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The following is a list of terms, used to describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first ...
Households with Disability by Disability Type, 2011 [3] Household Total Percentage Household Surveyed 4,446,649 100% Household with PWDs 302,421 6.77% Household with Hearing Loss 27,972 0.63% Household with Vision Impairment 53,034 1.19% Household with Speech Disability/Communication Disorder 28,259 0.63% Household with Orthopedic Disaboloty 41,551
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Pages in category "Pejorative terms for people with disabilities" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
People-first language puts the person before the diagnosis and describes what the person has, not what the person is. [2] The basic idea is to use a sentence structure that names the person first and the condition second, for example, "people with disabilities" rather than "disabled people" or "disabled," to emphasize that they are people first.
Disability columnist Adria Nassim discusses the challenges she might face if she feel in love and wanted to get married. Nassim: 'I do': Two little words with big consequences for people with ...
The activity coincides with the Philippine celebration of National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week (July 19–23, 2007). May 12, 2008 – After six years of deliberation and almost a year after its signing, the Philippines became the 23rd country that ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Filipino people. It includes Filipino people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disabled people from the Philippines .