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Tag Archives: Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act
Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, May 30 to Friday, June 3
Employment: Ford eyes workers with autism (Disability Scoop) Ford Motor Company is launching a pilot program this week designed to improve recruitment and retention of employees with autism. Through an initiative called FordInclusiveWorks, the company intends to establish five new … Continue reading
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Tagged Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act, affordable hearing aids, ASD, asthma, autism, Autism Alliance of Michigan, employees with autism, FordInclusiveWorks, Health and Environmental Tracker (HET), hearing aids, neuroprosthesis, neurorecovery physical therapy, Savonix assessment app, stroke, treadmill walking
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, January 12 – Friday, January 16
Human Interest: Heart problems, deafness influenced Beethoven’s music, study says (The Hearing Review) According to researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Washington, Ludwig van Beethoven’s musical compositions might have been affected by both his deafness and … Continue reading
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Tagged Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act, Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids Act, Alzheimer's Disease, Automated Device for Asthma Monitoring (ADAMM), blind students, braille, Braille Challenge, Braille Institute, deaf composer, flexible body worn glucose meter, flexible electronic implant, Off Vertical Axis Rotational Device (OVARD), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, SCI, spinal cord injury, stroke, TBI, traumatic brain injury
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, July 21 – Friday, July 25
Human Interest: ‘Extraordinary’ little boy finishes triathlon with his disabled brother (NBC Today) An 8-year-old boy did not want his 6-year-old sibling who uses a wheelchair to miss out on a triathlon, so he pulled and pushed his little brother … Continue reading
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Tagged AAC, AAC device, ABLE Act, accessible Internet applications, accessible Internet services, Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act, adapted bicycle trailer, adapted buggy, Advocacy groups, exercise for people with disabilities, exercise to quit smoking, FCC, hearing aids, hearing in noise, Internet Fast Lanes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, robotic grasping device, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, smoking and depression, United Nations Convention, United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Verizon
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