Many of the buses in town now have special features to make them accessible to disabled passengers.
By going around the world in his wheelchair, Canadian hero Rick Hansen was able to show the world that people with a physical disability are able to do great things.
This building is really
difficult for disabled people to get around in.
The government needs to do more to ensure that all public buildings are readily accessible to the disabled.
The injury to her knee disabled her for life.
There are special Olympics for disabled athletes, such as those who
are blind or in wheelchairs.
He doesn't consider his blindness to be a disability; to him, it is simply a challenge.
He has been physically disabled ever since he broke his back in a car accident.
James Bond was able to disable the bomb just seconds before it was set to
explode.
The Rick Hansen Institute works to remove barriers that limit people with disabilities from reaching their full potential.
He has a speech disability that makes him almost impossible to understand.
Studies show that people with disabilities are less likely to engage in regular moderate physical activity than people without disabilities, yet they have similar needs to promote their health, and prevent unnecessary disease.
Lebanon's civil war has left over 75,000 of its people with permanent disabilities.
The intense fires that erupted when the hijacked airliners hit the World Trade Center's twin towers disabled the water supply for hoses.
It is estimated that as many as 25,000 people in Angola have been permanently disabled by landmines.
Until recently, people with disabilities, the very old, animals, street vendors and even pregnant women were never seen in the North Korean capital P'yonggyang.
In December of 1984, a gas leak at a pesticide plant near Bhopal, India, killed 3,000 people, and disabled thousands.
In the 1930s, the Nazis began murdering physically and mentally disabled people by gas, lethal injection and forced starvation.
A man named Jeff Adams went all the way up the 1,776 stairs to the top of the CN Tower in his wheelchair to illustrate the barriers facing people with disabilities.
Recently, the World Health Organization put stress at the top of the worldwide disabilities list.
Stress is currently the number one workplace disability issue in North America.
Discussion question: Talk about what services are available for the disabled in your country.
Find someone who knows someone who is disabled.