Rewrite each of the following sentences using the guidelines presented including people-first language.

  Language for Speaking and Writing about People with

Disabilities

Her daughter has autism.

 1.Her daughter is autistic.

The ARC helps people with cognitive disabilities.

2. The ARC is an organization that helps the mentally retarded.

I took a class about children with learning disabilities.

3. I took a class about learning disabled children.

A learning disabilities teacher as many opportunities to help people with cognitive impairments.

4. A learning disabilities teacher as many opportunities to help mentally challenged.

I donate money to organizations that help people with disabilities.

5. I donate money to organizations that help the handicapped.

He had a spinal cord injury, he uses a wheelchair.

6. After suffering a spinal cord injury, he became a paraplegic and was confined to a wheelchair.

He had polio when he was younger, and now has post-polio syndrome.

7. He is a polio victim who currently suffers from post-polio syndrome.

He has a congenital disability.

8. He was crippled from birth.