Hello everyone, I am a Computer Science Masters student in the University of Washington focusing on accessibility research and I am currently working on a project that aims to understand the variance of respectful and disrespectful language used to refer to people with disabilities.

Currently, there are guidelines online for what language is respectful to use when referring to people with disabilities. The problem with these guidelines, however, is that it is not clear whether they were created using input from people with disabilities which is where these terminologies should be coming from. In addition, these guidelines provide very specific advice that may be perceived as respectful by some people with a given disability but may not be respectful to others within the same community.

**If you could take part in the following** $1 (which is a google form that contains 10 short questions and should take about 10 - 15 minutes), your response will help me learn about what kind of language is respectful and disrespectful to people with disabilities and how that varies between different people that have a similar disability. **Using this data, we can inform and educate the academic community about the proper and most respectful range of terminology that should be used when referring to people with disabilities.**

**Survey can be found here:** $1

Note: if you do not have a preference for such terminology, you can still feel free to fill out this survey and provide this information - we would greatly appreciate it!

Please remember that this survey is for research purposes and is voluntary. We do not anticipate any risk taking it, but you can skip any question you are not comfortable answering as well as free to change your mind about your participation at any time. This survey was approved by UW's IRB.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can contact me at $1 or comment below.

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