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People with Disabilities prefer you to describe the person, not the disability. It is polite to refer to an individual's disability only if it is relevant; avoid images that, unwittingly or consciously, evoke pity or guilt. "Wheelchair-bound" is one such popular yet misleading term, since a wheelchair is generally seen as liberating or enabling by its user or rider.
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BARRIER |
obstacle preventing a person with disability from living independently, working, traveling and/or having access to buildings, services, forms and information. (See also environmental barrier; compare access.) |
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BIRTH DETECT |
congenital condition. The term "birth defect", although still used by some medical professionals, is unacceptable to people with disabilities because of the negative connotations of the word "defect". Use instead a neutral term such as "congenital condition" or rephrase the sentence using words like"disabled since birth"or "born with" (See congenital condition defect.) |
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BLINDNESS |
total inability to see. adjective blind totally unable to see. Do not use "blind" as a class noun as in phrases such as "The blind are..." Use instead terms like "Blind people" if saving space, for example when writing for a newspaper, or preferably"People who are blind" or "People who are visually handicapped" The principle is that people should not be defined primarily or solely by their disability. (See also glaucoma, low vision, visual impairment; compare sighted.) |
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BORN WITH |
See discussion under birth defect |
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BRAILLE |
noun and verb system of printing/writing for people who are blind in which the characters are series of raised dots; to print or transcribe in Braille characters |
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BRITTLE BONE |
lay term for the condition of osteoporosis, which involves a reduction in bone mass and is most frequently diagnosed in postmenopausal women and elderly men. It often leads to disabling bone fractures. |
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