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MetroAccess paratransit service to be scaled back because of rising demand, cost
Metro is planning to scale back its MetroAccess service for elderly and disabled people as burgeoning ridership creates an unsustainable financial burden, Metro officials and board members said.
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Greer teen beauty queen not sidelined by disability
Anna Brown lives her platform, advocating achieving success in any arena despite obstacles.
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Bipartisan Senate bill aims to take ‘retarded’ out of federal lexicon
Senators are preparing to eliminate all references in federal law to the terms “mental retardation” and “mentally retarded individual.”
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Traumatic brain injuries cause many disabilities
We’re continuing our series this month with a discussion and as much educational information as possible about traumatic brain injuries. Today, we’d like to describe some of the possible disabling conditions that can result from a TBI.
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Disability care workers getting long-awaited raises
Daniel Zaragoza wants to help people in need so badly that he’s worked as a pizza delivery man on the side to make ends meet.
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Barriers of attitude block people with disabilities from full inclusion in churches
According to a longtime advocate for people with disabilities, the greatest barriers to including special-needs individuals in churches are not architectural or language, but rather barriers of attitude.
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Lawsuit: Calif fails to accommodate deaf workers
Deaf and hard-of-hearing state employees in California are regularly denied sign language interpreters for meetings and have been left behind during emergency evacuations because of a failure to accommodate their disability, according to a lawsuit filed Friday.
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On ablegamers.com, video games are rated not only for how much fun they are to play, but by how accessible they are to those with mobility, visual or hearing impairments. Mark Barlet, the site founder and host of the upcoming Game Accessibility Day, explains why game companies should reach out to the disabled.
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Fewer than 10 percent of the 1.3 million legally blind Americans now read Braille, down from around half in the 1950s. Reporter Rachel Aviv wrote about the dying language earlier this year in The New York Times Magazine.
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The Digital Divide of Disability
Knowbility is an organization that advocates for technology that allows blind, deaf and otherwise disabled people to use the net. Knowbility’s Sharron Rush and Desiree Sturdevant talk about the challenges they face in raising awareness and changing the laws surrounding online usability.
