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Basic Etiquette: People with Disabilities - Guidelines from a Handout by United Cerebral Palsy (UCPA)/Access AmeriCorps.
www.etr.org/NSRC/rcv3n3/etiquette.html
Disability Etiquette - Etiquette information about disabilities and relationships.
inlove.org/etiquette.htm
Disability Etiquette Handbook - From the City of San Antonio, Texas.
www.sanantonio.gov/planning/disability_handbook/disability_handbook.asp
Memphis Center for Independent Living: Disability Etiquette - Guide to interacting with people with different disabilities.
www.mcil.org/mcil/mcil/etiqu01.htm
More General Disability Etiquette - To help you develop comfortable interactions with any person with a disability.
www.uni.edu/ada/pow0696.txt
People First Language - Seeks to put the person first and the disability second.
www.modmh.state.mo.us/sikeston/people.htm
People-First Language: An Unholy Crusade - "I wonder if the proponents of people-first language believe that putting disabled people first on the printed page accomplishes anything in the real world? Does it alter attitudes, professional or otherwise, about disabilities?"
www.blind.net/bpg00006.htm
Pitfalls of Political Correctness: Euphemisms Excoriated - The National Federation of the Blind adopts a policy of opposing euphemisms for blindness.
www.blind.net/bpg00005.htm