Directions: Write A Substitute Word Or Phrase That Communicates A More Positive Attitude Toward People

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. 

1. In what situations are you not sure of how to refer to people who have been oppressed?
2. How might we encourage others to use sensitive terminology?
3. What did you learn the most from the readings and from this assignment

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1. a special kid     a kid with a disability 
2. crippled
3. bum
4. the retarded
5. autistic people 
6. the blind
7. AIDS victim
8. the deaf
9. a CP.
10. those MD's
11. wheelchair-bound
12. dependent on crutches
13. suffers from MS
14. mental age of 3
15. confined to a wheelchair
16. stricken with epilepsy
17. borderline retarded
18. dummy
19. old fart
20. a nervous breakdown
21. a spinal-injured man
22. maniac
23. crazy
24. deaf
25. dumb
26. deaf-mute
27. handicapped person 
28. normal
29. able-bodied
30. a paraplegic
31. drug abuser
32. senile
33. the amputee
34. psycho
35. lunatic
36. moron
37. deformed person
38. a spina bifida child
39. the schizophrenic
40. a neurotic person