Disability naming and wording, what to use and what not to.

 

Person-First	Identity-First	Not Recommended
A person with a disability	disabled person	the disabled, cripple, victim, spastic, spaz, handicapped, the handicapped, abnormal, dumb/deaf-mute, defect, defective, midget, or vegetable
A person with an intellectual disability	intellectually disabled person	mental handicap, mentally retarded, or mentally handicapped
person with a mental health disability	mentally disabled person	mad, crazy, schizo, schizophrenic, insane, nuts, psycho, psychotic, demented, senile, loony, or lunatic
A person who uses a wheelchair	wheelchair user	wheelchair-bound or confined to a wheelchair
has… (diagnosis)	adjective form of diagnosis (i.e. ‘autistic’) person	suffers from… afflicted with… stricken with… or victim of…
A person without a disability	not disabled or non-disabled	normal