Inoffensive Language

1. Inoffensive Language

2. Why it is important: • When you use offensive language, your readers perceive that your attitude is offensive.

3. How to avoid offensive language: • When referring to people with disabilities, focus on the person, not the disability.

4. Examples….

5. Parking is available for The handicapped or disabled.

6. Parking is available for People with disabilities.

7. The car was hit from the side and the driver is now brain damaged.

8. The car was hit from the side and now She has a brain injury.

9. The nurse was sent to help with the autistic child.

10. The nurse was sent to help the child with autism.

11. She is emotionally disturbed.

12. She has a mental-health condition.

13. I SPENT 3 YEARS IN disdWorkING with retarded kids.

14. I SPENT 3 YEARS IN DISD WorkING with intellectually disabled kids.

15. The company makes accommodations for the Deaf

16. The company makes accommodations for the Hearing impaired

17. A new procedure was discovered to help Blind people.

18. A new procedure was discovered to help the Visually impaired

19. Mad Cow Disease Bovine Spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a chronic, degenerative disorder affecting the central nervous system of cattle. It is commonly called Mad Cow Disease. Evidence suggests that certain contaminated cattle feed ingredients are the source of BSE infection in cattle. The process that leads to contaminated feed starts when livestock already harboring the BSE agent are slaughtered. After cows and sheep are killed, the edible parts are removed. The inedible remnants are taken to a special plant where they undergo a process called rendering. Two major products are created: • fat, which is used in an array of products (such as soap, lipstick, linoleum, and glue) • meat-and-bone meal, a powdery, high-protein supplement that is often processed into animal feed. Although the animal remnants are “cooked” at high temperatures during the rendering process, the BSE agent, if present, is able to survive. When this contaminated meat-and-bone meal is fed to cattle as a protein supplement, the BSE agent can be passed onto many new cattle. It is believed that is how BSE spread through the U.K. cattle herds. Currently, no test can reliably detect BSE in live cattle. A diagnosis is confirmed by examining brain tissue after death.

20. Mad Cow Disease In the U.K. there has been a disease spreading through the cattle called Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or Mad Cow Disease. This is a degenerative disease that affects their central nervous system. Evidence suggests that the source of BSE is from the inedible remnants of infectious livestock entering the cattle feed. Before entering the feed, these remnants are removed from cattle and sheep and taken to a plant where they undergo a process called rendering. From the plants, two major products are created: • animal fat, which is used in a wide range of products (such as soap, lipstick, linoleum, and glue) • a meat-and-bone meal that is often processed into animal feed for high protein The animal remnants are then cooked to remove any diseases, but even at high temperatures the BSE agent survives. When the cattle eat this feed, they are likely to get contaminated. As humans, we can get sick by consuming meat that has been contaminated. Unfortunately, once the cattle are infected the only way of knowing they carry the disease is by examining their brain tissue after death.