Posts filed under: developmental disability

April 6, 2010
The Delaware (Ohio) Gazette
Friends with disabilities collaborate on county Web site
For Brad Whitmoyer, using computers isn’t just a pastime, it’s a way of life.
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Filed Under: assistive technology, developmental disability, employment, Internet, profile, technology

March 29, 2010
Concord (N.H.) Monitor
Disability waiting list mustn't return
There was cause for celebration only a few short months ago, when the state's waiting list for people who qualify for services for the developmentally disabled was finally eliminated. But the joy was short-lived and replaced by trepidation.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), developmental disability, healthcare, housing, long-term care, Olmsted decision, public policy

March 29, 2010
Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader
School-to-work program gives students a chance to gain job, life skills.
Morganne Box and Ian Featherston like their jobs and the people they work with. They go to work each day confident they are doing something that benefits not only them but others as well.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, education, employment, K-12, sheltered work environment

March 23, 2010
The Houston Chronicle
Workers arrested kept jobs at Texas state schools
Employees at state-run centers who were arrested for felonies such as child rape and murder continued on the payroll to care for the mentally disabled, according to criminal fingerprint checks.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, intellectual disability, long-term care, public policy

March 19, 2010
Austin (Texas) American-Statesman
Report: State facility for people with disabilities lacks psychiatrists, trained therapists
Nine months after Texas and the U.S. Department of Justice entered into a settlement to improve health care and more quickly investigate reports of abuse and neglect at state institutions for people with mental disabilities, the facility in Corpus Christi doesn't have staff psychiatrists, has therapists who are ill-equipped to work with people with complex needs and doesn't have a clear zero-tolerance policy for abuse and neglect.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, housing, intellectual disability, long-term care

March 12, 2010
The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger
N.J. Gov. Chris Christie pledges to restore $2M to move disabled to new housing
The Christie administration today pledged to restore a $2 million budget cut made last month, paving the way for 14 people with developmental disabilities who were waiting to leave institutional care for community housing to relocate as soon as possible, a state official confirmed.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), developmental disability, healthcare, housing, long-term care, Olmsted decision, public policy

March 12, 2010
KTKA-TV (Topeka, Kan.)
Disability advocates aim to get 'unlawful' cuts reversed
Many disability advocates claim the state has made some unlawful budget cuts to some of its most vulnerable people. Attorneys for Interhab, a company that provides in home developmental disability service, filed a petition Friday to reverse the cuts made by the state. More than 2,000 children and adults with disabilities are affected by the $10 million that was taken away.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, employment, housing, intellectual disability, public policy

Feb. 27, 2010
The Maryland Gazette
Disabilities advocates urge to reduce waiting list

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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, housing, long-term care, public policy

Feb. 20, 2010
Wilton (Conn.) Bulletin
Special needs students face ‘aging out’ dilemma
When special needs students reach the age of 21, their education and therapy services as mandated by federal law cease. The process is called “aging out.” The Individual Disability Education Act guarantees free appropriate education, including therapies as needed, from ages 3 to 21.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, education, healthcare, K-12, long-term care

Feb. 9, 2010
Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press
Program helps students with disabilities get job experience
In many ways, Margaret Uhde, Laura Hartig, Andrew Embry and Hajira Mufti are like any other employees at St. Mary's Warrick Hospital.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, employment

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