DISABILITIES

developmentally disabled

Parents of developmentally disabled children need more support.​

you can talk about an intellectual disability​

Don't say: mentally challenged, slow, retard​

hearing impaired

deaf (as an adjective)​

people who are deaf​

​He is hearing impaired.

Don't say: the deaf​

blind (as an adjective)

visially impaired​

My mother is visually impaired.​

You should say people who are blind​, instead of saying the blind

a learning disability

a student with a learning disability​

Don't say: slow, special​

Van Gogh had a psychiatric disability.​

people with autism, people with disabilities​

Don't say: mental, crazy, retard, insane, lunatic​