Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!104!419!Rich.Harper From: Rich.Harper@f419.n104.z1.fidonet.org (Rich Harper) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Technical Aid & Disability Message-ID: <10515@bunker.UUCP> Date: 3 Mar 90 05:07:06 GMT Sender: news@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: Rich.Harper@f419.n104.z1.fidonet.org Distribution: misc Organization: FidoNet node 1:104/419 - The Home Board BBS, Westminster CO Lines: 31 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Index Number: 7064 And this should also include Jack. > DP's are a GROWTH INDUSTRY, probably the largest growth industry > this little planet has ever seen. > Because like other opportunists & entrepreneurs, they saw > unfulfilled needs and innovations that were not being satisfied > by the traditionalists. > The problem is -- how are any of the suppliers going to reach > there target audiences, within tight budget limits? Sorry for the long quote. But there are several things that can be done by the small companies. I hate to keep bringing it up, but the Olympics for the Disabled are a good example of what is happening. More and more companies are signing on to help sponser all of the different games both summer and winter for the above reason. People are finding out that the "DP's" are a growing segment of the population that has been neglected. And by sponsering either a participant or a set of games or so, they are becoming associated with this "forgotten" segment of the public. I can only hope that more of the small companies would band together and put their small budgets into a fund and fund one larger fund for the disabled. They do it for both abled people in races and games as well as cars in the motor races, so why not the disabled segment? <> -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!104!419!Rich.Harper Internet: Rich.Harper@f419.n104.z1.fidonet.org