to offer a technoscience of disability, which offers a global perspective on how disabled people are represented as users, consumers, viewers, or listeners of new media, by policymakers, corporations, programmers, and disabled people themselves.
Reasoning: because the vast majority of disabled people reject the model of disability that led to the use of the phrase 'person with a disability' and this is a term created by and primarily used by non-disabled people who feel that there needs to be a separation between 'person' and 'disability', when in fact the majority of disabled people ...
The Declaration makes thirteen distinct proclamations: Definition of the term "disabled person" as "any person unable to ensure by himself or herself, wholly or partly, the necessities of a normal individual and/or social life, as a result of deficiency, either congenital or not, in his or her physical or mental capabilities".
Government reports began from the 1970s to reflect this changing view of disability (Wolfensberger uses the term devalued people), e.g. the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board report of 1981 made recommendations on "the rights of people with intellectual handicaps to receive appropriate services, to assert their rights to independent living so far as ...