Happy Monday! Almost half of the federal government’s human resources officials say they have not received adequate training on how to manage and retain employees with severe disabilities, according to the results of a survey by the Telework Exchange and the Federal Managers Association set for release Monday. Many of those officials are also unfamiliar with mandates designed to promote the hiring of disabled applicants and hiring rules that allow for the noncompetitive hiring of disabled people.
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.
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.
In 1974, Michael Brennan, then 21, and friends were sunning in the Florida Keys at Sombrero Beach, when Brennan casually ran off into the ocean to cool off. He dived into a wave, hit coral, and promptly broke his spine. He was instantly paralyzed.
As a direct support professional, Andrea McMurray is a chef, property manager, health care provider, cheerleader, grief counselor, life coach, referee, teammate and mediator.
When President Obama nominated Ari Ne’eman to the National Council on Disability, many families touched by autism took it as a positive sign. Mr. Ne’eman would be the first person with the disorder to serve on the council.
It has been seven months since Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died, so it was a bittersweet occasion Tuesday when President Barack Obama signed into law the health care reform the senator made part of his life’s work, one of his sons said yesterday.
A mentally retarded Costa Mesa man has been held by immigration officials for nearly five years without a chance to challenge his detention, the American Civil Liberties Union said Friday.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act that gave millions of previously forgotten citizens the legal right to more fully participate in American life.
