Washington Has Been Ignoring This Issue For

Technology Tools Such As Laptops Are The Kind Of Help That We Need. A Program That Provides Laptops For All Youngsters Would Close A Gap That Most Of Us Are Not Aware Of, Or Will Not Admit To, Which Is A Tremendous Gap In The Poor Communities.

It Was The Best Route To Get Folks To Understand Segregation Fast. Civil Rights And Women's Rights Had A Clear History. Making The Transition To Rights For People With Disabilities Became Easier Because We Had The History Of The Other Two.

The Whole Community Of People With Disabilities Was Alive, Politically Alive. I Give Justin Dart Credit For That. He Traveled To Every State In The Country. He Really Made People With Disabilities Understand That They Had Some Political Power.

I Do Not Think We Are Ever Going To Be Able To, For A Long Time, Get The Kind Of Quality Of School Personnel That We Need In Our Schools, Especially In The Areas Of Science And Math. One Of The Answers To That Problem Is To Use More Educational Technology.

People Didn't Always See A Person With A Disability Who Had To Use A Ramp Or Elevator As People Who Have Been Given Unnecessary Privileges. But I Run Into That Often Now. People Are Saying, 'why Do We Have To Go To Great Expense For These People?'