Accessible route sign. Photo credit: vofuth.

Take a look at your trail signs, web site, marketing materials, and the signs in your parking lot.

Is the language “Handicapped Bathrooms” or “Bathrooms accessible to people with disabilities”? “Handicapped Parking” or “Accessible Parking”? The latter is preferred in both instances.

“People First Language (PFL) represents more respectful, accurate ways of communicating. People with disabilities are not their diagnoses or disabilities; they are people, first.” To read more, visit http://www.disabilityisnatural.com/ and look for Kathie Snow’s articles.