Directions: Write a substitute word or phrase that communicates a more positive attitude toward people who have been oppressed. Place the negative terms, your new positive terms, and answers to the follow-up questions in the Learning Activity. I did #1 as an example for you to see.
- In what situations are you not sure of how to refer to people who have been oppressed?
- How might we encourage others to use sensitive terminology?
- What did you learn the most from the readings and from this assignment
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- a special kid a kid with a disability
- crippled
- bum
- the retarded
- autistic people
- the blind
- AIDS victim
- the deaf
- a CP.
- those MD's
- wheelchair-bound
- dependent on crutches
- suffers from MS
- mental age of 3
- confined to a wheelchair
- stricken with epilepsy
- borderline retarded
- dummy
- old fart
- a nervous breakdown
- a spinal-injured man
- maniac
- crazy
- deaf
- dumb
- deaf-mute
- handicapped person
- normal
- able-bodied
- a paraplegic
- drug abuser
- senile
- the amputee
- psycho
- lunatic
- moron
- deformed person
- a spina bifida child
- the schizophrenic
- a neurotic person