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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Groundbreaking settlement to end discrimination against blind Uber riders who use guide dogs

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From Disability Rights Advocates : April 30, 2016 – Berkeley, CA – In an unprecedented settlement announced today, Uber has agreed to ...

Friday, April 29, 2016

Thai university creates cheap, touchable ink for blind people

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From CNET : Researchers at Thammasat University in Thailand have created something that will potentially make it a lot cheaper for the...

Applications now being accepted for NBCUniversal Tony Coelho Media Scholarship

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From AAPD : Thanks to a generous contribution from NBCUniversal, the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) is proud t...

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Burger King's king finally speaks, by signing, for American Sign Language day

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From Adweek : From the days when he would pop up, unannounced, in your bed in the morning, Burger King's King character has never a...

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Beyoncé casts model with muscular dystrophy to promote new products

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From The Guardian : Jillian Mercado, a blogger and model with muscular dystrophy, has been cast as a new face of Beyoncé’s online stor...

Thursday, March 17, 2016

UK award-winning film stars disabled actress in lead role

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From Pos'ability magazine in the UK: With the lack of black actors causing boycotts at this year’s Oscars; criticism of leading me...

Friday, February 26, 2016

Amazon reaches deal with Deaf rights group to caption all video

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From arstechnica : A deaf rights group that sued Netflix to compel it to caption all its video programming has reached a similar deal ...

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Service launched to help universities comply with ADA web site regulations

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From Campus Technology : Acknowledging that a wide variety of higher education institutions have run into legal problems because acces...

Thursday, February 18, 2016

DisBeat announces first five 2016 #DisabilityVote initiatives

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From DisBeat : 2016 is on track to become a historic election cycle for Disabled Americans. From live events –including the Road to ...

Robots, video games create radical new approach to treating stroke survivors

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The first part of The New Yorker article: In late October, when the Apple TV was relaunched, Bandit’s Shark Showdown was among the f...

Monday, February 1, 2016

Thalidomide’s been a silent voice in Britain's 'Call The Midwife' drama... until now

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From The Sun in the UK: WITH its mix of beautiful babies, heart-warming stories and tragic tales, Call The Midwife regularly leaves ...

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BA Haller: Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.

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