politically correct language referring to disabilities by avoiding adjectives or the copula
people first language, which refers to the person first and the disability second: Americans with disabilities, for example, rather than disabled Americans, letter to the editor of BusinessWeek, published in Issue 3059 (1988).
people-first language
Расстановка переносов
people-first lan-guage
Произношение
Этимология
() US English. Grammatically a nominal phrase "people first" used as a hyphenated adjective modifying "language".
As a term advocated by disability rights organizations in the United States from 1988.