1. Empowering language can either be used positively or negatively for instance, if you offer some kind words of advice to a friend or a fellow classmate you could potentially be giving them the encouragement they need to keep moving forward in their life. Negative language though can be harmful and could make someone feel lonely and down. As said in the People First Language article "A person's self-image is strongly tied to the words used to describe him/her." whether that be positive words or negative words is up to you.

2. In my opinion gaining power is a privilege. If you have power most people think of you as being superior to your coworkers, or fellow classmates but that is not always the case. To me privilege means a reward of some type that could potentially be taken away if you do wrong. For example: I work at McDonald's I am a cashier, I have worked at McDonald's for about a year and I am never late for my shift. I am promoted to be the assistant manager at the McDonald's that I work at, that is a privilege that I gained and I now have more power over the other employee's simply because I got promoted to a higher position because I worked hard. I know that if I start slacking on the job and missing shifts and taking long breaks that my privilege of being assistant manager could easily be taken away from me. So essentially they go hand in hand together.

3. My personal commitment is to give in return the respect that others give to me. I wish to really try hard and focus on changing the way I speak about special needs children by using the people first language more regularly. People First Language is a wonderful idea that will help lead to no segregation among people with disabilities because after all people with disabilities are more like us than they are different from us.