BeyoncesGal (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I wish everybody is helpful and thoughtful.

thegigm (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

"treat all people, as you'd like to be treated! remember you`re transporting someone`s mom or dad" bull, not all disabled ppl are old anouth to have kids.

thegigm (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

"a person with as disability is a person" really? not in the UK, you should hear some of the verbal abuse done to diabetics like me,

97925509 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I work with disabled people and I I find "Commandment 8 - Place yourself at eye level when speaking to someone in a wheelchair" (among others) very condescending Shall we start patting people in chairs on the head too? I'm sorry, but many of the people I have met with a disability want to be treated no differently than others, and therefore do not need their own set of rules describing how to treat them. Do you have your own commandments? I certainly dont.

rnb8220 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

some good points but what is so wrong in pointing out that there is a disability. I'm saying this as a person with a physical disability. I am what I am. That's it. Some good points all around but some of it is the language of disabled as disadvantaged, charity cases but overall pretty good work. Was all that tail end music from "Wicked"? I should see that play someday.

RodolfoManfredi (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Right!Respect and dignity for all!!!!!

Gamersvikes (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The game handicap came after hand in cap practices of old England. The first handicap permits were given to people with disabilities in order to allow them to beg on the streets. They were then called handicaps. The use of handicap for games and sports came later.

getmobilized (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

As mentioned, "Handicap" comes from a British bartering game called "Hand-in-Cap" which was shortened to "Handicap", because it involved people taking things out of a mutual pot, which was often a hat. This game was all about trade disadvantages, so it was later adopted by horse racing, where a "handicap" meant putting extra weight upon a particularly strong horse to "even the odds". Regardless of what origin you use, it is still pretty condescending and horrible.

lantusappreciation (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I don't like person first language. I'm an autistic diabetic, like I'm a Jewish student. I'm not a person with autism and diabetes unless I'm a person who is Jewish and studies. Otherwise, I like this video.

cguhr (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

As you will note, the video is an opener to a training session that is followed by a facilitated discussion wrapping around our need to label and find reasons to justify labeling "people". In this subsequent training we do mention the myth(s) associated with the term Handicap and even Oxford's word origin involving gambling and carrying an "undo burden" ...