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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community -April 2015
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. Each month, we look through the searches on our blog and through the information requests made by our patrons who speak Spanish and … Continue reading
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Tagged African Americans, android, Apps, Asian Americans, benefits of recreation, community, cultures, depression, Disabilities, disability, education, employment, European Americans, health, health promotion, Hispanics, Latinos, leisure generated meanings, lesiure, mental health, mental illness, minorities, National Institute on Aging, neurological disabilities, NIA, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Research, occupational therapy, OT, people with disabilities, physical activity, Positive Activity Jackpot, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, psychiatric disabilities, psychiatry, psychology, PTSD, recreation therapy, social impact, soldiers, Spanish, Spanish-language, stress, technology, therapeutic recreation, veterans
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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. Each month, we look through the searches on our blog and through the information requests made by our patrons who speak Spanish and … Continue reading
Posted in Publications, Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged African American Children, African American youth, ASL, blindness, children, children with visual disabilities, communication, cultural competency, Disabilities, disability, education, employment, english, families, family, health, health and wellness, Hispanics, interventions, Latino Children, Latino youth, Latinos, minorities, NARIC, NIDRR, NIDRR research, obesity, people with disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, rehabilitation, rehabilitation readiness tool, Spanish, Trilingual, visual disabilities, visual impairments, vocational rehabilitation, VR, wellness, youth
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White House Disability Community Call for February 2014
February’s White House Disability Community Call dealt with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and how it affects people with disabilities. The ACA is important to people with disabilities because it allows access to coverage to individuals who may have previously … Continue reading
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Tagged aca, Affordable Care Act, children, Children's Health Insurance Program, CHIP, conference call, Disabilities, disability, families, health, health insurance, insurance, medicaid, NARIC, NASUAD, National Association of States United for Aging and Disabilities, NIDRR, people with disabilities, SHIP, State Health Insurance Programs, White House, White House Disability Community Call
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Participants Needed for a Health Information Needs Study
The Model System Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC), which is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), is conducting a study on the health information needs of African Americans and Latinos with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Currently, … Continue reading
Glaucoma Awareness and the Importance of Eye Health
January is National Glaucoma Awareness Month. Currently, 2.7 million people in the United States over age 40 have glaucoma—a group of eye diseases that damage the optic nerve and destroy eyesight. The National Eye Institute projects this number will reach … Continue reading
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Tagged african american, caucasian, events, eye, eye diseases, eye exam, eye health, facebook, glaucoma, glaucoma awareness, glaucoma awareness month, glaucoma awareness month events, Glaucoma Research Foundation, health, January 2014, keeping your eyes healthy, latino, NARIC, naric collection, National Eye Institute, National Glaucoma Awareness Month, over 40, owusu, podcast, sight, teddowusu, teddy, twitter, united states, vision, vision loss, YouTube
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A Study to Test the Effectiveness of Health Information in ASL in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community
The Cancer Genetics Education for the Deaf Genetics Projects team, which is made up of researchers at Gallaudet University and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), is working to make health information available in ASL. To this end, they … Continue reading
Posted in Research Study
Tagged cancer, deaf, Disabilities, disability, family, family history, Gallaudet, genetics, hard of hearing, health, health history, HOH, participation, people with disabilities, research, Research Study, study, survey, UCLA
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Patient Bloggers: Familiar Chronicles on Neurological Diseases
In the December 2013/January 2014 edition of Neurology Now (Volume 9, Number 6), the Waiting Room feature highlights patient bloggers in the article “Having Their Say: Patient Bloggers”. The article describes how patient bloggers offer advice as they share their … Continue reading
Disability News Weekly Roundup Monday, Dec 2 – Friday Dec 6
Health: Reuters—Mild depression tied to diabetes complications Even mild bouts of depression may worsen the health complications that often go along with type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. Canadian researchers followed more than 1,000 patients for five years … Continue reading
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Tagged Alzheimer's Disease, autism, benefits, concussions, depression, diabetes, Disabilities, disability, distress, genetics, health, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, kansas city chiefs, mental health, nfl, parkinson's, Parkinson's Disease, politico, psychotherapy, reuters, Rheumatoid Arthritis, sandy hook, science daily, sip-and-puff system, slate, sports, stroke, taxis, teddowusu, teddy owusu, the new york times, tongue-drive wheelchair, un news centre, United Nations, wheelchair
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Disability News Weekly Roundup Monday, Nov 18 – Friday Nov 22
Disability News Weekly Roundup Health: Science Daily— Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer at Risk of Early Aging Researchers found that frail health was associated with a greater risk for adult childhood cancer survivors of death and chronic disease. Being frail … Continue reading
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Tagged abc news, accessibility, aging, aid programs, al jazeera, Arthritis, Asperger Syndrome, associated press, autism, autism research, california healthline, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Child Neuropsychology, childhood cancer, cnn, concussion, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), doorknobs, fox news, government shutdown, head injury, health, med page today, mental health, military psychology, nervous system, obama, olympics, owusu, policy, recession, rheumatic conditions, Rheumatoid Arthritis, science daily, seattle times, sports, stroke prevention, teddowusu, teddy, united nations disabilities pact, vancouver sun, veterans
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