Language of Disability Need to eliminate barriers arising for inappropriate nomenclature.
{"Image DocumentName": "Language of Disability", "Image ImageDescription": "Need to eliminate barriers arising for inappropriate nomenclature. Language of Disability. One of the key ways in which people can be excluded is through language. Labels of difference, whether coated in professional jargon, or insults in the street, let people know they are not valued. It is important working in a human rights model to use language that values people and to be aware of our unconscious habits of labeling. People with disabilities prefer to be addressed as people with disabilities. The negative terms most frequently used to describe people with disability have been crippled, handicapped, less fortunate, the word, \u2018in valid\u2019 impaired, etc., As people have said that all these words accent our apartness, our dislocation from the common herd. At best they have \u2018special\u2019 needs and, for their own good, they have to be cared for by trained specialists and kept in segregated environments: at home, in special schools, in day care centers, in institutions.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}