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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
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 .
Tanni Grey-Thompson, Baroness Grey-Thompson, disabled athlete and Member of the house of Lords (born with spina bifida) Robert Halfon, Education Select Committee Chair since 2017 (cerebral palsy and osteoarthritis) Aubrey Herbert, MP 1911-23 (near blind from youth, becoming totally blind in his last year of life and service)
He was the first severely disabled person and the youngest person to fill that position. [3] 1977 – Rules were changed, so that service dogs were allowed on the U.S. Senate floor. [140] 1977 – The White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals drew 3,000 people with disabilities to discuss federal policy toward people with disabilities.
The Twelve Tables included laws that also accommodated disabled people in Rome. The Twelve Tables included a law that said disabled children should be put to death, usually by stoning. They also stipulated that if a free person or an enslaved person is injured by another individual and becomes disabled, the injurer has to pay a certain amount ...
Starting in the 1990s, Hawking accepted the mantle of role model for disabled people, lecturing and participating in fundraising activities. [291] At the turn of the century, he and eleven other humanitarians signed the Charter for the Third Millennium on Disability , which called on governments to prevent disability and protect the rights of ...
Judith E. Heumann, Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement: Pioneering Disability Rights Advocate and Leader, 1960s–2000, oral history, Online Archive of California, 2004, retrieved from Pioneering Disability Rights Advocate and Leader in Disabled in Action, New York; Center for Independent Living, Berkeley; World Institute on ...
The character was created by Gene Roddenberry – a positive role model for disabled people. Toph Beifong – from the show Avatar: The Last Airbender was born blind, but uses her Earthbending abilities to sense vibrations and "see" things that are in contact with the earth. For this reason, she hates flying and sailing, as she lacks contact ...