Mississauga.ca - Residents - Inclusive Language

Instead Of	Use
the visually impaired/blind	person who is blind person with a visual disability
the aged/elderly	seniors, older adults
disabled community	disability community
disabled, handicapped crippled	person who has a mobility disability person with a disability, people with disabilities
lame	person with a mobility disability
physically challenged	person with a physical disability
deaf, mute, dumb, hearing impaired	person with a hearing disability person with hearing loss person who is hard of hearing
confined to a wheelchair wheelchair bound	person who uses a wheelchair
insane, crazy, demented, deviant, loony, lunatic, mad, maniac, mental mentally diseased, neurotic, nut case, pyscho, schizophrenic, unsound mind	person with a mental health disability person with mental illness person who has schizophrenia person who has depression
mentally retarded, defective, feeble minded, idiot, imbecile, moron, simple, mongoloid	person with an intellectual disability person with a developmental disability
suffers from, afflicted by, stricken with, victim of	person with a disability person who has multiple sclerosis, etc