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The most significant issue facing the disability community is access to higher systems of education of a broad scale. I would like to see the importance our nation has placed on Title IX enforcement across the board be used to elevate the need for equitable access to assistive technology the disability community. As with all other protected classes, the disability community has the legal right to demand high institutions of learning provide them with the appropriate resources, however, all too often the quality and quantity of what is provided is simply a function of the whims of an individual college administration. As with Title IX and the issues now being discusses surrounding the need for more diversity and the end of micro-aggressions,

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