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New Study Shows Internet Helps Community Lives of Disabled
WASHINGTON, May 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A Harris Poll online survey released
at the U.S. Capitol today confirms that people with disabilities trail other
Americans in their participation in the lives of their communities -- but finds
the Internet is playing an increasingly important role in reducing this gap.
The survey was conducted by Harris for the National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.)
and sponsored by Aetna U.S. Healthcare.
"Online opportunities are expanding the horizons of people with disabilities,"
Harris Poll Chairman Humphrey Taylor told the hundreds of disability advocates,
leaders of national organizations, and more than 20 members of Congress
attending the event. "The Internet appears to be a powerful counterweight
to social isolation." Forty-eight percent of people with disabilities say
the Internet has significantly improved their quality of life, compared to 27
percent of those without disabilitities. Computer users with disabilities
reported spending nearly twice as many hours online and using e-mail as others
did.
Brewster Thackeray
National Organization on Disability
202-293-5960
ww.nod.org (sic)
___________________________________________________________________________
Carol Boyer
Project Associate
RESNA Technical Assistance Project
cboyer@resna.org <mailto:cboyer@resna.org>
703/524-6686, ext. 309
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