Avoid emotive words such as afflicked, deformed, crippled, suffers from, defective, retarded and so on. Persons with disabilities can not speak for themselves. All people with disabilites are hearing impaired. All people who are hearing impaired or deaf can read lips or know sign language. People with disabilities are sick and unhappy.
Disabilities are contagious.
Prejudice, discrimination and attitudinal barriers are comprised of various aspects. They consist of an intermingling of social, emotional and cognitive ingredients. These special conditions include disability, race, religion, ethnicity,sex or educational background, to name only a few. Once these separations and distinctions are created, social inertia becomes sufficient to maintain them. Institutional supports, such as the media, can maintain and support these attitudes as well.