ABSTRACT
This chapter acknowledges that for the most part, specialized policy design has taken the high ground in attempting to redress historical and even current discrimination and disadvantage. Disability policy authors building on affirmative action, civil rights, and antidiscrimination initiatives launched by other groups, proceed from the tenet that disability-explicit and embedded policy advances equity, improvements in participation, and supportive services for those who fall under the eligibility criteria. Disability-implicit policy, by suggesting what should not be accomplishes this same aim, branding bodies as responsible for what may be beyond their control. Policy skepticism seems not only warranted but essential to the promotion of informed change. The chapter explores what other group protected by rights policies would accept rights being trumped by the claim of economic scarcity. Resource distribution policies guide the provisions of designer disability services and resources assigning benefits to legitimate disability park frequenters based on the hierarchy of worth.
