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Disney Noncommittal On Adding Characters With Disabilities
TIOCH, Calif. — The mother of a toddler with Down syndrome has made good on her promise to hand deliver a petition to The Walt Disney Studios asking the company to include more characters with disabilities in its movies. But the media conglomerate’s response suggests that any change to the status quo will be a long time coming, if it happens at all. Keston Ott-Dahl and her partner, Andrea, took 17-month-old Delaney and her two older siblings to Disney’s Burbank headquarters late last month to present studio executives with the names of more than 75,000 people who had signed her petition….Read More
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