Argentine government corrects norm where he called “fool” or “idiot” to disabled

The Argentine government was forced to rectify this Thursday, announcing that it will modify the “obsolete terminology“Used in an official document to refer to people with intellectual disabilities with terms such as”idiot“,”moron” and “mental weak”, The disability agency reported.

In January, the National Disability Agency (Andis) published a resolution in which it establishes the parameters with which individuals will be evaluated to obtain, or continue to perceive, a disability subsidy. In its annex, the levels of intellectual development of the “are describedMental delays”

According to this text, there is the “idiot”, which “He did not go through the Glyós (verbal) stage, he does not read or write, he does not know the fireman …”; then the “moron“, that “Do not read or write, (but) meet your elementary needs”; And finally the “deep mental weak”, which “Perform rudimentary tasks“, he “moderate“And”mild“, that “You can perform larger tasks. ”

“They correspond to those who present deep or greater mental weakness”, The text spread in the Official Gazette continues, published within the framework of a wide audit implemented by the Government of the Ultraliberal Javier Milei in order to review the ideoneity of disability pensions.

After repudiation of this content by human rights organizations and people with disabilities, Andis recognized in a statement this Thursday that the publication of such terms was “An error derived from the use of concepts belonging to an obsolete terminology ”.

The resolution and controversy annex “They will be modified following current medical and regulatory standards, with the aim of ensuring that the terminology used is aligned with international references”, Said the agency on Network X, clarifying that these changes will not modify”Your evaluation criteria”

Seven organizations demanded three weeks ago the repeal of this standard by pointing out that its content “attentive flagrant“The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, among other things because”The classification of people as ‘valid’ or ‘invalid’ for work is contrary to the social model and is in itself discriminatory. ”