> Dear list members,
>
> I've been following the 'disability language' thread with interest. There's a
> related problem I've been struggling with for a while now, and I wonder if list
> members can help. I work as a learning support teacher in a comprehensive school for
> young people aged 11-16. Some of the students I support identify as 'disabled' -
> primarily those who have intellectual impairments and those who identify as autistic.
> But most of the students I work with don't claim such identities.
Hi all
Its really difficult to come up with a title that would aim to represent the
children when there is the need to use a collective term. I guess the
quandry is that such a name would be useless unless the children owned
it. The other problem of course is having other people be respectful
enough to call people by their preferred name. I assume also that
whatever name is used, it will still denote (or is it conote?) whatever image
other people ascribe to the kids. If "a rose is just as sweet....", then a
"gifted in other ways" child will still stink. Excuse that choice of words but
you see what I am getting at?
By the way...Has anyone seen the episode of "South Park" where the
school nurse has a co-joined twin attached to her face? The community
rally and have a co-joined twin myslexia (I think that was the term)
awareness week. If anyone saw it, what did you think?
Best regards
Laurence Bathurst
School of Occupation and Leisure Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Sydney
P.O. Box 170
Lidcombe NSW 2141
Australia
Phone: (62 1) 9351 9509
Fax: (62 1) 9351 9166
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Please visit the School's interim web site at
http://www.ot.cchs.usyd.edu.au
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