Disabilities

Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans Filing For Disability Benefits At Historic Rate

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 05.27.2012

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-- America's newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generatio...

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1 In 3 Young Adults With Autism Have Few Job Prospects, Study Finds

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Peter Bell, Virginia Commonwealth University, Video, Unemployment, Brown School of Social Work, Disabilities, u.s. Department of Education, Job Prospects, Careers, Autism, Paul Shattuck, Carol Schall, Ap, Education News

CHICAGO (AP) — One in 3 young adults with autism have no paid job experience, college or technical schooling nearly seven years after high school gr...

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Turning Wheelchairs Into Hot-Rods

Lori Sokol | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Family Caregivers, Disabled, Women, Caregiving, Loreen Arbus, Social Responsibility, Loreen-Arbus, People-With-Disabilities, Philanthropy, Cerebral-Palsy, Philanthropists, Disabilities, Cerebral Palsy, United-Cerebral-Palsy, Disability, Caregiver Support, Home Caregiver, United Cerebral Palsy, Impact News

Loreen Arbus has made it her mission to honor the work of the caregiver, 'the unsung heroines," whose kindness comes in all manners of form to help transform lives, yet who are still so severely unappreciated.

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What Disabled People Need Is Respect

Christina Patterson | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Disability, Police, Blindness, Raoul Moat, David Rathband, Disabilities, People With Disabilities, Impact News

For David Rathband, it took a few seconds for an unemployed bouncer to puncture his eyeballs, with 200 pellets from two separate gunshots, and it took a few months for his marriage to unravel, and it took a few more months for him to decide that he'd rather be dead.

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Medicaid: Help in Hard Times

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.25.2012

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Medicaid is vital -- it provides hundreds of millions of children who are poor or have disabilities with comprehensive health coverage enabling them to become productive, taxpaying members of society.

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Handicap This!: 'Reality Show' Aims To Dispel Myths About Cerebral Palsy

AP | By SHARON COHEN | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Cerebral Palsy Reality Show, Mike Berkson, Disabilities, Skokie, Handicap This, Theater, Tim Wambach, Chicago Impact, Celebral Palsy, Chicago News

SKOKIE, Ill. -- In the hushed darkness of a crowded theater, the spotlight finds a young man in a wheelchair at center stage, his hands clenched, his ...

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Philanthropist Climbs Mount Kilimanjaro With 7 Disabled Athletes

HuffingtonPost.com | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Disabled Athletics, Video, Mount Kilimanjaro Charity Climb, Herta Von Stiegel, Charity, Disabilities, People With Disabilities, The Mountain Within, Enham, Disability, Mount Kilimanjaro, Impact News

When Herta von Stiegel decided to commit her 50th birthday to climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for charity, she could've done what most daredevil philanthro...

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Sex and Disabilities: Do You Know How to Communicate?

Amy Shiner | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Disabilities, Sex With Disabilities, Disabilities Sex, Handicaps, Sex With Physical Handicaps, Sex, Sex With Physical Disabilities, Handicaps Sex, Sex With Handicaps, Gay Voices News

Everyone is human. Everyone has setbacks, weaknesses, and strengths, and instead of trying to do the impossible of "fixing" a disability, look toward the ability.

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Trauma and Joy: A Thanksgiving Story

Larry Strauss | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Autism Children, Living With Disabilities, Disabilities, Thanksgiving Blessings, Austism, Thanksgiving 2011, Thanksgiving, Education News

Sometimes my students ask me why I became a teacher. No simple answer. It was a combination of things, probably starting when, though I am three-and-a-half years younger than my brother, I became the older brother.

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Geri-ism #2: Unmasking the Real Disabilities

Geri Jewell | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Judge William Adams, The Ugly Laws, People With Disabilities, Disabilities, Abusing People With Disabilities, Disabled People, Healthy Living Health News, Mental Health, Healthy Living News

Let's unmask the real disabilities that threaten all of us. They are not cerebral palsy, or being wheelchair-bound, or having AIDS; they are hatred, prejudice, abuse, deception, false pride, hypocrisy, greed and despair.

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Saved By Rock 'n' Roll: Meet The Arts of Life Band

Chicago Reader | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Arts of Life, Developmentally Disabled, Chicago Impact, Disabilities, Arts of Life Band, Chicago News

Jean Wilson, sporting a foam shark hat whose toothy mouth flapped as she moved, strutted toward the Magic Hat Stage of the North Coast Music Festival....

