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I begin this paper with what may seem a strange and irrelevant confession. I believed in reincarnation until I was 16.1 thought everyone did. I got straightened out one day when my mother, my attendant and I were looking at a magazine cartoon which prompted my attendant to say, "Humph! Whoever drew that must believe in reincarnation." I said, "Doesn't everybody?" Mother said, "Carolyn, where did you get such an idea?" I said, "Gee, I don't know, am I wrong?" She assured me I was. I gave up the belief without a whimper. I did check with a couple of friends to see if they believed in it. They had never heard of it. I decided it was my mistake and put it away. That was in 1951.In 1975 and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, almost everyone in the West knows what it is and many believe. One of these is a friend of mine; a rehabilitation administrator who, in a quiet moment one day, began to question her own motivations for doing what she was doing. She subsequently resigned her job, cast off her material possessions, and took a trip to the far East. Her studies since have led her to a strong belief in the principle of reincarnation.

To identify barriers to, strategies for, and supports for psychological services for clients with disabilities. Design: Mail survey. Participants: Four hundred eighty-one psychologists who were American Psychological Association members. Measure: A survey that ascertained psychologists' perceptions of access barriers, success factors, and support needs in providing services to clients with disabilities, as well as experiences with bias or sensitivity. Results: Barriers to service provision include funding, accessibility, lack of provider knowledge, limited training in disability issues and services, and lack of sensitivity. Conclusions: Additional training for psychologists in disability issues, legal requirements regarding public accommodations, and disability resources is needed. Psychologists with disabilities may be an important resource.Nondisabled Americans just do not understand disabled ones.-Shapiro (1993) Principle E of the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (American Psychological Association [APA], 2002) indicates that psychologists need to be aware of individual differences, including disability. Unfortunately, disability is not an individual "difference" that is generally acknowledged with comfort in American society. People with disabilities continue to experience documented discrimination, either blatant or subtle, in employment, housing, education, leisure, and health care as a result of their difference, the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA, 1990) notwithstanding (Atkinson & Hackett, 1995;Mackelprang & Salsgiver, 1999;Swain, Finkelstein, French, & Oliver, 1993). These discriminatory experiences are based on societal attitudes that negatively differentiate and stereotype people with disabilities

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