Walt Disney World Embraces Guests of All Shapes, Sizes, and Abilities

Nearly every large family trip includes someone with a special need!" Walt Disney World is indisputably a favorite destination for those with special needs." Much more than a handicaps and wheelchairs" guide, PassPorter Walt Disney World For Your Special Needs provides detailed information on Disneys accommodations for a wide and inclusive range of special needs."

Ann Arbor, MI (PRWEB) August 25, 2005 -- Americas most popular resort destination makes it to the top of the charts for many reasons-a hug from Mickey, a childhood revisited, a cleaner, safer, friendlier world....

Chief among them is Disneys hospitality. Every visitor is a guest, and Disneys parks, restaurants and hotels strive to embrace everyone. Its hardly a one-size-fits-all world at Disneys Orlando property, yet everyone seems to fit. Sometimes these efforts are obvious-youll see more wheelchairs and electric scooters in Disney parks than youre likely to see anywhere else unless its a medical center or retirement community. More often though, its the invisible-accommodations available for those who know to ask:

- devices to help a hearing- or vision-impaired guest enjoy a show

- theme park maps and translation devices in six languages

- Special assistance" for children with autism or ADD

- a sheltered spot to breastfeed an infant

- chefs and waiters schooled to serve a wide spectrum of special dietary needs

- rides sized to fit guests of various disabilities and dimensions...

You could fill a volume, and indeed, thats what PassPorter Travel Press and authors Deb Wills and Debra Martin Koma have done in a new guidebook. PassPorters Walt Disney World for Your Special Needs" delivers more than 400 pages of in-depth information for Walt Disney World vacationers of all abilities. Just released in August 2005, this new addition to the PassPorter Travel Press catalog offers in-depth coverage of every ride, attraction and resort on Walt Disney World property from a distinctive special needs" perspective. Consider the typical multi-generational family planning a vacation-pregnant and nursing moms, parents with infants, cousins keeping Kosher" or Halal, grandparents with declining mobility, a child with food allergies, an uncle struggling with obesity, a teenaged daughter recently converted" to vegetarianism... everyday people coping with everyday needs. And Disney World does more to accommodate their many needs than nearly anyplace else.

To bring this publishing vision to pass, PassPorter recruited authors Deb Wills and Debra Martin Koma, respectively founder/publisher/editor and senior editor of http://www.allearsnet.com, the most often cited and respected independent guide to Walt Disney World on the Internet. As publisher Dave Marx explained, We knew Deb and Debra would be perfect for the job. Their input as expert peer reviewers for our 'regular Walt Disney World guidebook has been invaluable. Debs site already contains many valuable articles addressing what we consider 'special needs, and AllEarsNets sensitive, comprehensive, accurate, and eminently readable approach to travel information was just what we needed."

Look for PassPorters Walt Disney World for Your Special Needs" (ISBN 1-58771-018-8) from booksellers nationwide and online.

Deb Wills is the creator of Debs Unofficial Walt Disney World Information Guide (WDWIG) (http://allearsnet.com). Over the past eight years, it has become one of the most up-to-date, independent resources about Walt Disney World on the Internet.

Debra Martin Koma is a freelance writer who shares her passion for the Orlando resort with readers of AllEarsNet and its weekly companion newsletter ALL EARS through feature articles and restaurant reviews. Komas articles have also appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Travel-Holiday magazine, and the airline in-flight magazine, TWA Ambassador.

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