Cleveland Browns quarterback and Special Olympics Global Ambassador Joe Haden has a message for everyone:

The R-word is hurtful, hateful and ignorant. Like the N-word, it should not be part of our language.

Haden got involved with Special Olympics because of his younger brother Jacob, who has an intellectual disability. Read more at ESPN.

Deborah M. Spitalnik, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics and Executive Director of The Boggs Center, provided testimony at a public hearing for the New Jersey Department of Health’s Maternal and Child Health Services Title V Block Grant Application on June 23, 2015, in Trenton, NJ.