Beyond Accessibility: Treating People with Disabilities as People

Most people feel relatively uncomfortable when they meet someone with an obvious physical disability. Usually, the disability seems to stand out in ones mind so much that they often forget the person is still a person. In turn, their discomfort is likely to betray their actions, making the other person uncomfortable too. People with disabilities have goals, dreams, wants and desires similar to people without disabilities. Andre Dubus points out very clearly in his article, "…showed first 75 words of 967 total…

…showed last 75 words of 967 total…that, still continues to trouble myself and likewise other people. When will the rest of the world see that? Works Cited "The DDA: The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)." The Disabilities Rights Commission. 2003. The Disabilities Rights Commission. 15 Feb. 2004 < http://www.drc-gb.org/law/dda.asp> Dubus, Andre. "Why the Able-bodied Still Don't Get It." 1997. Rpt. In American Voices Culture and Community. Ed. Doloras LaGardia and Hans P. Guth. 5th Edition. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2003. 222-224.