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Jan 9, 2016 18:40
8 yrs ago
English term

spinal disabled vs spinally disabled

English Medical Medical (general)
Which one would you use to call a person with a spinal disability?

Thank you!
Responses
4 +2 person with a spinal disability / people/persons with spinal disabilities
5 +2 Neither
3 +1 TAKE YOUR PICK

Discussion

Peter Simon Jan 10, 2016:
Sorry, B D Finch, then I was driven somehow to feel that there you'd stopped joking. Yeah, oh dear!
Veronika McLaren Jan 10, 2016:
Much Ado About Nothing (Much)...
B D Finch Jan 10, 2016:
@Peter Oh dear! I thought from your previous comment that you had realised the stuff about going mental was just a joke. It was just intended to illustrate that the adverbial form "spinally disabled" should be preferred to "spinal disabled".
DTSM (asker) Jan 10, 2016:
thank you everybody!
Peter Simon Jan 10, 2016:
Asker, as philgoddard suggested in his no.2 entry here, you've answered your Q already in your Q, and this was it.
DTSM (asker) Jan 10, 2016:
'Persons with Spinal Disabilities'? Whould that be a better name for an NGO?
Peter Simon Jan 10, 2016:
Beautiful example, pity Belorussian English is not necessarily normative :)
DTSM (asker) Jan 10, 2016:
'Spinally Disabled Persons' sounds better to me. does 'Spinal Disabled Persons' sound fine to you?
DTSM (asker) Jan 10, 2016:
:) I have an NGO http://en.ngo.by/projects/disabled/af6f4c9fcdb5.html
Peter Simon Jan 10, 2016:
B D Finch, I know, but that has hardly any bearing on using the phrase "mental handicapped" if at all. Just like 'go berserk' exists, but that's no reason to say 'berserk disabled'. Oh dear, what are we discussing here ... ? And why ...
B D Finch Jan 10, 2016:
@Peter Not sure whether you realised that "to go mental" is a colloquial expression meaning to get uncontrollably angry (also "to lose one's rag", but that's a bit dated).
Peter Simon Jan 10, 2016:
B D Finch, this interpretation of "mental handicapped" sounds very laboured and far-fetched to me, I'm afraid. Would you say something about 'the mental disabled' or 'the physical handicapped' as well? Disabled who've gone mental and handicapped who've gone physical? "mental disabled" is simply and most likely grammatically wrong (not grammatical wrong ...). But as you've agreed, I enjoy and love the joke :) Hope you enjoy my jokes about it too.
B D Finch Jan 10, 2016:
@Peter Simon Agree. Love 'the vertical challenged' (as opposed to the horizontal challenged?), which shows why the mentally handicapped are not the same as "the mental handicapped" (handicapped people who've gone mental).
Peter Simon Jan 10, 2016:
Jonathan, I'm just wondering whether you'd speak about 'the mental disabled' or 'the physical handicapped' or 'the vertical challenged' for that matter? No, not with the adjectival forms, I don't think so. So why did you suggest 'the spinal disabled' and not 'spinally'? Please enlighten.
Veronika McLaren Jan 9, 2016:
Oops... simultaneous entry
Veronika McLaren Jan 9, 2016:
perhaps: person (living) with a spinal disability - in referring to such an individual
philgoddard Jan 9, 2016:
You've answered your own question A person with a spinal disability.
Jonathan MacKerron Jan 9, 2016:
I wouldn't use either of them for individuals However, people with spinal disabilities I might call 'the spinal disabled'.

Responses

+2
23 hrs
Selected

person with a spinal disability / people/persons with spinal disabilities

"Spinal disabled" and "spinally disabled" get very few Google hits and the former gets mainly Australian ones because there seems to be an Australian association incorporating the phrase. However Googling for "with spinal disabilities" gets thousands of hits.

As there are a range of disabilities involved, the plural, disabilities, seems to be used more often and especially when referring to more than one person.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0735565201
Vincent R. Fontana, ‎Esq Fontana - 2006 - ‎Law
Persons with spinal disabilities or who are perceived to have such disabilities are persons with a disability within the meaning of Sections 3 and 102(a) of the ...

https://books.google.com/.../Physiotherapy_Assessment_of_Chi...
Physiotherapy Assessment of Children with Spinal Disabilities: Monitoring for Neurological Stability.

www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Friends-set-jibe-disabled-man/....
15 Jul 2010 - Abuse shouted at a man with a spinal disability resulted in a fight between a group of men at Northload Street in Glastonbury, Frome ...

www.fox9.com/virtual/web/kmsp/news/the-goods/62112870-story... Dec 2015 - A group of bikers donated a personalized bike for a local 8-year-old boy with a spinal disability who had long been searching for one.
Peer comment(s):
agree Jörgen Slet
3 days 17 hrs
Thanks Jörgen
agree Yvonne Gallagher : of course!
4 days
Thanks Gallagy
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+1
2 hrs

TAKE YOUR PICK

A person with a spinal disability ...
Spinally disabled person ...
Peer comment(s):
agree Yasutomo Kanazawa
14 hrs
でお願いします, Yasutomo ...
disagree B D Finch : See Peter Simon's comment in the Discussion section.
18 hrs
Thank you, Barbara, for your valuable time ...
agree philgoddard
1 day 7 hrs
Un gros merci, Phil ...
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+2
21 hrs

Neither

Both seem to be incorrect!
Peer comment(s):
agree Tina Vonhof (X) : You would simply call them 'disabled' - no need to specify the location of the disability.
29 mins
Thanks
agree Peter Simon
1 hr
Thanks
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