Yesterday we highlighted a new program in Arizona that put high school students with disabilities in competitive athletics alongside and against their peers. But football fields, race tracks, and golf courses are not the only arenas for inclusion of people with disabilities in extracurricular activities that help teens build self-esteem, embrace uniqueness, and adopt a [...]
The Arizona school system has partnered with the state’s Special Olympics organization on a unique program that brings students with disabilities together with other high school students in competitive athletics. Launched just this past June, the Unified Sports® program was constructed as an opportunity for students to interact with peers with whom they share school [...]
There are a myriad of worthy stories from this year’s United Nations’ International Day of Persons with Disabilities in addition to what was posted yesterday. While it isn’t possible to cover all of them, there were two major announcements from December 3 commemorations that initially slipped through the cracks of the time-cyberspace continuum that merit [...]
The disability.gov blog is a content-rich, well-organized resource administered by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability. It averages about 10-15 posts each month on topics like housing, education, civil rights, transportation, and three distinct categories for information about employment and career options for people with disabilities. Click on the “No Boundaries Photo Project” [...]