5. Use neutral language.
Do not use language that portrays the person as passive or suggests a lack of something: victim, invalid, defective.
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Use |
Don’t Use |
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Person who has had a stroke |
Stroke victim |
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Congenital disability |
Birth defect |
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Person with epilepsy |
Person afflicted with epilepsy, epileptic |
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Person with a brain injury |
Brain damaged, brain injury sufferer |
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Burn survivor |
Burn victim |
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