Excerpt from: Lawrence Journal World (click for full article)
Kansas University's progress on making its campus accessible for students with disabilities can be measured in numbers. For instance, so far it has checked off 21 of 49 accessibility recommendations made last year by a KU task force.
But student Elizabeth Boresow says she can also see it in a shift in attitude that she's perceived during her five years at KU.
"There was an attitude of, 'We don't want to deal with disability, and we don't have to unless they make us,' " Boresow said.
Now, she says, things are different. A sign on her dorm room that once labeled it with the negatively charged word "handicapped" now uses the more positive "accessible." Boresow, who has autism, lives there with a roommate who has a visual impairment.
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