Disability

In years past, an individual with a disability in the United States and in most western nations faced poor job prospects, financial hardship, problems with transportation and even building access.  Thanks to efforts on the part of disability rights advocates, disabled individuals have more opportunities and legal rights than their forbearers could have ever imagined.

In the United States, Social Security disability provides individuals who are unable to work with income benefits and medical care. Nations around the world have similar programs to support those affected by a disability.

While a physical or mental health disability will continue to create challenges for affected individuals, legal barriers to employment, housing and opportunity have been greatly reduced.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Disability”

• Is Cast Offs good news for disabled actors?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The C4 mockumentary promises to show a new side to disability, but will it mean programme-makers create better roles for actors like me? Imagine if we stuck a paper bag on the head of Al Pacino and scrawled the word "disability" on it. Would Pacino have chosen to become an actor under such conditions? Yet this is the ...
  11 hours ago

• ACE Website Connects Veterans to Higher Education

  
  Disabled World — Authority: 147
  As the nation prepares to observe Veterans Day, the American Council on Education (ACE) today launched TodaysGIBill.org, a comprehensive college guidance web site to provide information and inspire veterans to enroll and succeed in higher education.
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• Half of adults living in poverty have a disability

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 490
  Income supports for the disabled are inadequate Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows By Mike Ervin, Chicago Tribune Hard economic times are even harder when you have a disability. But poverty and disability don’t have to be synonymous if we design our policies well. A new report from ...
  14 hours ago

• Disability Coalition Supports Health Reform that Includes Home and Community Based Services and Supports

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 131
  From the JFA Moderator: Last Friday, November 6, in anticipation of the House vote on Health Reform, the Justice For All Action Network (JFAAN), a coalition of diability-lead organizations and allies, sent the following letter to every member of the House of Representatives.  >>> For More Information on ...
  17 hours ago

• Interfaith Coalition Supports Long Term Services and Supports in Health Reform

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 131
  From the JFA Moderator: Last Friday, November 6, the Interfaith Disability Advocacy Coalition (IDAC) sent a letter (read full text below) to Congress supporting the inclusion of two important long-term services and supports provisions in health care reform, the Community First Choice (CFC) Option and the CLASS ...
  17 hours ago

• Monday, It’s Not So Bad

  
  Eternal Flux — Authority: 127
  It’s Monday and I’m not complaining. I have a job again and I am quite happy about that. I don’t have to worry about my bills getting paid. I don’t even have to worry about trying to get on social security disability just to have something coming in the door. I could possibly qualify having BPD and all, but ...
  17 hours ago

• Disability Coalition Applauds Health Care Legislation that expands coverage for People with Disabilities

  
  JFActivist — Authority: 131
  Press Release from the Justice For All Action Network (11/9/09): DisabilityCoalition Applauds Health Care Legislation thatexpands coverage for People with Disabilities HealthCare Reform one of 12 items on Coalition Agenda (WashingtonD.C.) -- TheJustice for All Action Network ...
  17 hours ago

• How to appreciate your client group

  
  The Social Work Blog — Authority: 430
  This has happened to me before. Im presently sat at home typing thisrather than in the office because in my attempt to be Kobe Bryant Iended up sprawled on the floor clutching a badly sprained ankle.Thats not what has happened before though. What has happened to me before is appreciating in avery small way what ...
  17 hours ago

• The Transcontinental Disability Choir: Pleased To Meet You!

  
  Bitch Blogs — Authority: 140
  Were FWD (Feminists With Disabilities), and were excited to be guest blogging at Bitch, bringing discussions about the intersection between disability and feminism to a larger audience. Over the next eight weeks, well be talking about the depiction of disability in pop culture, how society relates to people with ...
  22 hours ago

• Who won this case: Boss mistakenly denies disability break

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 138
  An employee is granted a disability accommodation, and all goes well until a substitute boss mistakenly revokes the accommodation. Who won this real-life court case? The facts: An employee who was being treated for cancer suffered from dry mouth and throat as a side effect of the treatment, and had to ...
  1 day ago

• Keeping My Hands Free

  
  The Digital Awakening — Authority: 121
  New acquisition – Jabra BT2035 Bluetooth headset. Technology brings welcome relief to people like me who have lost functional use of our limbs. My legs are extremely weak. My arms are strong. My hand function is limited. I use a wheelchair for mobility. Answering the phone while on the move is not an option. I ...
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• Sex and The Disabled

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 596
  Most people do not believe that disabled people have sexual desires, so in return it is hard for some disabled people to deal with their own sexuality. The truth is most of all people experience some sexual desire on some level. Sex is a very normal and healthy desire and activity, but even in this modern age sex is a ...
  1 day ago

• Why Does Disability Insurance Make Such A Big Difference For Me?

  
  LifeInsurance website and Blog — Authority: 130
  Disability Insurance Guided "To Dos" Disability Insurance is a simple insurance cover that makes sure that when you are unable to work due to disability you are not affected by huge financial losses. There are a number of companies offering these insurance cover. It is, thus, pertinent that you do some ...
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• Acquired Brain Injury — In Pursuit of Self-Esteem Part 3 of 3

  
  Second Chance to Live — Authority: 118
  Please read Part 1 and Part 2 for context. Thank you. I slowly began to realize that I needed to be for myself, but not against my fellows. I began to realize that I did not have to see my circumstances and experiences in extremes, but rather as part of my learning process. I began to realize that I could ...
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• Recovery, Scoring and ESA…

  
  Into the system... — Authority: 106
  It’s been a strange week really. I seem to have spent the week being confronted with the fact I’m still a lot more ill than I thought I was. On Wednesday I had an appointment with Dr B. He’s another GP at my local practice and as Dr N is on holiday for two weeks I had to make do with him. He’s okay, but a ...
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• Sympathy by Jordan Castillo Price

  
  Elisa - My reviews and Ramblings — Authority: 140
  Due to the time of release, Hallowen, and the author, Jordan Castillo Price and her vampires and psycops, I was expecting something "paranormal" from this seasonal novella, and instead, to my surprise and delight, it was a very nice, and normal, romance, with a good love story. Tony was in a bad accident and now, ...
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• HUNGRY

  
  Meta Watershed — Authority: 125
  (Maggie Jochild at Bean Hollow Beach near Pescadero, California, i980) HUNGRY When Liza found out I had lost 85 pounds over the last two years without knowing it, certainly without trying to, she instantly said "No wonder you write about food all the time. Indeed. I have been starving in many ways. Fat ...
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• Once Again, Jail and Bail Fundraisers aren’t cool

  
  Knitting Clio — Authority: 112
  As I wrote back in April , fundraisers that “arrest” and “jail” volunteers for fundraising purposes are tasteless and outrageous.  Imagine my shock and dismay when I arrived at church this morning to find that the rector  has agreed to have a “warrant” put out for a fundraiser for Muscular Dystrophy ...
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• The PACER Center - A Parent Training and Information Center

  
  Disabled World — Authority: 147
  The PACER Center is a parent information and training center for families of children and young people with disabilities whose young ones are between the ages of birth and twenty-one years of age. The center is located in Minneapolis and serves people from across America to include families in Minnesota.
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• The artificial hand that can feel - CNN.com

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 140
    The artificial hand that can feel - CNN.com
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