Showing posts with label person first language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label person first language. Show all posts

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Person First Language and Dehumanization

If you're not familiar with person first language, it is basically an attempt to speak with a grammatical structure that literally puts the person first. I was first introduced to the idea by a professor of special education in college, so I'm going to give you examples related to that topic. Non-person-first language: autistic child, blind man, downs kids. Person-first language: child with autism, man who is blind, kids who have down syndrome.

What's the difference?