Disability Labeling

Labeling those with disabilites can be beneficial in identification and knowledge. However, it is also very damaging to those who are labeled. Labeling causes us to have a prejudgment in our minds about those individuals. Before we even meet a person who has been labeled as something, we have a preconceived notion of how that person will be. Whether that notion is true or not, we will treat those differently than the rest of us who are "normal". Labeling is a permanent stereotype that will haunt the person throughout most of his or her life.