| person with a disability / has a disability/
people with disabilities / have disabilities/ disabled person/people (less
preferred) |
the disabled / the handicapped/ invalids, patients,
crippled, deformed, defective |
| person without disabilities/ typical person/
non-disabled person (less-preferred) |
normal, healthy, able-bodied |
| wheelchair user / uses a wheelchair |
wheelchair-bound |
| congenital disability / birth anomaly |
birth defect / affliction |
| has cerebral palsey or other condition |
a victim of cerebral palsey |
| has had polio / experienced polio/ has a disability
as a result of polio |
suffers from polio/ afflicted with polio |
| people who have mental retardation (MR)/ person
with mental retardation/ mentally retarded person (less preferred) |
the mentally retarded / deficient/ a retardate
/ a retard (NEVER)/ a feeble-minded person |
| child with a developmental delay (DD)/ person
with developmental disability |
| person with Down Syndrome |
the Down's person/ Mongoloid (NEVER) |
| person who has epilepsy/ people with seizure
disorders/ seizure / epileptic episode or event |
the epileptic/ the epileptics/ fits / epileptic
fits |
| people who have mental illness/ people with a
mental or emotional disorder |
the mentally ill/ crazy, psycho, mental case |
| people who are blind / visually impaired/ person
who is deaf / hearing impaired |
the blind, blind as a bat/ the deaf / the hard
of hearing/ deaf-mute / deaf and dumb |
| speech or communication delay |
tongued tied |
