Name: Mario Batusic Email: mario.batusic@jku.at Affiliation: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria Document: W2 Item Number: (none selected) Part of Item: Comment Type: general comment Summary of Issue: Use of \"disability\" instead of \"impairment\". Comment (Including rationale for any proposed change): The word \"disability\" stresses a \"dis\"-ability and is negative. I propose using \"impairment\" instead. An impairment is an objective concept based on some physical, psychological deseas/injury. So also \"cognitive difficulty\", \"learning difficulty\", ,\"speech difficulty\" is better as disability. The concept of \"disability\" stands for a misfortunate state of an impaired person, who lacks for some abilities due to additional limitations/barriers in his/her physical or social environment. Disability is exactly the state that we will overcome through the implementation of these Guidelines. Proposed Change: General use of \"impairment\" instead of \"disability\"; use of difficulty instead of disability in cases like: learning difficulties, cognitive difficulties etc.Received on Thursday, 31 January 2008 13:21:10 GMT
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