Rather than using terms such as disabled person, handicapped people, a crippled person, use terms such as people/persons with disabilities, a person with a disability, or a person with a visual impairment. ... Do not refer to a person with disability as a patient unless he/she is under medical care.
What is the appropriate way to describe a person who has a disability such as muscular dystrophy?
It is preferable to use neutral language when describing a person who has a disability, simply stating the facts about the nature of the disability. For example: "He has muscular dystrophy."
Who is the most successful disabled person?
- 1) Stephen Hawking. Stephen Hawking was one of the most well-known physicists in the world, and was diagnosed with ALS when he was 21. ...
- 2) FDR. ...
- 3) Ralph Braun. ...
- 4) John Hockenberry. ...
- 5) Marlee Matlin. ...
- 6) Stevie Wonder. ...
- 7) Frida Kahlo. ...
- 8) Helen Keller.
Who is the smartest disabled person?
physicist Stephen Hawking
What famous disabled people know?
- Frida Kahlo. She suffered polio during her childhood and, according to some sources, also had spina bifida, which caused dysmetria in her right leg. ...
- John Nash. ...
- Stephen Hawking. ...
- Nick Vujicic. ...
- Andrea Boccelli. ...
- Michael J. ...
- Alex Zanardi. ...
- Aaron Fotheringham.