Decades of hard-won disability rights, ensuring access to education and community living, are now perceived to be under threat from actions taken by the Trump administration. Advocates warn that recent policy shifts by the Education Department and the Department of Justice signal a worrying regression towards a past where individuals with disabilities were marginalized and confined.
"It’s a direct, frontal assault on the rights of people with disabilities to live their lives the way that people who are nondisabled live their lives," stated Selene Almazan, legal director for the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates. "I can't imagine that as a country, that would be something that we would agree we should go back to."
