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
Los Angeles Times
Veterans Affairs wants to be an advocate, not an enemy
John Lamie survived six roadside bombings in Iraq, only to have the Department of Veterans Affairs refuse to accept three months’ worth of medical tests he underwent for jaw and shoulder wounds — tests performed by VA-approved doctors at VA facilities.
Filed Under: healthcare, military, traumatic brain injury, veteran
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)


