Disability rights

School resource officers, DOJ lawyers wrote, "must respect the constitutional and statutory rights of the citizens they serve."
The term “people with disabilities” encompasses people with all types of mental and physical disabilities.
The U.S. still has work to do for disability rights, 25 years after the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed.
159 countries have already ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- but not the U.S.
To me, it feels like the opposite of acceptance to have my entire identity as a person with a physical disability reduced to an isolated simulation experience. We must move away from equating empathy with acceptance