Prof Presents Disability Report in Washington

Despite accounting for many ethnic, age, and gender groups, the U.S. Census Bureau’s data on the current population fails to include statistics regarding the disabled population. Prof. Andrew Houtenville and fellow researchers at Cornell are seeking to alleviate this absence with the second annual Disability Status Report for 2006, presented last Wednesday in Washington D.C. to a diverse audience of about 50 Capitol Hill staffers, disability-related agencies, the media and advocacy groups. Houtenville is the director of Cornell’s Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability