By a decisive 7-to-2 vote the justices ruled that Casey Martin, the disabled professional golfer, has a legal right under the Americans With Disabilities Act to ride in a golf cart rather than walk the course during P.G.A. Tour events -- thus ending a four-year dispute that has provoked intense debate among golfers and non-golfers alike.
It gave Martin and presumably other certifiably disabled professional golfers the right to ride -- at least in the nine western states in its jurisdiction.
"This is a court that says that judges are better able than the P.G.A. to define the essence of golf," said Walter E. Dellinger, acting solicitor general during the Clinton administration, in a wry reference to a case decided last year concerning a disabled professional golfer.
The cast includes 73 deaf and disabled professional performers and also well-known names like Sir Ian McKellen as a Prospero-type character, singer Beverley Knight and 3,250 volunteers aged 10-80 from all over the world.
But after all the politics, the awkward terminology and the embarrassed discussions about quality, can learning-disabled dancers ever hope to match non-disabled professional dancers?
At London's Studio Wayne McGregor contemporary company Candoco Dance Company present a company class with their disabled and non-disabled professional dancers and invited guests.
BBC offers six more opportunities for talented BAME or disabled TV professionals to develop their commissioning skills.
Special needs is an ineffective euphemism even in the eyes of people who have a personal connection to disability, such as parents of children with a disability or professionals who work with disabled children or adults.
The site is premised on the notion that it is currently too difficult for the elderly and disabled to find professionals to care for them (or clinicians to find clients who can benefit from their particular skills).
However, parents of children with disabilities and professionals who work with children and adults with disabilities are not nearly so comfortable with the non-euphemized terms disabled and disability (Foundation for Jewish Summer Camps, 2015; Steinberg, 2013).
