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People with disabilities

LC control no.sh 85058663
LC classificationHV1551 HV3024
Topical headingPeople with disabilities
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Variant(s)Cripples
Disabled
Disabled people
Disabled persons
Handicapped
Handicapped people
Individuals with disabilities
People with physical disabilities
Persons with disabilities
Physically challenged people
Physically disabled people
Physically handicapped
See alsoPersons
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Disabilities
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Sociology of disability
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Subject example tracingExample under Minorities
Found inUMI business vocab. (Handicapped, use Handicapped people; Disabled people, use Handicapped people)
American Heritage dict. (Under handicapped: "Although 'handicapped' is widely used in both law and everyday speech to refer to people having physical or mental disabilities those described by the word tend to prefer the expressions 'disabled' or 'people with disabilities.' Under Disabled: "The often-repeated recommendation to put the person before the disability would favor 'persons with disabilities' over 'disabled persons.')
Americans with Disabilites Act (individuals with disabilities; people with disabilities; persons with disabilities)
Illinois Attorney General, Manual of Style for Depicting People with Disabilities ("People with disabilities prefer to be called just that: people with disabilities.")
LC database, Sept. 10, 2001.
MESH (Disabled persons)
Invalid LCCNsh 85101577