To the editor, People with disabilities have rights too!  Americans with Disabilities need the CRPD.  The Convention on the Rights of Peoples with Disabilities is a United Nations Treaty. As a disabled veteran I support the ratification of the CRPD. I have personally lobbied the Senate to ratify the treaty as the president of the Disabled Students in Higher Education. DSHE recently traveled to Washington DC to speak with Senator Roy Blunt about the rights of disabled Americans and the CRPD. DSHE argued that the academic standards in tests such as the LSAT, GRE, CBASE, and the GMAT are unfair. UMKC Disabled students trying to gain admittance to post-secondary education are kept out of Universities around the nation. The UMKC Testing Center test administrators often told to deny accommodations needed to … Read entire article »