NIH Style Guide: Person-first and Destigmatizing Language

Resource: NIH Style Guide: Person-first and Destigmatizing Language

What it is: “Person-first language is a way to emphasize the person and view the disorder, disease, condition, or disability as only one part of the whole person. Describe what the person ‘has’ rather than what the person ‘is.’”

https://www.nih.gov/nih-style-guide/person-first-destigmatizing-language