Helped needed: Correct English words for Baby Change room!

[Marcella Ross]

that’s it Vitor……!

Baby Changing Room or Baby Changing Area

Disabled Toilet

[Vitor Brito]

Baby Changing Area, it will be :lol1:
I won’t be writing Toilet on the other signs, can it be taken "ofensive" or may i have any problems if i write only disabled in the sign?

Thx a lot

Marcy 😉

:thumbsup:

[nonstopstuff]

I don’t think the word ‘toilet’ would be a problem, but if you’re not sure I think ‘WC’ is internationally understood, and maybe more subtle…

[Vitor Brito]

I Know what you mean, but it’ll have a WC sign in the entrance door and then one in each inside door to separate gents from ladies etc

I just didn’t want to upset anyone writing only disabled in the sign if that can be ofensive in any form.

thx

[Shane Drew]

I’m curious why ‘toilet’ would be considered offensive? If it were ‘bog’ or ‘loo’ or some other slang I’d understand, but ‘toilet’ is a legitimate word.

If you go to McDonalds now, you’ll notice they have no text at all now, jut the international disabled (wheelchair), and male/female symbols. I think that is becoming the standard of ‘restroom’ signs now.

cheers

[Vitor Brito]

Ups, 😳
might be my bad english turning on me, coz what i wanted to say is that i don’t want anyone to find the sign ofensive having only the word "disabled" writen on it coz in Portuguese that isn’t seen as very politely correct.

Thx for all your answers.

Vitor Brito

[CUTAJAR JOSEPH]

Why Toilet and not rest room. the americans use it all over the place. 🙂

How about:
To be used by People with Special Needs.

Joseph

[Andrew Boyle]

Yes Vitor………
the wording Disabled Toilet has also been a bit of problem here as well.. changed some directories last year…… will let you know the new wording.

It was a tourist type place so they will have worked it out (!)

[Andrew Boyle]

Accessible Toilets 🙂

[Vitor Brito]

Thx for all your answers.

Andrew, thank you very much for the clarification, that was exactly the kind of trouble i was trying to avoid, and altought i couldn’t guess if it had the same kind of moral "stress" that it had in Portuguese, i knew that at least here specialy the disabled associations do prefer words like inabilited, disfuncional etc, not that i really think there is any diference, in fact i do prefer to call the "bull" by the name then goin around to say same something with the exact same meaning or at least very similar. Hope i made sense. 😳

Edit: In the next ones i’ll have this info to consider, coz in fact i delivered the signs yesterday afternoon and as i didn’t knew this before, i didn’t toke any chances so i followed Shane’s tip and used only the wheelchair. I wanted this to be very good as it’s an old and very good customer, my first job for him was in fact my first graphic job (while employee in another company), since that day he followed me trough 3 diferent companies and 1st day i established as selfemployed he came in just to greet me for my new venture and assure me that whenever he needed something he would ask me first then anyone else.