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Contents of What word or phrase are you most comfortable using to talk about people with disabilities? (i.e., person with a disability, disabled, handicapped, exceptional, PwD, special needs, etc.)

What word or phrase are you most comfortable using to talk about people with disabilities? (i.e., person with a disability, disabled, handicapped, exceptional, PwD, special needs, etc.)

Of the 3833 that answered this "open-ended" question:

2227 included the word people or person

1737 - Person/People/Individual(s) with Disabilities/PwD/Person First

691 - Disabled

595 - Special Needs

101 - Handicapped

78 - Challenged

47- Differently Abled

*Respondents were able to provide multiple answers, this is not additive. There were many other individual responses that did not have any critical mass.