Sensitivity Reading
I have lived my entire life with a physical disability called Spina Bifida. Therefore, I am keenly aware of language that conveys a negative bias or assumption about the lives and characteristics of people who live with a disability. I will carefully and thoroughly examine your manuscript for these issues after it has been copy edited. Here are some examples of problematic language used much too often:
confined to a wheelchair/wheelchair-bound
the disabled
able-bodied
USES a wheelchair. Wheels liberate, they don't confine
people who live with disabilities. Person first
person without a disability--all people are able (maybe in different ways)
