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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, November 2 to Friday, November 6
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Employment: At this specialty shop, the intellectually disabled are proud businesspeople (The Washington Post) Two 18-year-old individuals with intellectual disabilities are staffing a mobile pop-up store in the parking lot of D.C.’s Union … Continue reading
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Tagged blind and low vision aid, brain crossmodal mapping, cataracts, combat injuries and chronic disease, independent living skills, injured veterans, intellectual disabilities, lanosterol eye drops, loss of speech following stroke, National Council on Disabilities, pejvakin and hearing loss, self-driving cars, stroke, vocational rehabilitation, workplace discrimination against workers with disabilities
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, September 29 – Friday, October 3
Human Interest: Brothers take American road trip before going blind (CNN) Six years ago, two brothers who had been diagnosed with choroideremia, a genetic disorder that progressively leads to blindness, went on a road trip across the United States. A … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D skin graft printer, Alzheimer's Disease, bionic eye, blindness, burn dressing, burn injuries, choroideremia, disabilities in the media, Driving Blind, high frequency hearing loss, injured veterans, job coach, memory improvement activity, memory loss reversal, movie characters with disabilities, retinitis pigmentosa, sheltered workshops, suprachoroidal electrode eye implant, Vermont, wireless speaker system, workers with disabilities, wound care
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, September 22 – Friday, September 26
Human Interest: An American sculptor’s masks restored French soldiers disfigured in World War I (The Washington Post) Anna Coleman Ladd was an American sculptor who made exquisite metal masks for disfigured French World War I veterans. She traveled to France … Continue reading
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Tagged ABLE Act, Alzheimer's Disease, Anna Coleman Ladd, disability employment policy, EEG face mask, facial prostheses, injured veterans, mechanized hand implant, mood monitoring smartphone app, tax-free savings accounts, text read-back app for blind, wheelchair accessible taxis
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, April 28 – Friday, May 2
Human Interest: Soldier who lost leg in Afghanistan vowed ‘I will return.’ This is what it took to get back. (The Washington Post) Following a leg injury sustained by a roadside bomb that resulted in amputation, a US Army soldier … Continue reading
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Tagged accessible housing, amputation, assisted living, behavior modification device, caregivers, cochlear implant, crowdfunding, disability employment, fda, Food and Drug Administration, group home, hearing impairment, homelessness, injured veterans, knee arthritis, laughter, leg amputation, leg prosthesis, medicaid, Medicaid funding, memory improvement activity, National Park Service, osteoarthritis, prosthetic, service animals, service dogs, shock devices, supported living, TBI, traumatic brain injury, unemployment, universal design, walker, walking disability, walking impairment
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