One added: "They were in a disabled aircraft on the ground, after a very emotional, disabling event.
Similarly, civil rights intended to help profoundly disabled students don't work well in cases involving mild learning and emotional disabilities that even experts can't distinguish from garden-variety eccentricity or poor concentration.
Consider that there are now four million living disabled American veterans - men and women who have lost limbs, eyes and body organs, not to mention all those with emotional disabilities.
My problem is summed up by the Microsoft advert, which begins with the line "What can you do?" That line reveals how these adverts use disability, and the narrative of overcoming disability, as an emotional hook, to make non-disabled people feel like achieving more.
One of few sections with any emotional significance concerns his disabled sister, but even then Sloss is anxious to show how shocking he can be – and, by association, what "fucking pussies" his audience are.
It's hardly an enticing prospect for would-be adopters, who are repeatedly told that they stand a far better chance of being matched if they're prepared to take on a child who is disabled, has emotional or developmental needs, is in a sibling group, or is older (and therefore more likely to have endured repeated trauma and multiple placements).
It was quite emotional seeing so many great disabled and non-disabled performers putting on such an amazing spectacle.
Not just access to leisure facilities and sports clubs, but to the kind of expert coaching and knowledge of the emotional and psychological needs of disabled youngsters that he received at his specialist school.
You need to learn about issues like rampant physical, sexual, emotional, and economic abuse of disabled people.
Over two hours, I witnessed people reduced to emotional rubble and impotent rage; disabled people unable to even open the door to the jobcentre, and the overwhelming view that – under its benign green insignia and blacked-out windows, Jobcentre Plus isn't a pathway to work – it's a cul-de-sac of cruelty.
