The graphic that appeared on Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg’s Facebook page struck her as problematic in several ways. First, there was the text: “See the Person Not the Disability.” Why not see both the ...

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Family starts support group for Black parents of children with disabilities Sherron and Clovis Grant started the group to provide a space for discussion about the combined impacts of disability stigma ...

SINGAPORE – The Straits Times has updated the language it uses to describe disability, in an effort to portray persons with disabilities more sensitively and accurately. This comes after a review of ...

At a training the other day on the topic of homelessness, a participant stood up during the question-and-answer section and shared his perspective for the audience. "I appreciate you trying to be ...

Kenneth St. Louis grew up with a moderate stutter that he eventually got under control in college. His struggle with stuttering led to an interest in speech-language pathology, which he now teaches at ...

Autism and mental health are complex subjects. Here are some guidelines we use when choosing how to write about them. Person first? Identity first? It depends. When we’re writing about a person’s ...

With the Pan Am and Parapan Am games coming to Southern Ontario it is a great opportunity for us all to show our inclusive Canadian spirit in welcoming individuals with all kinds of abilities to our ...

We work to put the same care into the accessibility and inclusivity of our communications as we do with our event programming itself. Here are some of the things we consider. We ask ourselves: who are ...

Explore person-first language and its implications; does it truly reduce stigma or create new issues around identity? "There’s a reason Ernest Hemingway didn’t call his novel The Person Who Was Male ...