For disabled children the odds of living in a lone-parent household were 26% greater and of living with a parent with a DDA-defined disability over three times greater than for non-disabled children after adjustment for confounding variables.
Disabled people's lives are more than something for non-disabled actors to play at.
Of those disabled people in work, the proportion which are low-paid employees is 10 per cent higher than it is for non-disabled workers.
"But the Paralympics is not the reality of life for disabled people, like the Olympics isn't the reality of life for non-disabled people.
"Medicaid spending per capita in 2009 was $2,313 for children and $2,926 for non-disabled adults," the primer said.
Data collected by the ANED found that the proportion of disabled adults who live at risk of poverty is 16.5%, compared with 6.6% for non-disabled people.
More disabled people are taking part in sport at least once a week, but participation levels still lag behind those for non-disabled people, with Sport England hopeful a National Lottery investment of £10.2m can help to cut the gap.
Physically integrated dance has traditionally modified choreography for non-disabled dancers to accommodate disabled dancers; Sheppard wanted to choreograph specifically for bodies in wheelchairs.
bAdjustments performed for the prosthetic hands (based on the pilot study); for non-disabled hands, the adjustment was unnecessary.
The proportion living in lone parents families however was significantly greater than that for non-disabled children.
