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Disabled Still Get Cool Reception in U.S. Workplace
While many American companies say that hiring people with disabilities is important, few of them actually hire these job seekers or take steps to provide a welcoming work environment, a new survey finds.
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Obama signs bill to expand technology access for disabled
President Obama this afternoon signed legislation spearheaded by Representative Edward J. Markey that significantly expands the digital horizons of the disabled.
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Finding Support For Children With Disabilities
Parents of children with severe disabilities have many challenges and concerns. One big worry is who will care for their children after the parents are gone.
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Veteran journalist reflects on disability law in local speech
Equality, full employment, protection under the law. As journalist John Hockenberry saw it, these were the things the Americans with Disabilities Act promised in 1990, when he had already lived nearly half his life as a paraplegic.
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Grievance update — in which I inadvertently get the teacher I’m writing about suspended
Kathleen Nosek, the Sheffield special-ed teach whose grievance I’ve been writing about, was suspended with pay this afternoon as a direct result of my visit to her classroom on Tuesday. I filed the story tonight and you can read it in today’s paper.
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Renew Therapeutic Riding Center focuses on ability over disability
The stable doors opened for the first time Tuesday evening at the Renew Therapeutic Riding Center in Holland.
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ArtPrize artists with disabilities: Words fail her, but art doesn’t
Elaine Hoogeboom takes a deep breath before she starts to talk about her art.
She knows what she wants to say. But she has aphasia, a disorder that results from damage to portions of the brain that are responsible for language. It’s hard for her to remember words, put together sentences and understand what people have told her.
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Military Surplus Store Sued For Firing Worker Over Seizures
A Denver-area military surplus store is accused of a firing an employee who suffered epileptic seizures in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act, according to a federal discrimination lawsuit.
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Disability Awareness Conference held in Grand Rapids
Monday was disability awareness day in Grand Rapids and as part of that, a collaboration of ten local agencies took part in a disability awareness conference.
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Job fair focuses on helping disabled people find work
Once a construction worker, Stan Wulf now works in collections for JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s auto finance department in downtown Phoenix. He was hired full time in June after nine months as a temp.
