People with disabilities or individuals who use wheelchairs places people first. Use respectful and descriptive words. Afflicted is a negative term suggesting hopelessness. Confined to a wheelchair. People are not imprisoned in wheelchairs.
Individuals use wheelchairs to move about.
Crippled implies someone who is pitiful and unable to do anything. Deaf and dumb and deaf-mute are outdated terms once used to describe people who could neither hear nor speak. Many people who are deaf or hard of hearing can speak, and many people with speech impairments can hear. Gimp once used to refer to someone who walked with a limp, is outdated and derogatory. Poor describes a lack of money or someone to be pitied.