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The following is a list of terms, used to describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. 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 ...
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.
Much like today's socially acceptable terms idiot and moron, which are also defined as some sort of mental disability, when the term retard is being used in its pejorative form, it is usually not being directed at people with mental disabilities. Instead, people use the term when teasing their friends or as a general insult. [12]
Disabled people often develop adaptations which can be personal (e.g. strategies to suppress tics in public) or community (e.g. sign language in d/Deaf communities). As the personal computer has become more ubiquitous, various organizations have formed to develop software and hardware to make computers more accessible for disabled people.
When well-meaning parents tell their children not to stare at disabled people, or usher them away from wheelchair users or guide dogs, that instills a lesson that disability is something scary or bad.
Many Disabled people are forced to create their own businesses because traditional employment is inaccessible—that’s what I did, frustrated by my own struggles and the lack of disability ...
The above looks good, except I wonder if the word "correct" is too proscriptive. "Accepted" or something like that might be a better way of putting it. For wheelchair-bound, "A person or people with a disability" seems to be accepted, likewise for slow/retard " He is intellectually and developmentally disabled"
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