I would like to provide some feedback regarding your use of terminology about people with disability.

You indicated in your piece entitled Language and disabled people, (National Commission for Persons with a Disability, TMID, 14 February) that people with disabilities should be seen as people first.

I agree with this completely. You then use the term “disabled people”, which contradicts that premise. The preferred term is “people with disabilities”. When speaking or writing about those without disabilities in a comparative context, then the term is “people without disabilities”.

A person who has a disability cannot argue that they have one, but can argue that he or she is not disabled.

Don Rogers,

PH.D, CTRS

Associate Professor

Indiana State University