Barack has always stood up for the rights of American's with Disabilities. His comprehensive agenda to empower individuals with disabilities fits in with the campaign's overarching message of equalizing opportunities for all Americans. In addition to reclaiming America's global leadership on this issue by becoming a signatory to -- and having the Senate ratify -- the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the plan has four parts, designed to provide lifelong supports and resources to Americans with disabilities.Watch this video of him speaking on this issue in tonight's debate:
I do want to just point out that autism, for example, or other special needs will require some additional funding if we are going to get serious in terms of research, that is something that every family that advocates on behalf of disabled children talk about, and if we have an across the board spending freeze, we're not going to be able to do it. That's an example I think of the kind of use of the scalpel that we want to make sure that we're funding some of those programs.
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