Advocating for installation of more automatic door openers in buildings across campus. Advocating for additional handicap parking spaces around campus. Establishing an escort service to assist persons with disabilities in getting around campus safely during bad weather. If you would like to join RUN or if you have any questions about the organization, contact Dan Reed at 273-5533. Disability is almost never total in that it affects a narrow range of activity.
Disabilities can be physical, mental, aural, visual, communicative, or developmental.
An individual may have a combination of disabilities. Disabilities can be caused by birth defects, illnesses, or injuries. However, a disability is always a residual effect, not the birth defect, illness, or injury, itself. Whether or not you comprehended all of the above, I'll use myself as a case in point. At birth, I lacked oxygen and developed pneumonia.