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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Disabilities”

• Personalisation

  
  Citizenseye — Authority: 145
  Personalisation is a new way to think about how you get care and support Personalisation means finding new ways to give people more choices Personalisation means making sure the right help gets to the right people Personalisation means making sure that everyone knows about the services that can help them. ...
  12 hours ago

• 2 schools to shun Kindle – not easy for the blind to use

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  d According to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Syracuse University, the Kindle can’t be used by the blind because it requires a sighted helper to manipulate the buttons and navigate the menu choices. Thus, the universities won’t adopt the Kindle for their sight-disabled students. The Newsvine article ...
  12 hours ago

• Intel reader for the blind – part 2 – video

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Chris Meadows mentioned this below , but now comes a video of it in operation. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news.
  13 hours ago

• Stressed or Desserts?

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  I’m often amazed at how the mentally challenged community weathers their greatest times of stress.  During my first few years of ministry with Special Gathering, I thought it was because they simply didn’t understand what was happening.  However, over the years, I’ve learned that our members watch the news ...
  13 hours ago

• Delaware DCT Holds that ANC Subsidiaries Subject to Suit under ADA and FMLA

  
  Turtle Talk — Authority: 140
  The case is Peason v. Chugash Governmental Services, Inc. (D. Del.). The materials: Pearson DCT Order Chugash Motion to Dismiss Pearson Opposition to Motion Chugash Reply Brief
  15 hours ago

• Autistic first grader can keep his dog in class

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 527
  Chewey can stay in first grade. A judge in Douglas County, Illinois ruled Tuesday that first grader Kaleb Drew, who has autism, can attend class with Chewey, his service dog. The Villa Grove school district had opposed the dog’s presence, arguing he wasn’t a true service animal, and that other students might be ...
  20 hours ago

• "Oh, mom, leave me alone!"

  
  To The Max — Authority: 512
  Some students at a local college are raking leaves in our neighborhood in exchange for a donation to Habitat for Humanity , a favorite cause of mine. I signed up, and two guys and a girl came over and plowed through our front and backyard. Max was right out there with them. He helped rake. He dumped leaves onto the ...
  1 day ago

• Book Review: That Went Well, Adventures in Caring for My Sister

  
  The Common Room — Authority: 515
  I think I have written before about the time that the children and I were in a large bookstore, the Cherub was with the Equuschick and I was nursing a newborn in my sling, and the feisty and lively FYG was in the care of the HG (Jenny and Pip were seated together in the childrens section, forbidden to move)- when the ...
  1 day ago

• Intel Introduces a Reader – Capture Text and Pictures and Have It Read Back to You

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  We have one more gadget to add to today’s choices, one from Intel that focuses on people with dyslexia, low-vision or blindness or other disabilities.  It reads out lout, connects to your PC does MP3, and more.  Of course it is fully integrated with a USB slot and integrates with your computer to transfer ...
  1 day ago

• Children with learning disabilities out in the cold in Montague

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 489
  Home and School president says school lacking resource teachers By Andrew Brown andrew@peicanada.com Eastern Graphic Nadine Williams is frustrated. She is president of the Home and School Association in Montague, and she is concerned that students with learning disabilities at Montague Consolidated are not ...
  1 day ago

• Live Simply in Humble Contemplation

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 126
  He is a handsome Jamaican whose family migrated from the Northeast to Florida when his parents retired from their work. For a couple of years, I thought Paul was non-verbal.  When I made him angry one Sunday after chapel services, I found that Paul is definitely able to speak.  In fact, even though I was shocked, ...
  1 day ago

• US Health Reform should includes home and community based supports

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 489
  Justice For All Action Network (JFAAN), lobbies Congress on health care reform in a letter to Pelosi The disability community has been advocating for over twenty years for the equitable choice to receive support services in their own homes and communities rather than nursing homes or other institutions.  We believe ...
  1 day ago

• Community Development Worker

  
  Citizenseye — Authority: 145
  Community Development Worker for Black and Age Concern Minority Ethnic Communities in Mental Health Job Ref no 806 Salary £21,258 pro rata per annum Hours 29.5 per week (over 5 days to include Friday morning) We are seeking to appoint a Community Development Worker to work with local Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) ...
  1 day ago

• Clay Aikens National Inclusion Project Working to Benefit Children With Disabilities

  
  gerra730 — Authority: 91
  11/10/2009 THE NATIONAL INCLUSION PROJECT GALA HONORING 2009 CHAMPIONS RAISES OVER $465,000 TO BENEFIT THE INCLUSION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES On October 17, the National Inclusion Project, formerly the Bubel Aiken Foundation, held a gala in Raleigh, NC to honor champions of inclusion. The evening ...
  1 day ago

• Disability Activsm: Reading Rights

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 647
  Reading Rights is a US-based advocacy group that is campaigning to have equal access to electric book formats through text-to-speech on the Amazon Kindle. Their campaign is based around the American Author’s Guild demand that people must either prove their disability to the satisfaction of the Guild (and thus give ...
  1 day ago

• Lint In My Pockets

  
  Disabilities Unlimited — Authority: 113
  So, you go to your doctor’s office and you pay something to the doctor out of your pocket. This is how the term Out-Of-Pocket came to be. Under some plans the deductible can be applied toward your out-of-pocket and some plans  it does not get counted toward it. This would be something you’d want to look into. ...
  1 day ago

• Accidental Baby

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 547
  I have a great deal of misgiving about the attempt of a couple to claim under ACC for the accident of their daughter’s birth. Their daughter’s spina bifida (open spine at birth) was not discovered on ultrasound and, as the parents insist that they would have aborted her, if they had known, they are trying to claim ...
  1 day ago

• More reasons why disability hate crime must be taken seriously

  
  Outside Left — Authority: 119
  If anyone needs confirmation why the abuse of disabledpeople is a major issue they need look no further than a court case in Devon.  A 57-year-old driver at a residential home was jailed for12-and-a-half years for sexually abusing women in his care. All the women were either physically disabled or had ...
  1 day ago

• EP: Sleep With Me At Candle Shore, Part 2

  
  THE MARK TAYLOR CANDLESHORE BLOG — Authority: 125
  In this Episode of the CANDLESHORE PODCAST, Mark Taylor publishes part 2 of a 2 part series (intended for use on a Smartphone) of soothing sounds of the ocean to which you may relax and fall asleep. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 day ago

• Intel introduces new digital book reader for the blind

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Venturebeat has an article looking at the $1,500 Intel Reader portable text-to-speech device Intel has just released. It is the size of a paperback book and can read from files or capture printed text with its built-in digital camera. The Intel Reader is meant specifically for the blind or visually-impaired. ...
  1 day ago

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