This is how far they’d come: After years of campaigning against the “r-word,” advocates with Special Olympics decided they should avoid educating elementary school children about the slur because so ...

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American singer Lizzo was recently slammed for using a derogatory term for people with cerebral palsy–a brain condition that affects movement and coordination.In her new song “Grrrls,” Lizzo used the ...

“Disabled humans are humans beyond their disability,” Anna Sweeney tells PEOPLE Anna Sweeney/Instagram, Rachel Rubin at PARLR A Massachusetts woman is sharing why the word “deadweight” should no ...

We’ve all heard it said that one picture can be worth a thousand words. Sometimes, one word can make a thousand pictures worthless. Almost 30 years ago, after a disagreement with a moving fire truck, ...

Last week, many disabled Americans were shocked, but not surprised, as they told BTPM and described on social media, that President Donald Trump used the word “retarded” in a social media post ...

Natural language processing (NLP) is a type of artificial intelligence that allows machines to use text and spoken words in many different applications - such as smart assistants or email autocorrect ...