Revise the following sentences to adhere to the people-first language and the other guidelines
given in this Module.
1. The teacher thought of many strategies to teach the mentally challenged.
Answer:
The teacher thought of many strategies to teach those with a cognitive disability diagnosis.
2. Their brother is mentally retarded.
Answer:
Their brother has a developmental disability.
He has a cognitive disability/diagnosis.
3. Their organization is for autistic.
Answer:
Their organization are for those who has autism.
4. He is a polio victim who currently suffers from post-polio syndrome.
Answer:
He has a post-polio syndrome.
5. There was a blind girl in my psychology class.
Answer:
There was a girl who is visually impaired in my class.
Revise the following sentences to adhere to the people-first language and the other guidelines
given in this Module.
a. I attended a seminar about teaching disabled children.
Answer:
I attended a seminar about teaching children with learning disability.
b. That classroom was designed for the deaf and blind.
Answer
That classroom was designed for those who are deaf and blind.
c. I like to read books about the handicapped.
Answer:
I like to read books about those with disabilities/handicapped.
d. When she was suffering from a spinal cord injury, in a car accident, she became a paraplegic
and was confined to a wheelchair.
Answer:
After she had a spinal cord injury, she uses a wheelchair.
e. He is behaving like that because he is abnormal.
Answer:
He is behaving like that because he has disability.