People with disabilities constitute our nation’s largest minority group. It’s also the most inclusive: all ages, genders, religions, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic levels are represented.

Yet the only thing people with disabilities have in common is being on the receiving end of societal misunderstanding, prejudice, and discrimination. And this larges minority group is the only one that anyone can join, at and time: at birth, in the split second of an accident, through illness, or during the aging process. If and when it happens to you, how will you want to be described?

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” -Mark Twain

Words Matter! Old and inaccurate descriptors perpetuate negative stereotype and reinforce…[more]

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