Coinciding with the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the passage of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Institute for Human Centered Design (IHCD) announces the Allan R. Meyers Memorial research project and documentary film “The Changing Reality of Disability in America: 2020.”
Collectively, the documentary and white paper will tell a data-driven and humanistic account about the experience of disability in America today. Inevitably, this is partly a story about what happens when the context fails and higher rates of disability are the by-product. A key focus of IHCD’s quantitative and qualitative research will be on people in socially and economically dis-advantaged communities from children to elders, telling the story about what works, and shar-ing examples of what it takes to create environments that minimize functional limitations and seamlessly deliver both a sense of belonging and choice.