Career
Starkloff became disabled in a car accident in 1959 and subsequently co-founded three organizations:
Paraquad, an independent living center, in 1970, then one of the first ten such federally funded centers;
the National Council on Independent Living, in 1983 (with Marca Bristo and Charlie Carr). And
Starkloff lobbied for legislation for curb cuts and disabled parking, as well as the Americans with Disabilities Acting of 1990.