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1988 – The Fair Housing Act was amended to protect people with disabilities from housing discrimination in the areas of rentals, sales, and financing, as outlined in the Civil Rights Act of 1968. The amendment also provided that reasonable modifications had to be made to existing buildings and accessibility had to be constructed into new ...
An exhibition has revealed the historic works and objects belonging to people with disabilities that would otherwise have stayed unseen. Stored Out Of Sight, hosted at Hastings Museum & Art ...
Javed Abidi – director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India [1]; Abia Akram – disability rights activist from Pakistan; founder of the National Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan; prominent figure in the disability rights movement in the country, as well as in Asia and the Pacific; named one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021
People with disabilities in the United States are a significant minority group, making up a fifth of the overall population and over half of Americans older than eighty. [1] [2] There is a complex history underlying the U.S. and its relationship with its disabled population, with great progress being made in the last century to improve the livelihood of disabled citizens through legislation ...
People who stutter include British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, orator Demosthenes, King George VI, actor James Earl Jones, US President Joe Biden, and country singer Mel Tillis. Churchill, whose stutter was particularly apparent to 1920s writers, [ 5 ] was one of the 30% of people who stutter who have an associated speech disorder—a ...
Note: This category's interpretation of disability is quite broad, and may include people with medical conditions that may not typically be considered disabled. See also Category:People with disabilities.
Marie Tidball, MP since 2024 (congenital disability which affects all her limbs) Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1828-30 and 1834 (deaf in one ear from 1822)
The Museum of Disability History is a museum related to the history of people with disabilities from medieval times to the present era. At its premises at 201 I.U. Willets Rd. in Albertson, New York, US, it was the only "brick-and-mortar" museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to preserving the history of people with disabilities.