Scholarly Articles
- Nguyen Toan Tran, Baggio, S., Dawson, A., O’Moore, E., Williams, B., Bedell, P., Simon, O., Scholten, W., Getaz, L., & Wolff, H. (2018). Words matter: a call for humanizing and respectful language to describe people who experience incarceration. BMC International Health and Human Rights, 18(1), 41–41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12914-018-0180-4
- Available here.
- Rice, D., Rhodes, J. H., & Nteta, T. (2019). Racial bias in legal language. Research & Politics, 6(2), 205316801984893-. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168019848930
- Available here.
- Hill, W. B. (1992). A Need for the Use of Nonsexist Language in the Courts. Washington and Lee Law Review, 49, 275-.
- Available here.
- Griffin, Z., Long, P., Peña, A., Jacobsen, S., Johnson, A. L., Ottwell, R., Torgerson, T., Walters, C., Ghebrehiwet, M., Vassar, M., & Hartwell, M. (2023). Obesity, stigma, and person‐centered language: A serial cross‐sectional analysis of scientific literature. Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 31(6), 1505–1509. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.23726
- Available here.
Additional Writing Guidelines
Person-centered language is crucial to placing personhood at the center of recovery and treatment process.
Guidelines for writing about people with disabilities, including disability disclosure, emphasizing abilities, and referring to persons first and disabilities second.
A resource for inclusive communications and person-centered language specifically for courts.
Research and Training Center on Independent Living
Articles and research pertaining to portrayal issues for persons with disabilities, including a one-page guideline sheet.
Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Piece about the significance of semantics and person-first language.
Information and guidelines for describing Alzheimer's disease and those living with the disease.
Contributed suggestions of outdated terms and their suggested replacement.
