They include government ministries and departments, international partners, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, professional organizations, disabled people's organizations, and children with disabilities and their families.
After that, medical and educational professionals lump disabled premature children with the estimated six million disabled youngsters in the United States.
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.
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?
When interviewing a range of deaf and disabled professionals, it was interesting that many wished to remain anonymous.
hotels, which have become a significant source of low-cost housing in a city where the wait for public housing is 30,000 names long, attract a wide range of people, from working professionals to the disabled and unemployed, drug addicts and parolees.
Remember to read resources not only by medical professionals, but by disabled people themselves.
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.
