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Appropriate Terms for Medical Disabilities/Health Conditions
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Out-dated langage: Victim, Someone “stricken with” a disability (i.e. “someone stricken with cancer” or “an AIDS victim”
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Respectful language: Survivor, Someone “living with” a specific disability (i.e. “someone living with cancer or AIDS”)
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Disability Studies
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Identity-First Language
Person-First Language
Rosas Law (Pub. L. 111-256)
Educational model of demeaning disability-friendly terminology
Medical model of demeaning disability-friendly terminology
Appropriate Terms for Blind or Visually Impairment
Appropriate Terms for Deaf or Hearing Impairment
Appropriate Terms for Speech/Communication Disability
Appropriate Terms for Learning Disability
Appropriate Terms for Mental Health Disability
Appropriate Terms for Mobility/Physical Disability
Appropriate Terms for Cognitive Disability
Appropriate Terms for Short Stature, Dwarfism
Appropriate Terms for Medical Disabilities/Health Conditions
Role of Psychologists in using disability language
Person First Language
Identity First Language
Person First and Identity First Language for Autistic Individuals/Individuals with Autism
Summary of #SaytheWord: A Disability Culture Commentary on the Erasure of “Disability”