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Disability Awareness: Disability Language Guide (2)

Words such as cripple, dumb, afflicted, defective, patient, victim and invalid were commonly used to describe someone with a disability.

We as a society, are starting to recognize that people with disabilities are people first. We are our country’s mothers, fathers, students, teachers, bosses, lawyers, doctors, children and so on. In addition, the myths associated with disability are being regularly dispelled.

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