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Disability. The following is a list of terms, used to describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [ 1]
Neurology, psychiatry. In human development, muteness or mutism (from Latin mutus 'silent') is defined as an absence of speech, with or without an ability to hear the speech of others. [ 1] Mutism is typically understood as a person's inability to speak, and commonly observed by their family members, caregivers, teachers, doctors or speech and ...
Deaf-mute is a term which was used historically to identify a person who was either deaf and used sign language or both deaf and could not speak.The term continues to be used to refer to deaf people who cannot speak an oral language or have some degree of speaking ability, but choose not to speak because of the negative or unwanted attention atypical voices sometimes attract.
Handicap shouldn't be on this list either. I can understand terms like retard, cripple, midget, and Mongoloid being on this list, there is legitimate controversy surrounding those terms being used and to a certain extent they are somewhat offensive. But for the most part, a word can only become offensive if you allow it to be.
Deaf-mute is a literal translation of the French sourd-muet which was already in use in France in the 19th century, in the works of the founder of the deaf school in Paris, as well as in the name of the school, the Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets à Paris. Since some Deaf people can also speak, the term deaf-mute is not accurate.
Ward3001 claims that deaf-mute is a pejorative yet provides, a term used to denote disdain on the part of the speaker onto the subject, but there has been no evidence that deaf-mute has been used a pejorative only that the Deaf perceive it as such (conflating deaf-mute and deaf-dumb doesn't suffice as the pairing is archaic and the word dumb is ...
In one message, Proctor used an offensive term for developmentally disabled people while describing Read and told other troopers that he hadn’t found any nude photos of Read while searching her ...
Lists of pejorative terms for people. Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity. List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names. List of religious slurs. A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs. List of age-related terms with negative connotations.