Communications Clarity Dept: useful Distinctions

I keep getting reminded how fuzzy words can be – and how much clarity matters to those of us who work across traditional boundaries between specialties, disciplines or sectors of society. We just submitted a paper that will be presented at the McCrery-Pomeroy SSDI Solutions Conference on Aug. 4 and then published later this year. During the peer-review process, it became clear that we, the authors, were confusing readers by using terms “disability,” “early intervention” and “recovery" differently than they do. So in our new and improved version of the ...