MSNBC
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Job losses send disability claims soaring
ELKHART, Ind.— With an aching shoulder and sore hip, Michael Spratt figured he’d have to apply for disability benefits someday. He just didn’t think that day would come so soon.
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(Middletown, N.Y.) Times Herald-Record
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Understanding epilepsy: one woman’s story
While Adria Goldman Gross was shopping in a Lord & Taylor’s Department Store in Manhattan, she had a grand mal seizure.
Seacoastonline.com (N.H.)
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Report: New Hampshire fails on mental health care
DURHAM — A new report from the University of New Hampshire’s Institute on Disability and the N.H. Bureau of Behavioral Health calls for a fundamental revision of the state’s approach for treating mental and physical health and substance use disorders.
New Resource for Disability Statistics
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A new resource for disability statistics has been announced by disability.gov, the Annual Disability Statistics Compendium.
The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Statistics and Demographics compiled the data, which include statistics from federal sources and surveys on disability prevalence and population size, including breakdowns by state and disability type. The site also includes employment and earnings, education, health and health care coverage, rehabilitation and participation in benefit programs.
This resource is posted in the disability resource page.
RTDNF and Ivanhoe Broadcast News Call for Applicants
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The RTDNF and Ivanhoe Broadcast News has announced a call for applicants for a one-week health reporting fellowship for television and new media journalists. The fellowship is open to a working reporter or producer at a television station or new media newsroom with fewer than 10 years of experience. Applications are due by Feb. 1, 2010. More information and application forms are available on RTNDA.org.
Associated Press
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Efforts under way to make Web more accessible
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Imagine not being able to use a mouse to open a Web browser or a keyboard to type an e-mail. What if you couldn’t distinguish colors on a computer screen or type the distorted letters in order to buy concert tickets or enroll in a class.
The Northwest Indiana Times
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Even more difficult for region wheelchair users than getting into public buildings or businesses with accessibility barriers is getting anything done about the obstacles, state and region civil rights experts say.
WTOC-TV (Savanna, Ga.)
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SC to add photo ID to disability parking placards
South Carolina has some new rules come the new year. One effects disabled drivers, but is targeting the people who may abuse the use of disabled parking placards, intended to help the disabled, but used by others.
USA Today
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Since hearing, states take little action on restraint in schools
A handful of states have moved to restrict or regulate school staff members who restrain or seclude hard-to-handle children against their will in the wake of abuses exposed by congressional investigators seven months ago. But many more states have done little or nothing, advocates say.
The Salt Lake Tribune
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Convicted felons are regulars at sheltered workshop for the disabled
Tracy R. Hester was arrested and hauled into court five times for crimes ranging from battery to first-degree murder before landing in a state-sponsored job training program at Columbus Production Services.