What are some alternative methods to labeling people with disabilties?

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 26 Apr 2003 11:23 PDT

Could you give some more detail about what you need? The way your
question is phrased, it could have several meanings.

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Clarification of Question by jwgfarms-ga on 26 Apr 2003 17:04 PDT

In this world specialists use "labels" to diagnose people with a
disability... then this label follows them.. and we as normal citizens
call them retards... and other demeaning names because of what they
have been labeled

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 26 Apr 2003 19:22 PDT

Are you asking for polite ways in which to describe different kinds of
disabilities, such as "mentally challenged" instead of "retarded?"

There are areas of the world where "physically challenged" or
"mentally challenged" are interpreted as more derogatory than
"disabled".