USILC

Utah Statewide Independent Living Council

  • DID YOU KNOW?

    There are over 750 million people in the world today with some type of disability! Think about that number for a minute - the population of the state of California is 30 million people. The population of the United States is 250 million people. The population of the United States would only equal one third of the number of disabled people in the world!  Here are just a few famous people with disabilities: —

    • Hans Christian Anderson - Dyslexia
    • Ludwig van Beethoven  - Deaf
    • Alexander Graham Bell - Learning Disability

     

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Stories

What does it mean to be disabled? Read the stories above and gain a clearer sense of the various and myriad challenges faced by those whose lives have been altered since birth or by event.

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