People with disabilities (Topical Term)
- Earlier heading: Cripples
- Disabilities, People with
- Disabled
- Disabled people
- Disabled persons
- Earlier heading: Handicapped
- Handicapped people
- Individuals with disabilities
- People with physical disabilities
- Persons with disabilities
- Physically challenged people
- Physically disabled people
- Earlier heading: Physically handicapped
- Broader heading: Persons
- Sociology of disability
UMI business vocab. (Handicapped, use Handicapped people; Disabled people, use Handicapped people)
American Heritage dict. (Under handicapped: "Although 'handicapped' is widely used in both law and everyday speech to refer to people having physical or mental disabilities those described by the word tend to prefer the expressions 'disabled' or 'people with disabilities.' Under Disabled: "The often-repeated recommendation to put the person before the disability would favor 'persons with disabilities' over 'disabled persons.')
Americans with Disabilites Act (individuals with disabilities; people with disabilities; persons with disabilities)
Illinois Attorney General, Manual of Style for Depicting People with Disabilities ("People with disabilities prefer to be called just that: people with disabilities.")
LC database, Sept. 10, 2001.
MESH (Disabled persons)
Example under Minorities