Guía APA el uso de lenguaje no discriminatorio e inclusivo

Guidelines for Nonhandicapping Language in APA Journals es una guía para el uso correcto del lenguaje cuando se escribe sobre las personas con discapacidad.

Algunos ejemplos:

Put people first, not their disability.

Comment: Preferred expressions avoid the implication that the person as a whole is disabled or defective.

Problematic	Preferred
disabled person	person with (who has) a disability
defective child	child with a congenital disability; child with a birth impairment
mentally ill person	person with mental illness or psychiatric disability

Do not label people by their disability.

Comment: Because the person is not the disability, the two concepts should be separate.

Problematic	Preferred
schizophrenics	people who have schizophrenia
epileptics	individuals with epilepsy
amputee	person with an amputation
paraplegics	individuals with paraplegia
the disabled	people with disabilities
the retarded	children with mental retardation
the mentally ill	people with a mental illness or psychiatric disability
the CMI or SPMI	people with long-term or serious and persistent mental illness or psychiatric disabilities