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Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

Without being overtly political about it, if people with severe disabilities are calculated in societal terms purely as a monetised unit, in terms of how much they cost in terms of care, you lose an important sense of who they are and the effect they have.

I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.

These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to inspire.