Disability as a word has a latin root common to all our European and and
overseas variant languages and that root is one that negates ability, it is
from the verb to be able and implies that there is an act of disablement.
Disability in itself came about as euphemism in some sense for cripple,
which has Germanic roots, however there is the same sense hinted at but with
more physicality than the wider and legalistic concept of disabling.
Larry
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> Dear List Members,
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>
> I dont mean to talk about what i do not know, but i conducted a
> master of science dissrtation in Brazil regarding accessibility to public
> transport, first i had to understand the deep meaning of disability and
its
> perspectives and i get in touch with the terminology of the disability, in
> Brazil legislation uses a word "pessoas portadoras de deficiência" that
> means somehow "carries of disabilities" some top researchers told me the
> disgace of the name when papers went to Europe or US and nobody understood
> what was the meaning, nowadays the new legislation and accessibility
> standards (Federal Act 10048/04 and 10098/04), (NBR 9050 and so on) use
the
> terminology people with disability (pessoas com deficiência).
>
> I went to many lectures and workshops to get some insights of it
> resenpretativiness of te terminology, some fellows told me that was a
waste
> of time, as i was studing disability in a transport engineering
perspective,
> anyway it gave an insight of the complexity of the subject and what it
means
> behing the meaning of it. I dont know the right answer for it, if it is
one,
> but i used the terminology (people with disabilities - pessoas com
> deficiência) in my research and having a awareness to not use disability
> carries and so on. I dont know if you guys know, but theres is a well
knowed
> researcher in Brazil named Sassaki that wrote a paper about the problems
> with the terminology of disability.
>
> Hope it shows that the problems go beyoung UK x USA.
>
>
> regards
>
>
> Vital Amílcar
>
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