Now,researchers at the University of Washington have developed new cursors that make activating objects easier for people with motor disabilities.

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Instead,she said people with mental disabilities needed to be treated as useful citizens and given special education and training.

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And these are real disabilities where people are not able to work to their full capacity,can't earn an income.

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"It's a very incorrect assumption that people with disabilities are in their community sitting around passively waiting for something good to happen.

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Eunice Shriver was best known for creating the Special Olympics, an athletic event for people with mental disabilities.

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The World Health Organization and the World Bank say people with disabilities should be able to use the same services as everyone else.

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Eunice Shriver used Rosemary as an example of how not to treat people with disabilities.

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Under her guidance, the foundation turned its attention to studying the causes of mental disabilities.

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"The brain-machine interface is a system that allows disabled people, people suffering from physical disabilities to communicate with external world and also to control devices."

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In the last two years, more than one hundred forty countries have signed a United Nations treaty, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

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Congress passed the law to bar discrimination against people with physical or mental disabilities.

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It also sought to improve the way society treats people with such disabilities.

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Marca Bristo heads a group called the United States International Council on Disabilities.

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"Let us not forget that we have miles to go to overturn the prejudice and oppression facing the world's one hundred eighty million citizens with intellectual disabilities."

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Brain-computer interface, or BCI,technology could help people with disabilities send commands to machines.

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She influenced her brother to create a committee to study developmental disabilities.

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His efforts resulted in the Americans with Disabilities Act in nineteen ninety.

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So he knows the problems people with disabilities face in public spaces.

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He worked to end discrimination against people with physical and mental disabilities.

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Bobbi Wailes also fought for passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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"If we are going to build something -- how we build it, how we construct it, so that it would be accessible to people of all types of disabilities.

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"People with disabilities are living in the streets in some countries.

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The examples include cerebral palsy, blindness,hearing problems and learning disabilities.

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She started the Special Olympics for athletes with mental disabilities.

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Andrew Imparato heads the American Association of People with Disabilities.

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People still look at you weird, but it's like, 'All right,he's disabled now, but it's kind of OK now.'" Matthew Sapolin is commissioner of the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, and he is blind.

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Disability advocates say that also will help diminish the negative stereotyping that people with disabilities sometimes still endure.

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