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WATCH: 'Breaking Bad' Actor Gives Sweet Surprise To Woman With Disability

Posted 12.27.2011

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Moiri Rossi of Jacksonville, Fla., received her "American Dream" Wednesday. The National Disability Institute announced that 24-year-old Rossi, who...

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WATCH: Man Born Without Arms Plays Guitar With Feet, Inspires Students

Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Video, Disabilities, John Carroll High School, Adapted Music, Tony Melendez, Disabled Musicians, Impact News

Tony Melendez, an armless man whose guitar performance has spanned the globe, struck an inspiring chord with Florida students when he shared his music...

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What Does America Stand For?

Mike Lux | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Medicaid, Disabilities, Budget, Ayn Rand, Paul Ryan, Family, Republicans, Physical-Disability, Developmental Disability, Politics News

My brother Kevin is developmentally and physically disabled because of brain damage he had suffered from child abuse. He is the kind of person Republicans would leave by the side of the road in order to "protect tax loopholes for CEOs who fly corporate jets."

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The Bitter Truth

Timothy P. Shriver | Posted 08.24.2011

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How is it possible after all the steps we've taken that a massive dignity deficit still remains for people with disabilities? The bitter truth is that subtle but persistent discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities remains rampant around the world.

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For People With Disabilities In Two States, Opposite Fates

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Group Homes, Housing, Disabilities, Stanley-Ligas, Disability Rights, Chicago, Addiction, Los Angeles City Council, Los Angeles, Disability Housing, Impact News

This story was reported in collaboration with our partners at Patch.com. When people ask Stanley Ligas, a 43-year-old with Down syndrome, why he wa...

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White House to Decide if Treaty for the Blind Moves Forward

James Love | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Copyright Treaty for the Blind, WIPO Treaty for the Blind, Copyright, Disabilities, Wipo, Disability Rights, Intellectual Property Laws, Intellectual Property, Treaty for the Blind, Copyright Laws, Politics News

Beginning June 15, the World Intellectual Property Organization begins nine days of negotiations on possible copyright treaties. The first days will be spent on a proposed treaty on exceptions to copyright for persons who are blind or have other disabilities.

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Giving Americans With Disabilities The Chance To Work

Jim Gibbons | Posted 08.02.2011

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For the 54 million Americans with disabilities, the hardest part of making a living often isn't succeeding at work -- it's convincing employers to give you a chance.

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Would You Get the Same Care as Gabrielle Giffords?

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Insurance Industry, Gabrielle Giffords Recovery, Disabilities, Disability, Health Insurance, Rehabilitation, Gabrielle Giffords Rehabilitation, Health Care, Home News

The rehabilitation of a person following a stroke or brain injury is an intensive process that can take years and involves numerous people, but the reality is that many people do not get the intensity of care they need.

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Questioning Common Assumptions About The Disabled

Richard C. Senelick, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Our society devalues a person with a disability and assumes that they could not possibly want the same things as an able-bodied person. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Disabled 3-Year Old Found Dead On School Bus

| KTLA News | Posted 05.27.2011

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ALISO VIEJO (KTLA) -- A three-year-old child was found dead on a school bus in Aliso Viejo Friday. Detectives say the bus driver had just dropped o...

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Illinois Diver Helps Disabled Vets Defy Gravity Underwater

The Huffington Post | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Elliott first saw the transformation in his daughter, who was born blind. Frustrated, and teased by other kids at her mainstream school, she threw...

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House GOP Budget Proposal Would Slash Low-Income Housing Aid

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Amid the worst housing crisis in generations, House Republicans have put forward a federal budget proposal that would significantly cut ...

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Are We Living In Modern America Or Ancient Sparta?

Yolanda Reid Chassiakos | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Disabilities, Budget Cuts, Health Care Disability, Disability America, Disability Heath Care, Disabled, Health Care America, Heath Care Compassion, Health Care Reform, Disability Compassion, Disability, Compassion Health Care, Specially-Abled, Healthy Living News

The last thirty years have seen our mentally ill thrown onto the streets to shiver behind their shopping carts and beg for money to buy food. Will we see our disabled Americans meet the same fate?

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When You Can't Say 'No'

Yolanda Reid Chassiakos | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Caregiving, Sexual Assault, Disabilities, Sexual Abuse Residential Care, Nursing Home Abuse, Crime, Caring for Disabled, Nursing Home, Family Caregiver, Special Needs, Caregivers, Healthy Living News

Videotapes of men having non-consensual sexual relations with disabled women in residential care have recently surfaced and are being investigated. Sexual assault is a crime and a tragedy. And one of our greatest fears.

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