A Billion People with Disabilities by 2000 by Art Blaser Art Blaser is a professor of political science at Chapman University. But what the questioner is really trying to hear, of course, is a figure with which to compare our numbers against those of other groups who are also minorities. I've tried, though, to make an actual count. You can't successfully understand disability if you separate it from its societal and cultural factors.
Measurement is a tool for social action.
Whether it's one person or a million, their oppression is still immoral. Unfortunately, it seems, most people don't feel this way. Had Armbrister been pro-ADA, he could have suggested that the smaller number could mean stronger rights protections, since a relatively small expenditure for legal services would have made a difference in the appalling success figures for those EEOC complainants. They also make a difference to foundations, which seek assurance that programs they fund help large numbers of people. Activists hoped the attention to disability issues in the last Presidential campaign would draw votes from both disabled and nondisabled people - based on the belief that there were a large number of people with disabilities.