The Language of Disability Around the World

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The BBC has issued linguistic guidelines for journalists covering the Paralympics. But as The World’s Patrick Cox reports, the guidelines are for English words only. Many BBC journalists work for foreign language programs, and are having trouble translating some of the terms.

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