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Matthew Sanford links yoga’s self-awareness and healing
Help Sanford onto a yoga mat, and the 44-year-old who hasn’t walked since he was 13 will achieve poses that trouble even the strongest able-bodied practitioners.
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Interventions In Education To Help Detect Learning Disabilities
Getting her son the help he needs has never been easy for Mary Lou Woynar of Westbrook. She’s had to educate herself and be assertive and vocal.
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Mereth Dunn-Estey sometimes finds maneuvering around store aisles in her motorized scooter difficult. The 48-year-old Eugene resident said the aisles often are built wide enough to accommodate scooters and wheelchairs. But instead of keeping the aisles accessible, stores pack them with products and promotions that extend beyond the shelves. And the turning space at the end of aisles also can be an issue, she said.
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Teddy Pendergrass: A Raw Soul Voice, Silenced
Teddy Pendergrass, one of the most distinctive R&B singers of the 1970s, died Wednesday in suburban Philadelphia, eight months after surgery for colon cancer. He was 59.
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Teddy Pendergrass, Singer, Dies at 59
R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass, who was one of the most electric and successful figures in music until a car crash 28 years ago left him in a wheelchair, has died of colon cancer. He was 59.
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Disability retrofit: Big task, but help’s out there
Remodeling a home can be daunting even under ideal circumstances. But combined with the stress of a sudden injury, the need to care for an aging family member or sensory loss due to a disease, the prospect of a big retrofitting project can be overwhelming. Insurance rarely covers everything, so decisions on which changes are crucial and which can wait will have to be made — and often, made quickly.
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Lawsuit over disabled apartment access resolved
Many apartments at Napa’s Hawthorn Village will be renovated to make sure they are fully accessible to people with physical disabilities.
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Disabled worshippers struggle to find home in pews
Among the most humbling moments being confined to an electric wheelchair came when Shawana Bulloch realized it could prevent her from attending services at her Savannah church.
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Justice Dept. settles blind students v. Kindle controversy
Four universities have agreed the will not purchase, recommend or promote use of the Kindle DX, or any other dedicated electronic book reader, unless the devices are fully accessible to blind students, according to the US Department of Justice.
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Disability Advocates Criticize Governor’s Budget
Under the governor’s worse-case-scenario-budget the disabled would lose essential equipment like wheelchairs and oxygen tanks. They’re called optional benefits – that means under federal law the state is not required to cover them.
