Over the years, many old-fashioned and offensive terms to describe disabled people have been replaced with more acceptable words.
Its website describes disabled people entering the government's work programme for between three and six months as "3/6Mth stock".
More recently, Beijing Olympic organisers issued an apology in June for clumsy stereotypes used to describe disabled athletes in an English-language manual compiled for thousands of volunteers.
Though Russia still uses the outmoded invalidi to describe disabled people, it now sees the Paralympics as a source of national pride.
The recent Bad News for Disabled People: how newspapers are reporting disability (pdf) report found a significant increase in the use of pejorative language to describe disabled people with terms such as "scrounger", "cheat" and "skiver".
Or I could think about the words those in power use to describe disabled people to the public: the hate peddled by sections of the media, the lies by secretaries of state – each a piece in a dehumanising backdrop that sees disability hate-crime rise and the system fail those who need it.
This national study describes disabled women's experiences of pregnancy, child birth and postnatal care in comparison with non-disabled women.
James admits he had an "uncomfortable" relationship with being described as disabled, and says the show is partly about addressing and coming to terms with that.
The original footage of the young singer, described as "disabled" by the person who uploaded it, has since been removed from the video sharing website.
Four of them are briefly described here: Disabled-2 (Dab2) is a 96-kDa protein, which is thought to be a specific adaptor for members of the Low Density Lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) family.
