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Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community for April 2017
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. NIDILRR Projects: The ten ADA National Network Regional Centers (English) (various) provide information, technical assistance, and training to maximize the full inclusion and … Continue reading
Posted in Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged ADA, ADA Centers, ADA National Network, Answered Questions, autism, children, community participation, educarion, employment, mobile technologies, NIDILRR, psychological well-being, rehabilitation, service animals, service dogs, Spanish, Spanish-language, support animal
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Dogs, and Other Animals, at Your Service
Last month, the US Supreme Court sided with the family of Ehlena Fry, stating that the family did not have to go through exhaustive administrative appeals when Ehlena’s school denied her request to bring her service dog, Wonder, into the … Continue reading
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Tagged ADA, Ehlena Fry, emotional support animals, guide dogs, service animals, service dogs
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, March 7 to Friday, March 11
Caregiving: Living with the parents I’m losing to Alzheimer’s (The New York Times) In 2010, after several disturbing phone calls from and about her aging parents, Elizabeth Wolf moved back from Vermont to her parents’ home in New Jersey. She … Continue reading
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Tagged Alzheimer's Disease, caregivers, caregiving, cochlear implants, diabetes sniffing dog, down syndrome, golf program for Veterans, independent living, music and cochlear implants, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, service dogs, type 1 diabetes, veterans
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What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a civil rights law that was signed into being in 1990. But what does it do? At its simplest, the ADA makes sure that people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities … Continue reading
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Tagged accessibility, ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, assistive technology, community access, Disabilities, disability, education, knowledge translation, KT, mobility disabilities, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Projects, NIDILRR Research, people with disabilities, post-secondary education, psychiatric disabilities, research, service dogs, technology, wheelchair
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, April 27 to Friday, May 1
Aqui puede leer este articulo en espanol Human Interest: When strangers assume your girlfriend is your nurse (The Washington Post) Shane has lived his entire life with spinal muscular atrophy. That’s 22 years, save the first three, that he has … Continue reading
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Tagged apps for blind users, autism, braille learning app, cannabidiol, cannabis, CBD, diabetes alert dog, epilepsy treatment, FOG, freezing of gait, hearing impairment, Microsoft Kinect, mobility and functional decline, neural prosthetic devices, Parkinson's Disease, prodigies, service dogs, spinal muscular atrophy, temporal acoustic patterns, type 1 diabetes
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, April 28 – Friday, May 2
Human Interest: Soldier who lost leg in Afghanistan vowed ‘I will return.’ This is what it took to get back. (The Washington Post) Following a leg injury sustained by a roadside bomb that resulted in amputation, a US Army soldier … Continue reading
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Tagged accessible housing, amputation, assisted living, behavior modification device, caregivers, cochlear implant, crowdfunding, disability employment, fda, Food and Drug Administration, group home, hearing impairment, homelessness, injured veterans, knee arthritis, laughter, leg amputation, leg prosthesis, medicaid, Medicaid funding, memory improvement activity, National Park Service, osteoarthritis, prosthetic, service animals, service dogs, shock devices, supported living, TBI, traumatic brain injury, unemployment, universal design, walker, walking disability, walking impairment
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From ‘Knee-high’ to Seeing Eye: Guide Dogs
Ever wonder how an energetic puppy becomes a disciplined, focused seeing-eye-dog? Animal lovers will be happy to know that this doesn’t involve any type of animal cruelty or violation of puppy labor laws. Preparation begins when they are puppies and … Continue reading