Assignment 1.6 - Prezi

In this visual presentation of my word 'Mentally Challenged', I chose to focus on the social implications of the using the phrase 'mentally challenged/retarded'. The Prezi Presentation, talks about the information I gathered from corpus.byu.edu, which shows a graph of the usage of the phrase through the years. I thus go onto talking about what society thinks of the word, and why there are such fluctuations in using 'mentally challenged'. My goal was to show societies point of view, hence I talk about Rosa's Law and the R-Word Campaign. Both of these tell us that society does not appreciate using the word 'retarded' to describe people. I also included my personal opinion in the presentation, as this is an issue i feel strongly about. There are questions posed in the presentation that one can think about - Is 'mentally retarded' a bad word?. In conclusion, the aim of this presentation was to provide insight on the usage of 'mentally challenged'.