[nabs-l] Disability Language

Sun Jul 26 20:00:11 UTC 2015

Oh my God! a culture boasting values like 
cultural cohesion and  group feeling? From what 
I've heard, deaf people know about sustaining 
those cultural strands. Good on them! Could blind 
F.U.X., too,  imagine such a solidarity?
Carlandsca aalso  11:18 AM 7/25/2015, Caitlin Best via nabs-l wrote:
>I work for the army and the equal opportunity 
>office for roughly 5 years, so I had a great 
>deal of death employees come into my office. 
>Most deaf people are very proud of their culture 
>and their community and you don't even consider 
>themselves to have a disability. They do 
>preferred to use a D  a D to describe 
>themselves. Also, using heaaring impairment is 
>very disrespectful. Most preferred to use hard 
>of hearing or simply death because that is how 
>they see themselves. As for other disability 
>language, I would just rolled with whatever the 
>person or people are comfortable with. Sent from 
>my iPhone > On Jul 25, 2015, at 13:50, Karl 
>Martin Adam via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> 
>wrote: > > Justin, the idea that you know better 
>what someone should be called than they do 
>themselves seems awfully patronizing.  Isn't 
>that sort of idea that others know how we should 
>live our lives better than we do a large part of 
>what we in the NFB and other disability rights 
>organizations spend our time fighting.  Also I 
>happen to know that there are a lot of deaf 
>people who consider themselves Deaf with a 
>capital d and are very proud of their 
>culture.  Calling them "persons with hearing 
>impairments" or something similar is extremely 
>disrespectful. > > ----- Original Message 
>----- > From: justin williams via nabs-l 
><nabs-l at nfbnet.org > To: "'National Association 
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><nabs-l at nfbnet.org > Date sent: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 
>13:04:08 -0400 > Subject: Re: [nabs-l] 
>Disability Language > > While operating in the 
>field, I am careful to set the best example for 
>my > consumer. Often times, consumers use names 
>such as physically disabled, or > deaf, or 
>something such as that.  They use the 
>terminology given to them by > those who while 
>well meaning, are not in touch with the day to 
>day maneusha > which goes along with having a 
>disability.  I am careful to usualy stay in > 
>the professional guidelines unless doing so will 
>cause undo stress.  I've > noticed that when I 
>use person first language, the consumer becomes 
>more > empowered and is more inclined to take 
>control of their life. > > -----Original 
>Message----- > From: nabs-l 
>[mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
>Arielle > Silverman via nabs-l > Sent: Saturday, 
>July 25, 2015 12:57 AM > To: National 
>Association of Blind Students mailing list 
><nabs-l at nfbnet.org > Cc: Arielle Silverman 
><arielle71 at gmail.com > Subject: [nabs-l] 
>Disability Language > > Hi Kaiti and all. I read 
>an article recently about disability language 
>which > was published in the journal American 
>Psychologist and authored by Dana > Dunn, a 
>prominent disability psychologist. Basically, 
>the article described > how language preferences 
>are changing. As others have pointed out, there 
>is > a lot of debate about whether to use 
>person-first ("person who is blind") or > 
>identity-first ("blind person"). What Dr. Dunn 
>recommends is that clinicians > should simply 
>ask clients what term they prefer and use those 
>terms > (honoring different clients with 
>different terms, if necessary). So you > would 
>not automatically need to call your client a 
>person with a disability > unless he/she 
>explicitly prefers that language. I have noticed 
>that the vast > majority of people I 
>meet/exchange emails with who have autism want 
>to be > called "autistic people" and the only 
>people I know who use the term "people > with 
>autism" are non-autistic people. So, I regularly 
>use the term "autistic > person" because that 
>seems to be the majority preference for those 
>who are > actually part of that group. If a 
>particular autistic person or family > objects, 
>then I will switch to their term of choice. I 
>also use the term > "blind person" to describe 
>myself and others in the blindness community. > 
>When I talk to parents of blind children, I try 
>to listen to their terms and > follow their 
>language (even if it's "visually impaired"). I 
>think honoring > language and building common 
>language is a part of building rapport and > 
>trust with others. > Arielle > > 
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