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Disabled workers paid cents per hour at state-run homes
More than 300 mentally retarded people are being paid less than the minimum wage to work at the state-run Woodward and Glenwood homes for the disabled.
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Military helps families find care for special-needs kids
When her husband, a Marine Corps colonel, was transferred last summer from the Pentagon to a base in southern California, Karen Driscoll was forced to confront her autistic child’s new school district and the intricacies of federal special education law.
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Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death: Sedation
In almost every room people were sleeping, but not like babies. This was not the carefree sleep that would restore them to rise and shine for another day. It was the sleep before — and sometimes until — death.
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Greene: Colo. funding decision stymies disabled supermom
There’s a term, “supercrip,” that describes a way of portraying people with disabilities as though it’s astonishing that they get out of bed each morning and go about their lives.
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Girl’s wish: N.J. study of reading disorders
The Ocean City, N.J., seventh grader and her mother, Beth, have been working the last few years to pass a law that would create a task force to better ensure that reading-disabled children like Samantha get the help they need. And
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House outfitted for people with disabilities
One out of five individuals over the age of 70 struggles with dementia. This also includes those with developmental disabilities and mental illness. To help these individuals, Seguin Services, a not-for-profit organization serving people with disabilities, has created a unique living environment where both needs are serviced.
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Md. women raising disabled brothers now each other’s anchors
On a summer day last year, Padma Soundararajan lost most of her family in a head-on collision in India. In an instant, her parents and two teenage sisters were gone.
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Vic Chesnutt, Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 45
Vic Chesnutt, whose darkly comic songs about mortality, vulnerability and life’s simple joys made him a favorite of critics and fellow musicians, died Friday in a hospital in Athens, Ga., a family spokesman said. He was 45 and lived in Athens.
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Beating disabilities with hope, determination and support from each other
In this season of caring and hope, I would like to share the moving story of two young men whose futures, far more than most of ours, depends on inner strength and a positive outlook.
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NY judge denies adult homes from intervening in civil-rights cases for mentally ill
As a disability-rights group awaits a decision on a housing remedy for thousands of mentally ill adult-home residents in New York City, a federal judge has ruled that two adult-home associations cannot intervene in the case.
