A document distributed by the Presidential Inauguration Committee offers, with no apparent sense of irony, "a helpful hints reference guide for politically correct speech when interacting with individuals with disabilities." Distributed to volunteers, the document emphasizes that "in speaking or writing, remember that children or adults with disabilities are like everyone else—except they happen to have a disability." Volunteers are advised not to say "handicapped or disabled child" but instead "child with disability." Similarly, don't say "retarded" but "person with retardation." Don't say "confined to a wheelchair" or "wheelchair bound" but "uses a wheelchair." Don't say "normal" or "healthy," but rather "non-disabled."

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