People First Language and More
From: Disability is Natural!
By: Kathie Snow

Do the words used to describe you have an impact on your life? You bet!
Contrary to the age-old "sticks and stones" lesson we learned as children,
words do matter!

For too long, people who happen to have conditions we call "disabilities"
have been subjected to devaluation, marginalization, prejudice, and more. And
the first way to devalue someone is through language, by using words or
labels to identify a person/group as "less-than," as "the other," "not like
us," and so forth. Once a person/group has been identified this way, it makes
it easier to justify prejudice and discrimination. Our language shapes our
attitudes; our attitudes shape our language; they're intertwined. And our
attitudes and language drive our actions!

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People First Language article in The Special Edge - pages 11 - 14
http://www.calstat.org/publications/pdfs/2016-2017EDge_autumn_winter.pdf
http://www.sccoe.org/depts/students/inclusion-collaborative/Documents/Person-First_Language_Article.pdf