CPACC Quick Guide

Etiquette

Applying disability etiquette in practice.

Disability etiquette means following respectful rules when you talk or act with people who have disabilities. It means seeing them as whole people first, asking before you help and doing what the person with a disability wants.

Key point

Etiquette changes as community likes change and is not the same in all disability groups. What one group thinks is polite words or actions may not be liked by another group, and people in the same group also have different preferences.

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