"I'm delighted that we've been able to bring a new audience to the Paralympics and, more importantly, that our coverage has played a part in delivering a lasting legacy in changing people's perceptions of both disability and disabled sport" said Channel 4's chief creative officer Jay Hunt.
It might be better to save money by directing disability benefits at disabled people, rather than means-testing payments to people who do not need them in the first place.
Given that disability benefits account for around a quarter of the total social-security bill, substantial savings would be possible from focusing disability benefits on genuinely disabled people.
"Every four years the games become more elite and gain more respect because we are seen as elite athletes with a disability, rather than disabled athletes who do sports, " she adds.
It mustered a 16 vote majority against Crossbencher Lady Grey Thompson's amendment calling for an independent study and pilot programmes before the new Personal Independence Payment for disabled people replaces Disability Living Allowance.
It seems you are ok if you start life with a disability or work several years before becoming disabled.
Abuse adds as much as 20 minutes to the wait for a wheelchair for some disabled passengers at LAX, disability advocates say.
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My government will introduce legislation to establish a Disability Rights Commission, which will assist disabled people in securing comprehensive civil rights and help employers meet their obligations.
And further research should seek to "identify the age at which children grasp an understanding of disability and begin to form prejudice over disabled and chronically ill children".
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Other questions were on access to and use of disability services by black and minority ethnic disabled people, careers advice in schools, and proposed action to take in the light of the house building data for the quarter to March 2012.
While some could argue that even the disabled living solely on their disability benefits have a responsibility to pay taxes like the rest of us, requiring them to take a portion of their disability check and paying it over to the government as incomes taxes would increase the likelihood that these people would end up with insufficient money to care for themselves.
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Mr Randell has a physical disability, but has never worked with a disabled workforce.
Disability advocates hope the subset requirement will ensure disabled workers aren't unfairly steered toward lower-paying jobs.
Our biggest disability is in our heads, and being disabled might just be in the mind of the beholder.
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Yet despite a 40% increase in average real incomes since 1979, British taxpayers spend more than four times as much on disability benefit for more than twice as many disabled people as they did then.
Social Security disability benefits and federal rehabilitation programs aided thousands of disabled miners, many of whom had been bedridden for years.
The Disability Rights Commission said it was deeply concerned and said disabled people should have the right to take scooters into pubs.
The charity Disability Wales said the charges come at a time when disabled people could afford it least as they faced benefit cuts and welfare reform.
The government has already delayed a proposal to remove money designed to fund travel for disabled people in residential care from the existing Disability Living Allowance.
His formal opinion is that laws designed to prevent age and disability discrimination also apply to workers who are not themselves disabled or ageing but do look after someone who is.
We Are Spartacus, an online campaign group about disabled people's views on the welfare system, analysed figures from the Department for Work and Pensions and Motability, the organisation that supplies lease cars and specialist converted vehicles to disabled people claiming the highest mobility rate of Disability Living Allowance.
Most disabled athletes say few people tend to notice their disability at able-bodied competitions.
Undaunted by his disability and backed by his parents, he has proved that disabled athletes are capable of competing against and holding their own with their able-bodied rivals.
The former Paralympian and member of the all-party parliamentary disability group said she had a "real fear" that disabled people would be "ghettoised and excluded from society", under the new rules.
The survey was carried out for disability charity Scope by ComRes, which held online interviews with 386 disabled adults and 111 parents (and eight carers) of disabled people in August.
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Baroness Grey-Thompson, a crossbencher, expressed her fear that disability benefit reforms could result in some people being "considered not disabled enough to be supported but considered to be too disabled by society to play a full part in it".
Newcastle Disability Forum's chair Alison Blackburn believes we could even have a disabled prime minister in the future.
The proposed changes were pushed in part by disability advocates, who say that decades-old laws intended to bring disabled people into the work force just aren't working.
Deputy Gollop, who is also the States' disability champion, said double-decker buses would make it easier for some disabled passengers to travel because they offered more room on the lower deck for wheelchairs.
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