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Syracuse University student journalist Joey Pagano shares commentary about his experience entering college while having cerebral palsy.
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Tamika Catchings is headed to the basketball Hall of Fame and she uses hearing aids. ESPN reporter Dan Hajducky, who is also hearing impaired, shares reflections in this piece.
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Easterseals, a leading national nonprofit provider of outcomes-based services and a powerful advocacy for people with disabilities, has released its Easterseals Study on the Impact of COVID-19 on People With Disabilities. The organization will use the findings as a dynamic roadmap forward, launching a comprehensive, nationwide strategic effort to modify, expand and amplify its services to respond to the urgent and evolving needs of the 1.5 million children and adults it serves.
Read the key findings here.
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Amanda will join the National desk as The Times’s first reporting fellow focused on disability issues. The fellowship is in partnership with the National Center on Disability and Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University.
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The NCDJ hosted a book reading featuring longtime disability advocate and NCDJ supporter Katherine Schneider on May 5 at 1:00pm Arizona Time via Zoom.
Schneider’s book, “Hope of the Crow: Tales of Occupying Aging,” is an honest, instructive and hilarious memoir of aging and disability. She read selections that include “What if Wonder Woman had a Disability?” and “Sighted People are Strange.” She also answered questions from participants in the Zoom meeting.
Katherine Schneider, PhD., is a retired clinical psychologist living in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, with her 10th Seeing Eye dog.
Watch the event on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkhQVZMlRzI
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The National Center on Disability and Journalism is now accepting entries for the 2021 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability, the only journalism contest devoted exclusively to disability coverage.
Winners will receive a total of $8,000 in cash awards in large media and small media categories. First-place winners in each category will be awarded $2,500 and invited to give a public lecture for the Cronkite School in fall 2020. Second-place winners will receive $1,000 and third-place winners $500.
Journalists working in digital, print and broadcast media are eligible to enter. Entries are accepted from outside the U.S., although the work submitted must be in English.
Entries must have been published or aired between July 1, 2020, and July 31, 2021. The deadline to enter is Aug. 7, 2021. There is no entry fee. For more information and to enter, go to https://ncdj.org/contest/.
Amanda Morris will be The New York Times’s first reporting fellow focused on disability issues.
The fellowship is in partnership with the National Center on Disability and Journalism and Mass Communication at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, which works with journalists around the world to improve reporting on disability. The two-year program is philanthropically supported and will recruit one fellow each year to work at The Times.
Raised by profoundly deaf parents, Amanda identifies with the disability community, having a moderate-to-severe hearing loss. She has worn a hearing aid since she was a year old. A graduate of New York University, she has reported for The Associated Press, NPR, CNN and The Hartford Courant, among others. Most recently, she was a bioscience reporter for The Arizona Republic.
Read the full release in the New York Times.
The National Center on Disability and Journalism is now accepting entries for the 2021 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability, the only journalism contest devoted exclusively to disability coverage.
Winners will receive a total of $8,000 in cash awards in large media and small media categories. First-place winners in each category will be awarded $2,500 and invited to give a public lecture for the Cronkite School in fall 2020. Second-place winners will receive $1,000 and third-place winners $500.
Journalists working in digital, print and broadcast media are eligible to enter. Entries are accepted from outside the U.S., although the work submitted must be in English.
Entries must have been published or aired between July 1, 2020, and July 31, 2021. The deadline to enter is Aug. 7, 2021. There is no entry fee. For more information and to enter, go to https://ncdj.org/contest/.
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PHOENIX – Over 1,600 people got their first COVID-19 vaccinations at a recent event targeting individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
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On Friday, AP Stylebook Editor Paula Froke shared the latest updates to the Associated Press Stylebook, the grammar and usage guide used by newsrooms around the United States. Among the updates was additional guidance on disability.
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On Wednesday, April 27 White House will provide American Sign Language interpretation for Joe Biden’s address to Congress. According to ABC News this is the first time in history the White House has done so.
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April is Autism Acceptance Month. It’s a good time to rethink not only how non-autistic or “neurotypical” people can best support autistic people –– but also how non-disabled people in general can do better in supporting people with any kind of mental, developmental, or physical disability. There’s no shortage of good intentions. Most people if asked would say that they at least want to do right by people with disabilities. But being a good disability ally requires more than goodwill. This article describes three of the most common ways that even the best, most committed disability allies can go wrong.
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