Words for disabled

 

What to say  disabled (people)	What not to say  (the) handicapped, (the) disabled
has [name of condition or impairment]	afflicted by, suffers from, victim of
wheelchair user	confined to a wheelchair, wheelchair-bound
with a learning disability (singular) with learning disabilities (plural)	mentally handicapped, mentally defective, retarded, subnormal
disabled person	cripple, invalid
person with cerebral palsy	spastic
non-disabled	able-bodied
person with a mental health condition	mental patient, insane, mad
d/Deaf [footnote 1], user of British Sign Language (BSL), people who are hard of hearing	deaf and dumb, deaf mute
people with sight loss, blind people, blind and partially sighted people	the blind
person with epilepsy, diabetes, depression or someone who has epilepsy, diabetes, depression	an epileptic, diabetic, depressive, and so on
someone with restricted growth or short stature	dwarf, midget
seizures	fits, spells, attacks
non-visible	hidden/invisible
accessible parking	disabled/handicapped parking