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Communication Group •Wireless Enabled Remote Co-presence (WERC)
Disability Resources• Mobility Tricycle Project.• Mali Water and
Disabilities Study • Macha Oxygen
Concentrator Project.
Education Group •Burkina Summer Enrichment Program at the Center for the Advancement of the Handicapped (CAH) in the village of Mahadaga,.
Language is a socially shared code
for representing concepts through
the use of arbitrary symbols and rule-
governed combinations of those symbols.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REkCB7ePEek&feature=related
and words can really hurt you!
The autistic personThe crippled kid
The disabled people
The lady who is wheelchair bound
He suffers from cerebral palsy
He’s in special education
Normal kids
• Focus on the person first, the disability last.
• When needed or required describe what the person HAS, not WHAT he/she IS.
• Remember that no one “suffers from,” or “is afflicted with” or is a “victim of” anything!
• Nor is anyone “wheelchair-bound.” There are people who USE wheelchairs...nothing else! People are not “bound” by their wheelchairs. Their wheelchairs allow them the freedom to go where they want to go!
• People with disabilities.• My son has autism.• She has Down
Syndrome.• He is a person with a
seizure disorder.• He uses a wheelchair.• She has short stature.• He has no speech.
• She has a learning disability.•He is a person who has….•She has an emotional disturbance.•He has quadriplegia, paraplegia, etc….•She receives Special Ed Services.•Accessible parking.•Typical instead of “normal”
• He is orthopedically impaired.
• The developmentally disabled girl.
• The autistic.• She’s wheelchair bound.• He suffers from cerebral
palsy.• Handicapped parking.• The mentally retarded.
• He has an orthopedic disability.
• She has a developmental disability
• The man who has autism.
• She uses a wheelchair.• He has cerebral palsy.• Accessible parking. • People with intellectual
disability.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHRYUf1crPk&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLD7433BAF2275F379
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLpwWUKm6KA&feature=related
General Rule of Thumb• Do not label !• If you must use People First
Language in your spoken and written language.