Friday, January 11, 2013

Deaf woman's eBay complaint highlights dispute over Web access for disabled people

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From CNN : Melissa Earll (pictured) owns stacks of classic comic books, baseball cards that include a young Hank Aaron and Whitey Ford...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

Tool designed for blind students proves useful for others, too

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From KQED in California: Some school districts are turning to a new resource to help struggling readers: digital textbooks designed f...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

World's first eye-tracking PC accessory to launch in 2013

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From Mashable : Eye-tracking technology has been slowly emerging as a viable technology the last couple of years, and it comes in r...

Taiwan launches e-guide to help disabled people find accessible restaurants in Taipei

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From CNA : TAIPEI- Local disability groups launched an e-book and print handbook Jan. 3 designed to help disabled people find and get...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Russian adoption ban brings uncertainty, outrage and possible danger to orphans with disabilities there

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From The NY Times. Pictured is Russian adoptee Alexander D'Jamoos, now a UT-Austin college student. He spoke to John Hockenberry at ...

British Paralympian Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson believes 2012 was the year Paralympics 'came of age'

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By Tanni Grey-Thompson in The Telegraph : She is pictured with her 15 Paralympics gold medals. There were two deeply personal m...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

In Florida, Garrett Holeve, MMA fighter with Down syndrome, on his way to changing sport

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Intro to a story in the Broward Palm Beach New Times in Florida: "I'm dangerous," 23-year-old Garrett Holeve (pictured wi...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Bones tell story of compassion, caregiving of disabled people in ancient times

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From The NY Times : While it is a painful truism that brutality and violence are at least as old as humanity, so, it seems, is caring ...

iPads, Bob Marley's 'One Love' help autistic high schoolers in NY make sweet music

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From Fast Company : On one recent day at PS 177 in Queens, NY, a scene that’s typical this time of year unfolds: the school band pla...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

Associated Press: No link between Asperger's, violence, experts report

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From The AP : A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the unfo...

Croatia lifts voting prohibition for people with disabilities

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From Mental Disability Advocacy Center: Dec. 14 the Croatian parliament added 16,355 adults to the electoral register. These people ar...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

Access4Kids device brings tablets in reach of disabled kids with fine motor impairments

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From Georgia Tech . Ayanna Howard (right) and Hae Won Park (left) model the Access4Kids device that allows kids with fine motor impairment...

UK 'more positive about disability' following Paralympics

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From BBC News : Three-quarters of Britons feel more positive about the role of people with disabilities in the UK following the Para...
Tuesday, December 11, 2012

In planned film, "Love Land," young woman with intellectual disability fights the label that keeps her from her community

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From the "Love Land" production team . You can find the film on Facebook here . Love Land is a narrative dramatic feature f...

Hashtag #Paralympics most trending UK sports event of 2012, Twitter reports

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From Orange News in the UK: The hashtag #Paralympics has topped the table for the most trending UK sport event of 2012, beati...