Posts filed under: media

June 11
KOMU-TV (Columbia, Mo.)
Missourians With Disabilities Want State's Help
The Arc of Missouri's campaign "Missouri Can't Wait" seeks to get the word out about the lack of state services for people with developmental disabilities.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, long-term care, media, television

June 4
The Washington Post
International VSA Festival highlights
"What is disability?" Last fall, VSA, the international organization on arts and disability once known as Very Special Arts, invited artists around the world to answer that question.
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Filed Under: arts, media

May 27
WLS-TV (Chicago)
Employers urged to 'Think Beyond the Label'
Several months ago, a $4 million national disability awareness campaign hit the airwaves with high hopes for increasing employment among people with disabilities.
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Filed Under: disability awareness, employment, media, television

March 17
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Campaign pushes for more roles for disabled actors
Although 54 million Americans ages 5 to 64 have disabilities, performers with disabilities are "virtually invisible" in entertainment media, contends I AM PWD (Inclusion in the Arts and Media of Performers with Disabilities), an advocacy campaign that's trying to change that.
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Filed Under: arts, employment, media

March 3
The Associated Press
Neil Patrick Harris goes to the dogs for PBS film
Neil Patrick Harris is the narrator of a PBS documentary exploring the bond between service dogs and those they help.
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Filed Under: media, physical disability, public policy, service animal, television

Jan. 28
The New York Times
Using Humor in a Campaign Supporting Disabled People
A NATIONAL effort to encourage businesses to employ workers with disabilities is not your father’s hire the handicapped campaign.
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Filed Under: disability awareness, employment, media

Jan. 19
The Baltimore Sun
Young, gifted and disabled
Zarifa Roberson was supposed to be taking a break from studying for the law school admissions exam, clearing her head with a stop at a Barnes & Noble near her home in Philadelphia. Soon enough, the break turned into another project, a project that has now entered a new phase in Baltimore.
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Filed Under: disability awareness, media, profile, sexuality

Dec. 22, 2009
National Public Radio
Man Who Inspired 'Rain Man' Dies At 58
Kim Peek may have been the world's most famous savant. Dustin Hoffman portrayed a character based on Peek in the 1988 film Rain Man, which triggered hundreds of news stories and documentaries about the man with "islands of remarkable abilities in a sea of disabilities," as scientists described him.
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Filed Under: autism spectrum, media

Nov. 17, 2009
Time
Survivor, the Disabled Version, Comes to U.K. TV
To television executives depressed over the dwindling audiences for reality TV shows and looking for ways to reinvigorate the once hugely profitable genre, the following pitch might be compelling. "We've got this great show for you. We're going to take six strangers and strand them somewhere really remote; we'll film them as they struggle to survive. You say it's already been done — there's I'm a Celebrity — Get Me Out of Here! and Survivor and, here in Britain, Castaway. But here's the twist: our participants will be ... disabled! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Cast Offs, a uniquely challenging reality TV show." Read more here
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Nov. 14, 2009
The Columbus Dispatch
Disability a nonissue for actor
LOS ANGELES -- Nine years ago, a motorcycle accident left Daryl Mitchell paralyzed from the waist down. Besides needing a wheelchair to get around, though, the co-star of the new Fox comedy Brothers said his life has changed little.
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Filed Under: media, physical disability, profile, television

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