Saturday, March 29, 2014

Rest in peace, Gayle Hafner - thanks for many years of hard work strengthening disability rights in Maryland

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From The Baltimore Sun : Gayle Hafner, a senior staff attorney of the Maryland Disability Law Center and a co-founder of Medicaid Mat...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Changing lives at a sports clinic for disabled vets

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From Paul Wolfowitz in the Wall Street Journal : At the end of this month, the 28th annual Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic wil...

“Cybathlon” invites parathletes to compete in their prosthetics, exoskeletons

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From Lily Hay Newman at Slate magazine : The summer 2016 Olympics may be in Brazil, but I’m getting much more excited for a competit...
Monday, March 24, 2014

African activists fight for rights of disabled people

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From Deutsche Welle in Germany: Rachel Karchaje navigates her wheelchair through the large laundromat like a pro, easing between wh...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Actress Lupita Nyong'o is now distributing her documentary about albinism in Kenya on DVD

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From Third World Newsreel : Third World Newsreel is proud distributor of In My Genes , a documentary film by Lupita Nyong...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

On 'DWTS,' amputee Amy Purdy is 'a dancer like anyone else'

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From USA Today : Hough flew to Sochi to get in some training time before the show starts, working around Purdy's snowboarding sche...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Advertising Age story discusses how ad research overlooks disabled people

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Full Disclosure: BA Haller is on the advisory board of DisABILITYIncites. From Advertising Age : Why aren't people with disabilit...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

How Korean TV dramas portray people with disabilities

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From K-Drama Stars : K-drama plots have used disabilities such as vision and hearing impairment before. They often predict a tragic lo...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

Double-amputee Amy Purdy ‘excited’ to compete on ‘Dancing With the Stars’

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from ABC News : Amy Purdy (pictured) is a sensation on the slopes, but the world-class paralympic snowboarder will trade in her snow b...
Monday, March 3, 2014

Disabled model Debbie Van Der Putten stars in new Dutch campaign

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From The Huffington Post : Model Debbie van der Putten is an amputee who lost her arm at 19 in a bus crash, but that isn't stoppin...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Sochi isn't fully equipped to accommodate athletes with disabilities for Paralympics

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From The AP . In the picture, a door frame raised from the floor lies across an entrance to wheelchair seating at the Bolshoy Ice Dome ...
Friday, February 21, 2014

Disability moving into the spotlight as companies embrace inclusion in their advertising, marketing

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From Chicago Special Parent . In the picture, Grace Driscoll was part of a photo shoot for the Infantino and Step 2 campaign "Everybo...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

U.S. Paralympic sled team special debuts on PBS Feb. 24

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From NHL.com : The 2014 U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey Team will be the focus of a one-hour documentary entitled "Ice Warriors: USA...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

New York Fashion Week features first-ever wheelchair-using model

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From Women eNews : NEW YORK --The fashion industry is coming under steady pressure to widen the spectrum of beauty ideals. Ad campaig...
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

FCC draft does not mandate penalties for cable operators, broadcasters who don't comply with closed-captioning rules

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From Broadcasting & Cable : FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has teed up a vote on a three-part closed-captioning item that will require c...