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What do you picture when you think about disability? You probably envision a wheelchair user, the literal symbol of disability plastered on parking spots and bathroom doors. Kathleen Bogart discusses that disability is much broader than most people think.

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While the ADA can be harnessed to carve out physical or digital access where it doesn’t exist, they cannot be used to change behavior from something that upends ordinary social access and norms of community. Peter Slatin discusses that without social accessibility the ADA will remain a half-measure.

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As one of the world’s leading universities, Professor Michael Ashley Stein, co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, discusses how Harvard has the opportunity as well as the responsibility, to lead in disability-inclusion.

As with any victim of discrimination, people with disabilities and people who are aging often feel robbed of a fair chance to live productive lives or to be their full true selves. Sally Bagshaw discusses by addressing ‘ableism’ and ‘ageism’ and including the formerly excluded, our communities will be better for all of us now and in the future.