The (Greenville, N.C.) Daily Reflector
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GameSpot
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Visually impaired gamer sues Sony Online
It’s not uncommon for blind gamers to feel invisible in addition to visually impaired. For instance, when gamer Brandon Cole wrote THQ a letter suggesting changes to make its Smackdown series of WWE wrestling games more accessible to the blind, he received a form letter back thanking him for his appreciation of the game’s graphics.
La Crosse (Wis.) Tribune
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State officials, disability advocates disagree over new policy
Thousands of people with disabilities could lose their sheltered work program jobs due to a new state Department of Health Services policy, disability advocates said Tuesday.
The Allentown Morning Call
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Poverty and disability greatly correlated, new study shows
Hard economic times are even harder when you have a disability. But poverty and disability don’t have to be synonymous if we design our policies well.
United Press International
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Health literacy lower for the disabled
COLUMBIA, Mo., Nov. 3 (UPI) — Some 90 million Americans have low health literacy but those with limited English and disabilities have even lower health literacy, U.S. researchers said.
Loveland (Co.) Reporter-Herald
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Thompson school board to discuss special ed program changes
Inclusion is key to the Re-Imagining Special Education plan that aims to increase the presence of students with disabilities in the regular classroom.
The Texas Tribune
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Disabled students restrained, injured in public schools
AUSTIN – Texas educators forcibly pinned down students with disabilities more than 18,000 times in the last school year, sometimes injuring them in the process.
The Washington Post
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Long, hard road to marketplace for Vanda drug
Early next year, if all goes according to plan, doctors will be able to prescribe a new antipsychotic drug for patients with schizophrenia. When that happens, investors in a local pharmaceutical firm will surely breathe a sigh of relief.
The Florida Times-Union
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Florida groups applaud hate crimes law expansion
Advocates for people with disabilities and in the GLBT community are cheering a new federal hate crimes law.
The (Fredericksburg, Va.) Free Lance-Starn
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Disabled workers’ employers lauded
This year, Americans faced unemployment in record numbers. Those with disabilities were hardest hit, a new study shows.