Using the Word 'Retard' to Describe Me Hurts

Read the article in your One Note.  It is under the "Journal" Tab.  Answer these questions in your journal:

1.  Have you ever thought about how using the word "retard" would make someone with intellectual disabilities feel?

2.  How does that word make a Downs Sydrome person feel, according to the writer?

3.  What is one thing you could do to help someone with specials needs, or intellectual disabilities feel included, welcome, and important?