Thursday, December 30, 2010

Knoxville, Tenn., school program provides socialization classes for students with Asperger's

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From The Knoxville News : The praying mantis ate all the cicada except for its legs, just like 8-year-old Baylor McCubbin said it would. ...

Facebook helps reunite wheelchair user and his service dog

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From WOFL-TV : ORLANDO, Fla. -- The search for a dog who is more than just man's best friend ended happily Tuesday night thanks to a p...

A civil war within psychiatry that is the DSM-5

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From NPR : The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or DSM, updated roughly every 15 years, has detai...

Florida school begins program to give iPads to autistic preschoolers

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From UPI : FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- U.S. researchers say iPads may aid learning among preschool children with autism. Researchers at Nov...

Maryland center for people with intellectual disabilities sees drop in clients over the years

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From The Cumberland Times-News in Md.: CUMBERLAND, Md. -— The Joseph D. Brandenburg Center isn’t closing, but the number of people who li...

How to plan for college when you have a learning disability

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From U.S. News & World Report : Most of the 3 percent or so of teens who have been diagnosed with learning disabilities struggle so mu...

Wheelchair user sues businesses in Selma, Alabama, for ADA violations

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From The Selma Enterprise : Five Selma businesses have been sued by a wheelchair-bound man who says the businesses broke a federal law bec...

New book follows British blind man's travels around the world

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From The Evening Post in Bristol, UK: When it comes to venturing around the globe, many would be nervous of tackling the world's most...

Disabled filmmaker in Australia named national finalist in short film competition

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From The West Australian : Proving disability is no barrier to creativity, wheelchair-bound Fitzroy Crossing man Aquinas Crowe (pictured) ...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Funeral arrangements for Paraquad founder Max Starkloff announced

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Funeral Arrangements for Max D. Starkloff (pictured) will be Tuesday, January 4th 2010 at 10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. The Funeral Mass will be at S...

Deaf artist from Malaysia creates TIME's cover this week

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From The Star in Malaysia: PETALING JAYA, Malaysia --- The man behind WikiLeaks may not have been TIME magazine’s pick for Person of the ...

People with disabilities in NJ face major cuts in SSI

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From The Star-Ledger in N.J. In the picture, Raymond Mendenko, right, talks to his grandson Ian Davis, 5, left, at his home in Wrightstown...

Japanese citizens stepping up to serve as legal guardians of disabled or elderly people with no family

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From Yomiuri Shimbun : "Citizen guardians" are ordinary citizens who serve as legal guardians of adults who have no blood relati...

One of the motion picture recordings of American Sign Language selected for National Film Registry

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From WILX-TV : BALTIMORE -- "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Saturday Night Fever" are among the 25 films selected for p...

Fort Worth, Texas, continues to pursue fines against veteran for attacks by pit bull he says is his "therapy dog"

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From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram : City officials will continue to pursue thousands of dollars in outstanding fines against a disabled F...