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kalyanim | 17 hours ago
Pennhurst State School and Hospital , the institute for the treatment and accommodation of the mentally and physically disabled people, was established back in 1908
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JFActivist (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
From the Guardian (11/4/09): Charity says 9% of disabled people have been victims of hate crime Leonard Cheshire Disability included question on disability-related crime after high-profile incidents in which disabled people had been targeted by Peter Walker Almost one in...
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arbitrary constant (Free subscription) | yesterday
A recent Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled that disabled people who volunteer cannot claim disability discrimination under the Disability Discrimination Act. So far as I understand the ruling of the case, it relates to the employment status of the individual involved rather than their impairment — it's thus the applicability of the Disability Discrimination Act, rather than the discrimination...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
TAYLORSVILLE » Thirty years ago, it was futuristic to think a deaf or hearing impaired person could communicate by standard telephone. With Video Relay Service, or VRS, that space-age fantasy is reality.
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Ambush Predator (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
...a reply to Eleanor Gore's CiF article : Alongside the disturbing trends in disability poverty and discrimination revealed by our survey, many of the disabled people reported improvements in their experiences . Paradoxically, increasing discrimination in the workplace and in access to goods and services - and unacceptable levels of disability hate crime - were coupled with a sense that, when it comes...
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Gadling (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Filed under: Airports Screening airline passengers in a wheelchair has often been a bit of a hot topic. For some reason, people get wound up when they see the TSA searching every corner of a wheelchair, as if disabled people should automatically be trusted and allowed to pass through without a search of their chair. The TSA understood this criticism, and decided to do a little research. As it turns...
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historymike (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
I frequently pass the pictured panhandler at his regular post, which is at the off-ramp from southbound I-75 at U.S.-20 (Fremont Pike). Though I consider myself a relatively generous person, I am much more discriminating when I encounter people cadging money on the street, and I typically pay little attention to this individual on my trips to Rossford. He appears to be able-bodied, and seems to have...
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reesuq3nh | 14 hours ago
LOS ANGELES – The cast and crew of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" continued their unexpected journey from a scrappy little screening 10 months ago at the Sundance Film Festival to a star-studded gala at the legendary Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. "I'm speechless," said director Lee Daniels at an event hosted by the American Film Institute on Sunday.
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Dolphinarium (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
I HATE the sound of this bill. Anyway, this has just come in from Global Womens' Strike . Welfare Reform Bill : Mothers, carers, people with disabilities, victims of domestic violence … win important changes in the Lords. But some may be overturned on Tuesday when the Bill returns to the Commons. Join us to press MPs to keep them. Many important concessions have been won. Testimonies from those...
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leepedia lite (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Labour Transport Ministers have drawn up proposals to reduce the grant for older and disabled residents travel that pays for the popular Freedom Pass Scheme in London. 1.2 million people use the Freedom Pass in London, under a scheme that sees local Councils currently contributing a third of the cost, while other areas of the country have their schemes fully funded by the Government. The Labour Government...
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The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
The state can now decide who is entitled to have a baby and remove the child from those they claim are not intelligent enough. A heavily pregnant woman and her fiance have gone on the run after social workers threatened to take away their baby at birth. Kerry Robertson, 17, and Mark McDougall, 25, had been told that she was not bright enough to raise their child and that they would have to give him...
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Mock, Paper, Scissors (Free subscription) | yesterday
Whaddya mean there are disabled people out there who don’t coordinate their canes to their new eyeglasses? From canes They at least coordinate with every outfit in the closet, right. From canes
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StarWatch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jane Lichtenberg A pothole-filled alley and a sidewalk without wheelchair cutouts are no more than mild inconveniences to most of us. But for people with disabilities, they are the difference between being homebound or mobile. Just ask Donna J. Mathews, a resident of the 300 block of Eastern Avenue who uses a wheelchair. The alley behind her Eastside house, and two nearby cross alleys, were filled...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A charity which caters for many disabled people on the Isle of Man cuts 17 jobs to cope with the economic crisis.
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Wheat & Weeds (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's an op-ed clearly clearly drawn from or the basis of his earlier comments noted here . In addition to his anti-health-care bill arguments from before --life, conscience, subsidiarity, justice-- he takes a broad swipe at the Democrats. Given the broad Catholic support for some kind of comprehensive healthcare reform, the historic links of the Democratic Party to the Catholic community, and the...
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reesuq3nh | 14 hours ago
LOS ANGELES – The cast and crew of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" continued their unexpected journey from a scrappy little screening 10 months ago at the Sundance Film Festival to a star-studded gala at the legendary Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. "I'm speechless," said director Lee Daniels at an event hosted by the American Film Institute on Sunday. "I'm humbled and speechless....
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kalyanim | 17 hours ago
Pennhurst State School and Hospital , the institute for the treatment and accommodation of the mentally and physically disabled people, was established back in 1908
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cynthiafreeman2009 | 10/29/2009
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