Globalization of disability culture brought with it technological and medical advances that have greatly benefited disabled people.
The company speaks gamely of how the remote can benefit disabled people, who can now drive the Roomba right out of the closet.
The Special Olympics is one of the nation's premier charitable organizations to benefit disabled people, and the Kennedys have long been deeply involved in it.
Remaining an EU member will help to counter calls to leave the European convention on human rights – and mean we still have the EU's ratification of the UN disability convention, which directs the EU to "harness all its financial, legislative and other tools to benefit disabled people".
The scheme benefits disabled adults, older people with dementia and people with mental health problems who live with the carers' families rather than going into residential care.
Although research that may, in the long term, benefit disabled people--genetics or stem cell research for example--is often in the headlines, disabled people who are themselves scientists tend to have a much lower profile.
In the 2011 fiscal year, 29 states made cuts to services benefiting the disabled and elderly, 34 reduced funds for K-12 and early education, and all but six states reduced positions, benefits or wages of government employees.
At a time when people are losing benefits, disabled people are being singled out because they are somehow seen as getting special treatment, even when they are as much victims of the cuts as anyone.
For all of us who live and work at the sharp end of cuts – minimum-wage employees surviving on diminishing benefits, disabled people, tenants facing eviction, NHS employees – the destructive impact of austerity is clear.
"Step-free access not only benefits disabled passengers or those with reduced mobility, but also people with children, heavy luggage or shopping.
