Reclaiming Language Introduction

Language belongs to all of us, and it can be challenged and changed. The Reclaiming Language Project is part of a larger VP-Net project that looks at the way language affects people with disabilities and their access to palliative care.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• language
• disability
• words
• vp-net

[janaleemw]

[end of Ruth's post] Let everyone in this world emphasis on a barrier free environment that can really affect us from joining different development, they will come to be contented that we are never vulnerable group but we are like them, and together with them and in a barrier free society we can brigng in serious development. Many of our families now relly on us plus the societies just because we have our abilities. let them first look at us as persons first then disability later.

[janaleemw]

This is a comment sent to me by Ruth Nabasirye in Uganda, re-posted with her permission:

...i believe language can be changed. Persons with Disabilities are not vulnerable simply because we are also human beings who deserve our rights as any other person in this world. We are just created differently that we have disabilities and others not but we are all equal and humans...

[JimDerksen]

At end of life, life-sustaining treatment innovation and technologies such as intravenous hydration, intravenous (or “tube feeding) nutrition, and respiratory support in healthcare may be negatively termed “artificial” as contrasted to “natural,” and used in policy to assess quality of life and decide whether we withdraw or with-hold treatment Some persons with disabilities will assert that finding ways to survive using machines and technology is as natural to our species as flight is to a bird.