Disability rights groups in New Hampshire are pushing to end use of the word “special” when talking about people with disabilities. They say the term is demeaning, casts people with disabilities as “others” and suggests they don’t belong in the same spaces as everyone else. “When we say that people with disabilities are ‘special,’ we’re trying to dress up our tendency to think of people with disabilities as not being normal, not being part of our community,” said Patricia Vincent-Piet, a disability advocate and member of the New Hampshire Council on Developmental Disabilities …
