Disability 101 — Disabled: our largest minority | SummitDaily.com

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Who is my audience?

A year and a half later and here I am still writing about disabilities and disability awareness and etiquette. Why?

Some people have asked, “Sandy, why don't you get your column in some other publication that has a larger readership of people with disabilities? There's just not that many people with disabilities who read the Summit Daily News.”

If you are asking this, you've missed the point. My audience is

not people with disabilities. My audience is people who don't have disabilities. Why?

Over one in five Americans, approximately 54 million people, have some type of disability. People with disabilities are the largest minority group in our nation. It is the only minority group that any person can join at any time. You are only one car accident away from a disability yourself.

Some 30 percent of our nation's families have one or more members with a disability. Of Americans who are 65 or older, 50 percent have a disability.

Disability is not unusual. Disability is not rare. It's common, and there are more people than ...

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