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NAMI and Mental Health in the Latinx/Hispanic Community
For Suicide Prevention Awareness Week, we are highlighting a mental health organization in the US that also provides information, resources, and assistance to the Latinx/Hispanic community: The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is the largest grassroots mental health organization … Continue reading
Answered Questions: Monthly News for the Disability Community
Answered Questions is a monthly resource for the Spanish language Disability Community that fills an information need. Each month, we look through the searches on our blog and through the information requests made by our patrons who speak Spanish and … Continue reading
Posted in Answer Queue, Respuestas a las Preguntas
Tagged accessibility, Apps, bipolar disorder, causes, cognitive deterioration, depression, Disabilities, disability, education, employment, genetics, NIDILRR, NIDILRR Articles, NIDILRR Research, people with disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, rehabilitation, research, Spanish-language, technology, treatments
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, May 12 – Friday, May 16
Human Interest: A man became a math wiz after suffering brain injuries. Researchers think they know why. (The Washington Post) A severe concussion has turned a furniture salesman from Tacoma, Washington into a mathematical genius who sees the world through … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly News Roundup
Tagged acquired savant syndrome, ADA, ASD, attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder adhd, autism spectrum disorder, behavior training software, bipolar disorder, brain injury, cerebral palsy, charter schools, deaf and hard of hearing, FBI, Interstate Telecommunications Relay Services Fund, job interview training, mindfulness, mobile phone app, robotic prosthesis, section 504, special education, traumatic brain injury, Xbox One Kinect
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What are psychiatric disabilities?
Psychiatric disability is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as a “mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of an individual; a record of impairment; or being regarded as having such an … Continue reading
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Tagged ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, anorexia, anorexia nervosa, antisocial personality disorder, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, bulimia, bulimia nervosa, depersonalization disorder, Disabilities, disability, dissociative disorders, dissociative identity disorder, eating disorders, EEOC, emotional conditions, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, mental health, mental illness, NARIC, NIDRR, NIDRR projects, NIDRR research, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic disorder, people with disabilities, personality disorders, phobias, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, psychiatric disabilities, PTSD, SAMHSA, schizophrenia
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Collection Spotlight from the National Rehabilitation Information Center 