Please sign this

[Deb12]

Mods,
I posted this to try to help kids, not to start trouble. Some people have nothing better to do than give others a hard time. So since congress voted on this issue today, would you please remove it.
thanks
Debbie
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Handicapped Children are very near and dear to my heart, please sign this petition and help spread the word.
Thank you!

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[Jennifer M.]

I work for a non for profit organization that deals with persons with disabilities and the one thing we tell all our employees is that it is a big no no is to use the word "handicapped" when referring to someone with a disability, they are disabled.

I admire your thoughtfulness, just please use correct terminology

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[Deb12]

I too work for a non-profit organization. Easter Seals of NC. And excuse me I stand corrected. But don't you have anything better to do that correct people? Are you 100% politically correct?
Have a good day.

[Jennifer M.]

I was just making a statement, there is no need to be so defensive As a person who has a disability, I find certain words extremely insensitive and "handicapped" is one of them.

[tlspiegel]

Well I must join in here. I am not offended by the word handicap and actually prefer that. My eyesight has been extremely poor since birth, and I refer to that as my handicap.

[Jennifer M.]

They way I look at it is this...I am a person with a disability...my handicaps from the disability are the things I cannot do like run, ride a bike, etc.

I would refer to Toby Lee as visually impaired not handicapped

[tlspiegel]

OK... Jennifer M - you're right and I'm wrong!

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
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handicapped

SYLLABICATION: hand·i·capped
PRONUNCIATION: hnd-kpt
ADJECTIVE: Physically or mentally disabled: a pool equipped for handicapped swimmers.
NOUN: (used with a pl. verb) People who have a physical or mental disability considered as a group. Often used with the.
USAGE NOTE: Although handicapped is widely used in both law and everyday speech to refer to people having physical or mental disabilities, those described by the word tend to prefer the expressions disabled or people with disabilities. Handicapped, a somewhat euphemistic term, may imply a helplessness that is not suggested by the more forthright disabled. It is also felt that some stigma may attach to the word handicapped because of its origin in the phrase hand in cap, actually derived from a game of chance but sometimes mistakenly believed to involve the image of a beggar. The word handicapped is best reserved to describe a disabled person who is unable to function owing to some property of the environment. Thus people with a physical disability requiring a wheelchair may or may not be handicapped, depending on whether wheelchair ramps are made available to them. See Usage Note at disabled.

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disabled

SYLLABICATION: dis·a·bled
PRONUNCIATION: ds-bld
ADJECTIVE: 1. Inoperative: a disabled vehicle. 2. Impaired, as in physical functioning: a disabled veteran; disabled children.
NOUN: (used with a pl. verb) Physically impaired people considered as a group: the physically disabled.
USAGE NOTE: Disabled is the clear preference in contemporary American English in referring to people having either physical or mental impairments, with the impairments themselves preferably termed disabilities. Handicapped—a term derived from the world of sports gambling—is still in wide use but is sometimes taken to be offensive, while more recent coinages such as differently abled or handicapable have been generally perceived as condescending euphemisms and have gained little currency. •The often-repeated recommendation to put the person before the disability would favor persons with disabilities over disabled persons and person with paraplegia over paraplegic. Such expressions are said to focus on the individual rather than on the particular functional limitation. Respect for the preferences of this group calls for observing this rule, especially in formal contexts, but the “person-first” construction has not found wide acceptance with the general public, perhaps because it sounds somewhat unnatural or possibly because in English the last word in a phrase tends to have the greatest weight, thus undercutting the intended purpose. See Usage Note at handicapped.


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[Deb12]

I think the word "disabled" sounds worse than "handicapped" and will continue using it.

[jskarp]

The real point here is......that no person is a "handicapped person" or a "disabled person"............they are just a person with a disability or a handicap.

[teraberry]

My husband has muscular dystrophy and he calls himself "handicapped".

Another thought... I've never heard of the special parking spaces called "disabled spaces"... we always call them "handicapped spaces". In any case, my DH wouldn't care which he was called at all, but he happens to use handicapped.

I don't think anyone is insensitive to use that term.

[tlspiegel]

I'm certainly not. In fact, I was talking to one of my colleagues and they referred to themself as handicapped. I don't know what the big deal is. The thread posted wasn't about semantics. It was about signing a petition.

[NaomiMarie]

<sigh>

[tlspiegel]

Yeah... what's up with that? sigh... sigh... moan!

[luvmetender]

Ok, the big deal is that the word "Handicapped" is not the preferred word to use. Can we all just leave it at that and sign the petition??

[NaomiMarie]

Originally posted by luvmetender
Ok, the big deal is that the word "Handicapped" is not the preferred word to use. Can we all just leave it at that and sign the petition??

Already did, so there