The Winter Olympics and Paralympics are right around the corner and there’s one local athlete that will prove to the world that disabilities don’t have to hold you back.
During her high school years, Lisamaria Martinez, who has been visually impaired since she was 5, carried a 25-pound backpack to school crammed with books written in Braille.
In September of 1942, Warren Sawyer, a 23-year-old conscientious objector, reported for his volunteer assignment as an attendant at a state mental hospital. The young Quaker was one of thousands of pacifists who had refused to fight and instead were assigned to work in places few outsiders got to see — places like Philadelphia State Hospital, best known as Byberry.
Here’s one reason Micah Fialka-Feldman wants to live on his college campus, instead of remaining at home with his parents: To get to college in the morning, he takes the public bus near his home, then transfers to a second bus. The trip takes about two hours.
It won’t surprise anyone who follows college football that at times, some college athletes get extra help with that pesky “college” aspect of their careers. Nor is it news that administrators have sometimes overstepped in their efforts to get athletes passing grades.
A St. Francis High School student dedicated to theater, all she wanted was a good orchestra seat at the city-owned Sacramento Community Center Theater. But there was none for a patron in a wheelchair.
Heartless Hub motorists who use handicapped parking passes meant for relatives – dead or alive – drew a harsh rebuke from the state’s top advocate for the disabled.
A federal judge on Monday granted a preliminary injunction that blocks the state from terminating two people’s community-based mental health services until a lawsuit over the matter goes before the court in a full hearing.