Berndt W
Rehabilitation (Stuttg). 1982 Feb;21(1):29-31.
The widespread terminological habit of describing and explaining even very profound disabilities along the conceptual lines of developmental retardation is critically appraised and commented. Emphasis is given to essential, if often unidentified or unsaid, implications of this explanatory approach, i.e. the assumption of common characteristics in the "retarded" person and the "non retarded" younger person, implying the optimistic fiction of a contigency for "catching up" on present developmental delays. This conceptual model is discarded as representing a deceptive euphemism, springing from the absence of an anthropology that posits acceptance of a human being regardless of his or her being different without challenging the fact of his or her humanness and intrinsic rights.
本文对一种普遍存在的术语习惯进行了批判性评估和评论，这种习惯是按照发育迟缓的概念框架来描述和解释甚至是非常严重的残疾。重点关注了这种解释方法的一些基本影响，这些影响往往未被识别或提及，即假设“发育迟缓者”和“非发育迟缓的年轻人”具有共同特征，这意味着存在一种乐观的虚构，认为当前的发育延迟可以“赶上”。这种概念模型被视为一种具有欺骗性的委婉说法而被摒弃，它源于缺乏一种人类学观念，这种观念主张无论一个人有何不同，都应接受其为人，且不质疑其人性和固有权利这一事实。
