Phrases that you might not realize are ableist

<p><a href="https://sheribyrnehaber.medium.com/are-you-ready-to-be-anti-ableist-in-2021-239103637949" rel="noopener">Ableism&nbsp;</a>is a set of beliefs or practices that devalue and discriminate against people with physical, intellectual, or psychiatric disabilities and often rests on the assumption that disabled people need to be &ldquo;fixed&rdquo; and are not equal to non-disabled individuals. The accepted and everyday use of ableist language is *one* piece of evidence that an environment may consider disability discrimination acceptable.</p> <p>Recently, my employer established an inclusive language module in Microsoft Word, where documents can be reviewed for non-inclusive language. Because of the advocacy of the disability employee resource group, ableist language was added as one of the things highlighted and more inclusive language suggested.</p> <p><a href="https://sheribyrnehaber.medium.com/phrases-that-you-might-not-realize-are-ableist-4a7e4c327a8f"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>