Fact: With the right rehabilitation team by your side, you can get back to your economic and social activities, optimally.

Fact: A prosthesis will not last a lifetime. As you age, your body will change. You may gain or lose weight. Or, your muscle or bone mass may decrease or increase. This will require new sizing, manufacturing and fitting of the prosthetic.

Fact: People with disabilities go to school, get married, work, have families, do laundry, grocery shop, laugh, cry, pay taxes, get angry, have prejudices, vote, plan and dream like everyone else.

Fact: Everyone can contribute to change. You can help remove barriers by:

• Understanding the need for accessible parking and leaving it for those who need it
• Encouraging participation of people with disabilities in community activities by using accessible meeting and event sites
• Understanding children’s curiosity about disabilities and people who have them
• Advocating a barrier-free environment
• Speaking up when negative words or phrases are used about disability
• Writing producers and editors a note of support when they portray someone with a disability as a “regular person” in the media
• Accepting people with disabilities as individuals capable of the same needs and feelings as yourself, and hiring qualified disabled persons whenever possible