ADA Sign Depot Blog — ADA People

Dylan Alcott, a Grand Slam champion in wheelchair tennis...

“When I was a kid and I was getting bullied at school and I was really upset, I’d say, ‘I don’t know anyone like me, I don’t see anyone like me on the TV or on the radio or the newspaper, and that sucks! That’s not fair,’” he said.

Alcott said he did not grasp the power of his celebrity until his commercials began to air last year.

“We got videos of a little kid in a wheelchair, and every time the ad comes on, he rolls over to the TV and hugs it, because he saw someone like him on TV,” Alcott said. “We get hundreds like that, and that’s so cool.”

I am not only an experienced traveler; I am an experienced blind person.  By Georgina KleegeMs. Kleege teaches in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley. “But what about me?”Those words were spoken by a man sitting next to me on an airplane. I was in the aisle seat and he was in the center. He was speaking to the flight attendant who was delivering the preflight safety briefing. Usually, I will get a private briefing during the preboarding process for people with disabilities. But this time, a flight attendant didn’t get to me until the plane was...