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President Obama had asked questioners to stand, but the man who asked the second question could not.
"I am unable to stand up, I believe I am entitled to that exception under the ADA," he said with a smile. The young woman who had handed him the microphone apologized. The man's question was about how to encourage the "emerging population of people with disabilities" to work, and how to appreciate the value of those who, while disabled, are eager to work. He called this "your disability agenda."
"We need everybody, and every program that we have has to be thinking on the front end, how do we make sure it's inclusive," Obama said. "That's true on the education front where our recovery package is increasing funding for children with disabilities, it is true with how Hilda Solis, our secretary of Labor will be thinking about our training programs.... It means enforcing the ADA and fighting back on some court opinions that have tried to narrow in ways that I think are inappropriate, the original intent of that legislation."
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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