Emma,
I really like your usage and it is pretty much
what I use. However, I am aware, as you learned,
that outside the academy and some organized
groups, words are used differently and "code switching" is necessary.
Devva
t 03:11 AM 7/20/2009, Emma Rowlett wrote:
>I've been reading a lot of literature about terms to use as I needed
>to back up the ones I wanted to use in my thesis. I use 'disabled
>people' and 'non-disabled people' and sometimes describe people as
>being diagnosed or self-defining as having an impairment in contrast
>to people who have not been diagnosed or do not self-define as having
>an impairment. Similar I might describe someone as self-defining as a
>disabled person or a person with an impairment or not self-defining as
>a disabled person or a person with an impairment. I guess this is
>because I feel that I have impairments and because of how society is
>structured this makes me a disabled person. My impairments are
>diagnosed but even before some of these were confirmed I self-defined
>as a person with impairments. This is how I understand the social
>model of disability but I may well be wrong. Personally I describe
>myself as a disabled person, because I have a hearing impairment, a
>visual impairment and mobility impairments.
>
>However, when I did my interviews people used wide ranging terms, even
>when describing themselves and they all had reasons for using these. I
>did come across some disabled people who preferred to call themselves
>a person with a disability or an impairment, but others who called
>themselves an impaired or disabled person. I came across visually
>impaired people (the term I prefer) who used terms like 'the blind' or
>'the disabled', I came across others who talked about having a 'sight
>disability' or a 'visual impairment'. In term of those with SpLDs
>some defined this as a specific learning disability or difficulty or
>difference.
>
>This isn't to say that some terms aren't generally more acceptable
>than others, but it is difficult to find terms that everyone agrees
>with. For example, in the UK the term handicapped is usually avoided,
>but it is widespread in America. If anyone has a suggestions or
>literature about this, I'd be interested and I'm sure others would
>find it useful.
>
>Yours,
>
>Emma
>
>On 20/07/2009, dawnalee8 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > I've never been a fan of the term "able-bodied" because then what do you
> > call people that are not "able-bodied"?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dawna Lee Rumball, PhD Student
> > University of British Columbia, Vancouver
> > Canada
> >
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