Hundreds of people turned out on the steps of the Capitol building in Atlanta last Thursday with umbrellas in hand and a single purpose in mind: to get the state to do more to help people with disabilities in the state of Georgia. February 16 was Georgia’s 14th Annual Disability Day, and while the rain [...]
Congratulations to Assistiveware. The Netherlands-based company announced yesterday that its Proloquo2Go smartphone application won the 2011 “Best App Ever” award in the Special Needs category. While the award name suits the hyperbolic nature of online culture, the process by which the award winners are determined is kept pretty pure — especially by online awards standards [...]
An Arkansas blogger is calling attention to inequities at voting stations in the community where she resides; which she says government funds have already been allocated to correct and are in violation of federal law. Elaine Canady blogs about issues affecting people with disabilities for the Helena Daily World in Helena, Arkansas, a town with [...]
Over the past couple of months, we’ve marked the progress people with disabilities have made in a number of countries with regards to career training and job opportunities; from a new employment rights’ treaty in Israel to hiring increases in China, news across the globe indicates progress is being made toward inclusion of these people [...]
Since it’s Valentine’s Day, let’s dispense with the usual discussions of career training and employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and look at a story about what truly makes life matter: love. PBS NewsHour closed last Thursday’s program with an interview of Rachel Simon (below), author of the 2011 New York Times bestseller, The Story [...]
Abilities Expo kicks off its series of 2012 events at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, February 17-19. The nation’s largest event for people with disabilities is expecting more than 3,000 individuals with disabilities, their family members, caregivers, health care professionals, and others to attend, according to the press release. For more than 30 [...]
It’s been a while since we’ve looked at Disability.gov, the website managed by the Labor Department’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). Working in conjunction with 21 federal agencies, the site provides people with disabilities, their families and caregivers, as well as educators and employers with comprehensive information for services and programs available in the [...]
Two stories from the West Coast in the news this week demonstrate how including people with disabilities in regular classroom settings help prepare them to live their lives more independently and, just as importantly, help others accept these people into the mainstream. The University of California, Los Angeles, is the latest institution of higher education [...]
The Campaign for Disability Employment (CDE) announced the launch of its second nationwide video contest on Tuesday. The competition invites submissions built around the organization’s “What can YOU do?” campaign to educate the public about the value people with disabilities bring to the workforce. Both individual and groups of filmmakers can submit videos of 1-3 [...]
The ReelAbilities Film Festival makes its Boston debut tomorrow. Thanks to The Boston Jewish Film Festival and a host of other sponsors, film buffs in the Boston area have a chance to see six films over the next week that tell powerful stories, both narrative and documentary, about the worlds people with disabilities inhabit. Correspondent [...]