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Tag Archives: paraplegia
Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, July 7 – Friday, July 11
Policy: Supreme Court rules on disability caregivers (Disability Scoop) The Supreme Court ruled last week that personal home care employees cannot be forced to pay dues to a union. According to the ruling, these employees, some of whom care for … Continue reading
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Tagged autism spectrum disorder, brain-machine interface, children with ASD, conservatorship, Department of Defense, direct brain recording, Disability and Abuse Project, FingerReader, guardianship, iPad, memory deficit, National Right to Vote Foundation, National Right to Work Foundation, paraplegia, reading device for blind, speech disabilities, speech synthesizer, Supreme Court, text-to-speech software, traumatic brain injury, U.S. Supreme Court, union dues, US Department of Justice, veterans, Voting Rights Act of 1965, wheelchair
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, June 23 – Friday, June 27
Human Interest: Worshippers with disabilities search for acceptance (Disability Scoop) Fifty million Americans have some form of disability, yet those numbers are not reflected in the church pews, as accommodations for people with physical and mental disabilities in houses of … Continue reading
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Tagged autism and driving, braille, Braille teaching tool, building accessibility, church attendance, church building accessibility, disability terminology, fNIRS, ImPACT neurocognitive test, intellectual disability, paraplegia, portable optical brain imaging tool, pre-kindergarten education, ReWalk, ReWalk Personal System, special education, thought-controlled arm, Utah Electrode Array
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ESPN’s Carry On: Brotherhood, Struggle, Success within Disability
ESPN recently aired “Carry On: Why I Stayed”, a follow-up to its 2009 documentary “Carry On” featuring Cleveland-native high school wrestler’s Dartanyon Crockett and Leroy Sutton. In 2009 the sports network’s cameras followed both young men and chronicled their journey … Continue reading
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Tagged accessibility, blindness, carry on, crockett, dartanyon, documentary, donate, education, espn, fenn, leber's disease, leroy, lisa, low vision, mixed marial arts, mma, owusu, paraplegia, physical accessibility, sports, sutton, teddowusu, teddy, television, wrestlers, wrestling
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Living with SCI: A Legless Summer
Pascale Honore and her sons Morgan and Tom are hitting the road this summer on what they call a “Legless Summer” trip. The 50-year-old Australian native remembers growing up along the coastal town of Elliston, doing what she loved—surfing. That … Continue reading
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Tagged australia, coastal town, elliston, hitting the road, honore, living with disabilities, morgan, NARIC, owusu, paraplegia, pascale, SCI, spinal cord, spinal cord injury, summer, summer trip, surfing, swan, teddowusu, teddy, tom, tyron
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Disability in the News: Two videos from CNN.com related to e-Legs technology
This post presents a quick highlight of two videos in the news. The first video presents Berkeley Bionics CEO Eythor Bender talking about the vision behind eLegs, a bionic device for wheelchair users. The second video features the a different … Continue reading
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Tagged assistive technology, e-Legs, mobility disabilities, paraplegia, SCI
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