william peace: I would love to read the article in JAMA but access is restricted. This is an increasingly hard problem to solve in academia.

EB: Mr. Corbett is correct. Words and language matter. If we use language that makes a characteristic, including a disability, more prominent than the fact that a person is a person, we are implying that the characertistic is more important than personhood. We are all more alike than different....

Liz Bucalo: First the Travoltas must grieve, then they need to face the facts. Seizures are related to autism as well as other mental challenges. I am a mother of an 18-year-old young lady, who used to suffer from a seizure disorder. She has since grown out of the seizures but it is still...

Pamela Wilson: If the Travolta family chooses to refer to Jett by his name only, or his name and that he was a great son, much-loved brother, wonderful companion — that is something that is nobody else’s business, whether he could have had a diagnosis or two, or not. I don’t...

Jeff Goble: Congratulations to him on meeting his deadline. His column really doesn’t say much, as far as I’m concerned. He doesn’t seem to make the distinction between a perjorative term and a descriptive one until he reaches the end, and then states the obvious, that...