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Alexandra Pecci shares in The Washington Post her experiences of traveling with her 5-year-old daughter, who uses a walker. She recounts traveling from Rio de Janeiro’s Escadaria Selaron to the “Rocky Steps” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, encouraging families with disabled children to show them the world. Read more.
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Every correctional facility is subject to the ADA, but officials are still figuring out how to comply with it. Journalists can keep tabs on the resulting lawsuits – cases Krisberg says will be a “slam dunk” – as they make their way through the courts. They can also monitor if and how the ADA improves conditions in prisons.
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Parents have long struggled to find compassionate health care for adult children with profound disabilities. Those in Kentucky now have a place to go. Read more.
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ESPN’s Impact 25 tells the stories of men and women who made a difference for women in sports over the past year. In this entry, Amy Purdy talks about her battle with bacterial meningitis that destroyed her hands and feet. Read more.
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House approves new savings accounts for people with disabilities
The House has passed legislation to create tax-free savings accounts for people with disabilities. Passed by a vote of 404-17, the bill known as the ABLE Act is intended to help Americans with disabilities pay for the associated expenses, including medical costs and finding employment. Read more
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Separated From Brother, Left to Toil Far From Home
Leon Jones, 64, has an intellectual disability and a swollen right hand that aches from 40 years of hanging live turkeys on shackles that swing them to their slaughter. He also may be the last working member of the so-called Henry’s Boys — men recruited from Texas institutions decades ago to eviscerate turkeys, only to wind up living in virtual servitude, without many basic rights. Read more
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Supreme Court to weigh police obligations under ADA
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to hear San Francisco’s appeal of a ruling allowing a knife-wielding woman with schizophrenia to sue police for shooting her, a case that could set standards for police treatment of people with disabilities. Read more
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Putting “ice bucket challenge” cash into action
The summer’s ALS “ice bucket challenge” social media campaign brought in $115 million to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Now, researchers are spending that money in a race to find treatments and a cure. Read more
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Tim McGuire, Frank Russell Chair for the Business of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, interviews New York Times reporter Dan Barry. Barry is the winner of the 2014 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability for “The ‘Boys’ in the Bunkhouse,” which describes in text, photos and video the lives of men who for 30 years worked in an Iowa turkey processing plant for almost no pay. The interview took place Nov. 3, 2014, as part of the Cronkite Schools “Must See Mondays” speaker series.
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TEDx Talks Have a Disability Problem—but This Incredible Young Woman Is Working to Change That
A young blind and deaf Harvard Law School graduate gave a TEDx talk on disability rights and is pushing to make future TEDx talks more accessible through the use of captioning. Read more.
