In 1990 the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was established to ensure that people with disabilities would not be discriminated and so they would have assess to the same opportunities as all Americans. Looking back at how we treated people with disabilities, you can clearly understand why the law needed to be enacted. Denying people who are different or who may have disabilities opportunities and access is an ugly part of our history in the US. How we refer to them, what we say about them when we think they can’t hear us, how we have treated them, and how we have ignored their needs has not always been our finest hour. Enacting the ADA was supposed to make it better. But did it?

My guest this week, Mike Lantz has lead an interesting life. Join me Tuesday as we hear Mike’s story and get one man’s opinion of what it’s been like to live with a disability yesterday and today.

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