In our vocabulary, there are many words that can be offensive when describing people with disabilities, such as retarded and handicapped.\u00a0 Even statements that are made can just as hurtful and damaging such as \u201cdeaf and dumb,\u201d These types of statements can lead to stereotyping, misperceptions and discrimination.\u00a0 It can lead to feelings of anger and belittlement.\u00a0 These feelings can lead to low self-esteem, discouragement and in some cases, depression.<\/p>\n
We as a society must remember how powerful the spoken word carries in our language.\u00a0 We must consider others\u2019 feelings and not to judge them on the basis of their disability.\u00a0 The key lesson is to put the person first rather than their disability.\u00a0 Since the disability is a characteristic that is a part of them and that they have many more qualities that outweigh their disabilities.\u00a0 We must remember Martin Luther Kings words of judging people by character rather than color of one\u2019s skin, which is analogous to judging a person on the basis of their disability<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In our vocabulary, there are many words that can be offensive when describing people with disabilities, such as retarded and handicapped.\u00a0 Even statements that are made can just as hurtful and damaging such as \u201cdeaf and dumb,\u201d These types of statements can lead to stereotyping, misperceptions and discrimination.\u00a0 It can lead to feelings of anger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}