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Sue Popkin, co-director of the Disability Equity Policy Initiative at The Urban Institute, has Sjogren’s Disease and uses a cane for mobility.
Popkin frames the paternalistic attitude that too many
planners and designers have toward disability inclusion and implementation.
“Our work has a community advisory board with a diverse
range of disabilities. It enriches what that data shows,” she said.
“The planning community doesn’t realize that they must
include people with disabilities.
They don’t know that the census results in a huge
undercount of people with disabilities because it doesn’t count incarcerated,
institutionalized or homeless people.
It leaves out people with psychiatric disabilities and
many with intermittent conditions.”
Involve people with disabilities in the design and
planning processes from the outset, including research design.
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