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From: John Foliot
Date: Nov 8, 2006 10:20PM

Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> Additionally, if I may, evolving works generated by the United Nations
> Ad Hoc Committee (full name provided below) (4) would help guide those
> looking for the most *respectful* ways to address
> disability terminology in your own reference materials..
>
> (4) U.N. Enable, Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral
> International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights
> and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities
> http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/enable/rights/adhoccom.htm

Cindy,

While your offer of information and references is most appreciated, the link
above to the UN seeking out *respectful* terminology, is, with most respect,
a mess. Is there in fact a link to appropriate terminology there somewhere?
Is there content there that can be read by people who *DO NOT* have MS Word
installed?

For a web site that claims to address the needs and allegedly respects the
dignity of those with disabilities, it is probably the most inaccessible
collection of content proposed to this list in some very long time. I know
that it is not content that you authored, but it rubs the wrong way.

JF