Questão 1118669

Text 2A7-II

Andrews et al. (2019) dissect the term disability, helping rehabilitation psychologists understand its historical roots and the importance of its current and widespread usage. The authors describe the difference between person-first language (e.g., person with a disability) and identity-first language (e.g., disabled person), with the latter explicitly centering disability as an important and positive aspect of identity similar in many ways to other important and positive aspects of identity such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or age.

The use of euphemisms (e.g., differently abled, special, or physically challenged) has the effect of not only patronizing and stigmatizing disability but actually erasing it both in terms of the full potential of disabled people to claim it as an aspect of identity and of ignoring the reality of ableism in the daily lives of disabled people. The authors conclude with a number of suggestions for rehabilitation psychologists to work for disability justice, including valuing the voices of people who are nonWhite and/or who hold multiple marginalized identities, speaking out to normalize the use of the word disability, and acting as allies in the fight against ableism.

Andrews et al. #SaytheWord: A disability culture commentary on the erasure of “disability”. In: Rehabilitation Psychology, v. 64, 2019, p. 111–118 (adapted).

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