Get the latest news on disability issues and see the work of other journalists who are writing in this area. To share your own work, please e-mail Jake Geller.
Disability News Archive
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
More Texans apply for Social Security Disability Insurance — and wait
Ray Shuga, a retired truck driver in Fort Worth, twiddled his thumbs for about two years between the time he applied for Social Security Disability Insurance and the arrival of his first check.
Filed Under: employment, Social Security
Areas of Interest
- adaptive sports (36)
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (149)
- arts (32)
- assistive technology (13)
- autism spectrum (27)
- bipolar disorder (1)
- blog (3)
- bullying (2)
- Census (1)
- children (21)
- crime (5)
- criminal justice (5)
- dance (3)
- dementia (2)
- developmental disability (51)
- disability awareness (45)
- disaster planning (11)
- dwarfism (2)
- education (116)
- employment (96)
- end-of-life care (5)
- epilepsy (2)
- handicapped parking (9)
- healthcare (103)
- hearing impaired (21)
- hidden disability (3)
- higher education (36)
- housing (45)
- inclusion (33)
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (14)
- intellectual disability (41)
- international (1)
- Internet (12)
- K-12 (80)
- language (20)
- learning disability (35)
- little people (1)
- long-term care (76)
- media (17)
- migraine (1)
- military (11)
- Olmsted decision (32)
- Paralympics (7)
- parenting (9)
- physical accessibility (11)
- physical disability (89)
- politics (6)
- professional football (3)
- profile (81)
- psychiatric disability (26)
- PTSD (4)
- public policy (192)
- public safety (16)
- quadriplegic (2)
- recreation (75)
- Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (10)
- relationships (5)
- religion (7)
- restraints (4)
- schizophrenia (2)
- Section 508 (6)
- service animal (6)
- sexuality (5)
- sheltered work environment (5)
- Social Security (25)
- Special Olympics (3)
- technology (31)
- television (8)
- theater (1)
- transportation (26)
- traumatic brain injury (4)
- Uncategorized (1)
- veteran (10)
- visually impaired (31)
