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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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Story Of Woman’s Disability Leads To Oscar Moment
Prudence Mabhena was born with a disability that causes her bones and muscles to contort. As a young child, her legs had to be amputated. Adding to the difficulty of living through that was her Zimbabwean family who considered her disability a curse and often referred to her as a helpless ant.
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Walking in another’s shoes: Students learn about people with disabilities
On Monday, students in Karen Bakalarski’s kindergarten at class at Gill Hall Elementary in the West Jefferson Hills School District set aside their school work in order to learn some life lessons.
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Baltimore Schools Settle 26 Year Old Disability Lawsuit
Top school officials were all hugs and smiles today as they made the announcement.
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Movement presses to drop ‘retardation’ from clinical terminology
Ginese is among a growing number of people across the nation working to halt use of the terms “mental retardation” and “mentally retarded” and replace them with the terms “intellectual disability” and “an individual with an intellectual disability.”
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House approves bill to limit physical restraint of students
The House approved a bill Wednesday to limit the physical restraint and seclusion of students in schools, a response to an investigation last year that found numerous reports of students abused or killed through such disciplinary measures.
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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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Aren’t all kids on some kind of medication? Isn’t everyone diagnosed with something these days? Isn’t ADD as common as the sniffles?
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Glenvar’s Jake Tyree has hoops and dreams despite paralyzing disability
Jake Tyree is like any other highly recruited basketball player.
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We’ve added to our resources page an edition of the News Watch journal focusing on covering the disability community. It includes articles on being a reporter with a disability, how the media gets it wrong when it comes to covering disability and what it is like to be disabled and Muslim, among other articles and tips. Check it out under Disability Resources List.
