Learn About Disability in 2018

We can help each other best when we’re informed.

Please take the time to learn some­thing about dis­abil­i­ty in 2018. There is no rea­son to think 2018 will be any less chal­leng­ing for the dis­abil­i­ty com­mu­ni­ty in the U.S. than 2017 was. The things that made 2017 so dif­fi­cult are large­ly unchanged. For that rea­son, it’s impor­tant to con­sid­er how to pro­tect the inter­ests of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties when prob­lems arise in the new year. One small step almost any­one can take is becom­ing more informed in 2018.

It seems para­dox­i­cal to say that pan-dis­abil­i­ty advo­ca­cy efforts have the best track record of fur­ther­ing dis­abil­i­ty rights and dis­abil­i­ty jus­tice in this coun­try, but, his­tor­i­cal­ly, they do. This is true despite the size and diver­si­ty of the group of peo­ple called dis­abled, an umbrel­la so big that it seems like an almost use­less descrip­tor at face val­ue. Peo­ple whose most sig­nif­i­cant access needs are exten­sive med­ical equip­ment to stay alive, extra time on tests until they grad­u­ate from that final aca­d­e­m­ic set­ting to reach their full poten­tial, and viable alter­na­tives to dri­ving a car to main­tain an inde­pen­dent life all fall into the cat­e­go­ry.

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