Learn about issues impacting:

1. Individuals with disabilities are more likely to experience abuse over their lifetime compared to those without disabilities.

2. People with disabilities experience violent crime at twice the rate of people without disabilities.

3. People with disabilities are three times as likely to be sexually assaulted as those without disabilities.

4. In 2008, intimate partners perpetrated 27% of violent crimes against women with disabilities and 1.1% of crimes against men with disabilities.

5. Police are less likely to respond to reported violence against victims with disabilities than they are to reported violence against victims without disabilities. Police respond to 90% of reports by victims without disabilities and 77% of reports by victims with disabilities.

6. A survey conducted by Spectrum Institute Disability and Abuse project found that 70% of respondents with disabilities experienced some form of abuse by an intimate partner, family member, caregiver, acquaintance or stranger.

The wireless remote control was initially invented in for people with limited mobility. An invention that also improved the lives of the elderly and is now a convenience for all of us.

Curbside ramps were designed for people in wheelchairs or motorized scooters, but are now used by parents with strollers, people with shopping carts, bikers, and more to make it easier to transfer from street to sidewalk.

Captions were initially designed for people who were deaf or hard of hearing, but now allow us all to watch videos with sound-off.