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arjietoday at 7:26 AM1 replyview on HN

How interesting that it describes "meeting Terence's special needs". In isolation, that sentence today would mean the opposite of what that person intended it to mean. For a bit in my childhood "differently abled" was the one people went with, but it seems that "special needs" was contemporaneous and just seems to have won. Differently abled does seem awfully obviously euphemistic.


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Joltertoday at 10:32 AM

In a school context, it is (or should be) just as important to consider each child’s need for being appropriately challenged as it is to consider their need for support.