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Vivien Henshall, a long-term substitute special education teacher, works with Scarlett Rasmussen separately as other classmates listen to instructions from their teacher at Parkside Elementary School Wednesday, May 17, 2023, in Grants Pass, Ore.But neither term is offensive, and they are, in fact, good descriptions for people who need additional assistance. It is not offensive to acknowledge someone needs more help than another person.
Likewise, for the term “special needs.” This is an accurate description of someone who is physically or mentally disabled. They have “special needs.” They have the same amount of dignity and human worth as anyone, but they need extra help. The term is preferable to and has replaced terms such as “Mongoloid” and “retarded.” Notably, “differently abled” is also verboten, even though that was supposed to be a politically correct term.
Other suggestions are similarly nonsensical but perhaps a bit more humorous. We are told not to say “able-bodied” but instead “nondisabled.” But that implies that “disabled” people are not “able-bodied,” which then makes their disability purely a physical one and not a mental one. “The term ‘BIPOC’ is still considered by many to indicate a hierarchy among communities of color,” the guide states. “Scholars argue that the limitation of BIPOC is that it homogenizes communities of color together and a need exists to account for people’s unique racial, cultural, and intersectional identities.”
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