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Memphis Center for Independent Living: Disability Etiquette
Guide to interacting with people with different disabilities.
http://www.mcil.org/mcil/mcil/etiqu01.htm
Pitfalls of Political Correctness: Euphemisms Excoriated
The National Federation of the Blind adopts a policy of opposing euphemisms for blindness.
http://www.blind.net/bpg00005.htm
Basic Etiquette: People with Disabilities
Guidelines from a Handout by United Cerebral Palsy (UCPA)/Access AmeriCorps.
http://www.etr.org/NSRC/rcv3n3/etiquette.h...
People-First Language: An Unholy Crusade
"I wonder if the proponents of people-first language believe that putting disabled people first on the printed page accomplishes anything in the real world? Does it alter attitudes, professional or otherwise, about disabilities?"
http://www.blind.net/bpg00006.htm
More General Disability Etiquette
To help you develop comfortable interactions with any person with a disability.
http://www.uni.edu/ada/pow0696.txt
Disability Etiquette Handbook
From the City of San Antonio, Texas.
http://www.sanantonio.gov/planning/disabil...
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