Should I Say “Disabled People” or “People with Disabilities”?

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In this episode I unpack Sharif, McCall, and Bolante’s (2022) publication titled “Should I say “disabled people” or “people with disabilities”? Language preferences of disabled people between identity- and person-first language,” which summarizes findings from a survey on participant preferences for language around disability and an analysis on language in conference abstracts.

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00:00 Intro

00:28 Abstract

01:51 My single sentence summary

02:44 Paper introduction

05:05 Background and related work

06:48 Preferences survey

10:34 Quantitative evaluation

10:40 Qualitative evaluation

14:22 Accessible web platform

14:47 Language used in publications

17:13 Discussion

19:30 Lingering questions and thoughts

19:35 If different people have different preferences, how do you go about navigating uncertainty of language preference?

19:55 When is a focus on language use an academic debate and when does it actually help people?

21:13 Outro