DISABILITIES

A person with a disability​

Disabled​

15% of the world's population has a disability.​

We shouldn't say: handicapped, cripple, special​

​Poor means of communication have always been a great handicap to the industries of the island. With her, money was neither an advantage nor a handicap.

(you can use handicap to mean disadvantage. Don't use it when you talk about people with a disability)​

​WHO only uses the term ‘persons with disabilities’ in the context of the convention. In WHO documents, we use people with disability.

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developmentally disabled

Parents of developmentally disabled children need more support.​

you can talk about an intellectual disability​

Don't say: mentally challenged, slow, retard​

hearing impaired

deaf (as an adjective)​

people who are deaf​

​He is hearing impaired.

Don't say: the deaf​

blind (as an adjective)

visially impaired​

My mother is visually impaired.​

You should say people who are blind​, instead of saying the blind

a learning disability

a student with a learning disability​

Don't say: slow, special​

Van Gogh had a psychiatric disability.​

people with autism, people with disabilities​

Don't say: mental, crazy, retard, insane, lunatic​