It comes after Rebecca Atkinson launched the ToyLikeMe campaign last year, urging Lego to draw an end to disabled children being "culturally excluded from your much-loved products".
Along the same lines, he said he favored allowing the elderly and disabled to draw down on their pensions and life insurance policies to pay for medical care at home, in nursing homes or in assisted-living centers.
Three stops go past and the man doesn't move, and he seems oblivious to the hard stares of several other passengers, who let their eyes rest on him, and try to draw his gaze to the prominent disabled passengers sign to his right.
On the final day of his tour of the Middle East, Charles helped youngsters to draw and paint at a centre for disabled children in Muscat.
Turns out the doll was created by the Gothenburg Cooperative for Independent Living (GIL), a group that provides assistance to disabled people as a way to draw attention to… um, well, I'm still not quite sure.
The "Eyewriter" is a piece of hardware created by a team Mr. Lieberman was a part of that allows disabled graffiti writers (or any person, really) to draw with their eyes.
I had to draw the line at Sunday school, so I worked a deal that let me get a Sunday school room of my own where I took care of a mentally disabled teenager, Jimmy.
Participant J: "I wouldn't want to have to draw up a whole plan of my bathroom and then end up only putting in one toilet frame afterwards.... .......... Participant H: "I think it would be very useful for actually, if you are going to be designing disabled flats for disabled people".
But that doesn't fully explain why a school with a focus on helping the disabled -- the staff is augmented by specialists in occupational, speech and physical therapy -- would draw non-disabled students as well.
My footsteps may be replaced by the clickity-click of my motor wheelchair, and you may have to listen a little closer when I speak--but I still feel that same sense of responsibility Sayid feels to attempt to blur the line society has inadvertently drawn between the disabled and non-disabled.
