Winter was just getting started the last time we looked at health and fitness programs for people with disabilities. The season has been relatively mild by New England standards, and people are sure to be catching spring fever as temperatures top 60 degrees over the next couple of days. So, with the opportunity to get [...]
We start the week picking up on where we left off last Friday, looking at how Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month is being observed in cities and town across the United States. Much like the people they are supporting, each community’s activities have their own unique flavor. So far, the best visuals can be found in [...]
On February 26, 1987, President Ronald Reagan designated March as the National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. The language of the official Proclamation indicates that, even in this time, before the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, Americans were changing their perceptions about people with disabilities. It lauded efforts by the federal government and the private sector [...]
Was it really only just this past Monday we wished for a way to watch recaps of presentations from the 27th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference being held this week at California State University, Northridge (CSUN)? Well, we didn’t have to wait too long for that request to be fulfilled, thanks to [...]
Microsoft’s Daniel Hubbell and Gary Moulton have been road-tripping to the 27th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference being held this week at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), but don’t panic if all the hype leading up to Sunday’s Academy Awards and NBA All-Star Game has kept you from checking in on their [...]
A Chicago-area man is finally getting the opportunity to learn what it feels like to live in his own home, following a victory in federal court that enables people with disabilities to use their government support payments to move into community housing. David Cicarelli was the lead plaintiff in a 2005 class action suit seeking [...]
A Huffington Post columnist made an impassioned plea to parents of children with disabilities in her Wednesday column, urging them to consider the long-term benefits of including children with disabilities in schools and other mainstream social activities. Carla Lohr can talk about what it’s like for a child with disabilities from two different perspectives: her [...]
There has been a new wave of British television shows about the English aristocracy reaching American shores of late. And while “Downton Abbey” is garnering most of the buzz for its nighttime soap-opera story lines and ornate set decoration, another BBC drama is looking to ride its coattails to success, with one of its actresses [...]
WCAX-TV reporter Keith McGilvery filed a two-part report last week that demonstrated the social and academic benefits of the college and university programs made possible by the Transition and Postsecondary Program for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID) grant which, as we posted yesterday, is in danger of having its funding dropped from the federal budget [...]
Katy Hopkins of the U.S. News and World Report wrote last week that President Obama’s 2013 budget proposal did not include funding for the Transition and Postsecondary Program for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID) grant, raising questions about the future of this experimental program at its midway point. Since the 2010 fiscal year, TPSID grants [...]