A way with words

• Introduction
• General guidelines
• Appropriate language
• Interviewing a person with a disability
• Providing public information to people with a disability
• Communicating with a person with a disability

A way with words

Guidelines for the portrayal of people with a disability.

• Introduction
• General guidelines
• Appropriate language
• Interviewing a person with a disability
• Providing public information to people with a disability
• Communicating with a person with a disability
• Publications and resources

Acknowledgements

Disability Services Queensland would like to thank:

• Joan Hume for permission to use ideas from her booklet Media guidelines (Disability Council of New South Wales 1994) in this publication
• Cathy Wilcox for permission to reproduce her cartoons
• the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada for permission to use parts of the document A way with words and images: guidelines for the portrayal of persons with disabilities (Social Development Canada 2002).

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