Disability Services Quotes

I'm a huge advocate for individuals with disabilities.

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Domestic workers allow many people with disabilities to maintain independent, productive lives and live in their own homes - not in institutions.

As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.

Nearly every American will encounter the need for long-term care.

We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.

Believe me, people with disabilities are just as concerned about benefit fraud as anyone else. Money spent on those who are not in need is money that isn't being spent on vital services to support us in the community.

Line up a group of Horace Mann students, interview them, and take a look at their resumes, and you'll be hard pressed to pick out the students who require extra time. So then, what qualifies these students to receive special accommodations on the SAT?

Reducing the entanglement of Big Government in order to benefit people with disabilities should be a top priority for the Republican party.

One of the big things coming out of healthcare reform is a thing called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS) which is a mechanism to reimburse people staying at home for technology and services that allow them to stay at home.

It's so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you're disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it.

Access Living is a powerful voice for people in the Chicago area who live with disabilities.

Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.

We fill our lives with all sorts of things that make it easier for us to get along in the world: wheelchairs, crutches, grabber sticks, hearing aids, canes, guide dogs, modified vehicles, ramps, as well as other kinds of services and supports. Disability does not necessarily mean dependence on other people.

Yooralla is a people pleaser with a very powerful PR machine.

I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her.