Communicating with and about people with disabilities

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Description:
  About 1 in 4, or 61 million, U.S. adults reports having some form of a disability. Disability is part of the human experience, but sometimes people use words or phrases that are insensitive and do not promote understanding, dignity, and respect for people with disabilities. Most often than not, this is not intentional, but is disrespectful just the same.
  
  People-first language is used to communicate appropriately and respectfully with and about an individual with a disability. People-first language emphasizes the person first, not the disability. For example, when referring to a person with a disability, refer to the person first, by using phrases such as, “a person who ...”, “a person with ...” or, “person who has ...”
  
  For more resources on disability inclusion, visit: www.cdc.gov/disabilities
  
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  communicating-with-people.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Communication Disabled Persons Language Social Stigma
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:7616d85a3aea5323b9d623a66c240c553790b850eed1048f3d9b9e00f18a4af0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/107303/cdc_107303_DS1.pdf
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