Editorial

WE DISCUSSED and dismissed a lot of other ideas for this month??s cover before settling on our high-tech home help making tea and getting it so wrong. The terminology around disability has always been controversial; the term `differentlyabled people??, for example, which was coined in the 1980s by the US Democratic National Committee, never really seemed to catch on. Our main problem was hitting on the right image ?? we threw out various pictures on the theme of disability that were too medical, vaguely patronising, way too negative or painted disabled people as victims, isolated and lonely people in a depressing world.