The Importance of Person-First Language

Caring adults can help all young people feel known, recognized, cared for and celebrated for their unique abilities, identities and backgrounds.  An important step in recognizing a young person's individuality is using person-first language.

Person-first language is language that honors a person's individuality and humanity first and recognizes that a diagnosis or situation is not who a person is but rather is a part of them.  For example, "a young person living with a diagnosis of..." or "a young person experiencing homelessness."

Click here to read more about person-first language and how you can put the person before any given challenge, disability or situation.