Autistic kids fall victim to parents who run amok. Click here for article.

About Deborah Kendrick.at the National Braille Press

For people with disabilities, time has brought progress. Click here for article.

Disability community needs to unite. Click here for article.

Allan Appel--Allan Appel writes a biweekly column about disabilities. He can be reached c/o Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers, 1939 S. Federal Highway, P.O. Box 9009, Stuart, FL 34994, or e-mail at aappel223@yahoo.com.

Allan Appel: Disability community needs to unite. Click here for article.

Applying for a job with the Americans with Disabilities Act Click here for article.

Allan Appel: 'Murderball' lets us know there's life after disability. Click here for article.

How to start an end-of-life or disability discussion By ALLAN APPEL -Click here for article.

Allan Appel: Allan Appel: Avoid situation like Schiavo's with advance directives.Click here.

Allan Appel: ADA complaints should be mediated. Click here for column

Allan Appel: Disability history comes alive in museum

The Disability History Museum chronicles stories of people with disabilities. By doing so, it both fosters understanding and seeks to dispel popular assumptions and stereotypes about disability. Click here for article.

End war on drugs Misguided DEA's witch hunt leaves patients hurting. Click here for article.

Barbara McKee: Disabled benefits Social Security wants some people to wait years for payments. Click here for article.

Barbara J. McKee: 15 years after ADA, our disabled still battle prejudice. Click here for article.

Barbara J. McKee: Greedy nonprofits swindle disabled workers.What if I told you there were high-paying government jobs for the severely disabled? I'd be swamped by e-mails or called a liar. But it's true - if you have the right disability. Click here for article.**

Some words worse than having disability. Someone I spoke with the other day kept using the word "handicapped." Since he worked for a disability rights organization, I thought he should know better than to use that word to refer to people with disabilities. I had a strong, almost physical reaction to the word, and finally told him - in no uncertain terms - to stop using it. Later, I wondered why his choice of terms mattered so much. Click here for article.

A DALLIMORE is the Systems Change Coordinator for Central Coast Center for Independent Living. She writes a monthly column on "Disability Awareness" that appears Thursdays in the Community section. Contact her at ddallimore@cccil.org.

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Deafness Does Not Equal Disability: First, I must say that I am aware that the Deaf are protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and for that I am grateful. Click here for more.

Overcoming disability to create fine art The Chelsea studio space provides disabled New York metro artists the opportunity to create fine art as opposed to simple arts and crafts projects. The media used in the pieces ranges from watercolors, acrylic and oil paints to crayons. Click here for article.

Wheel Power From Malaysia

About Anthony Thanasayan

By ANTHONY THANASAYAN

Celebrating guide dogs Click here for article.

A day to remember-
By ANTHONY THANASAYAN Click here for article.

AIR RAVES

Vision for the blind. Click here for more.

A good view at the movies for the disabled. Click here for article.

Dispelling apprehensions of meeting disabled persons. Click here for more.

A little adventure with Rottweilers. Click here for article.

Admirable effortAn able-bodied man in his 30s who's seated is approached by an elderly woman, followed by a pregnant lady and later, a blind man. And despite knowing their predicament, he refuses to give up his seat for any one of them. Click here for article.

Pet power

THE tsunami tragedy of Dec 26 last month continues to make a deep impact in many of our lives. Some of you wrote to
Wheel Power to ask if I had come across accounts of how disabled people in the affected areas were surviving the trauma and devastation caused by the killer tides. Inclusion Daily Express ..Click here for article.

Mary JohnsonEditor of

Editor of Raggededgemagazine

Edge-Centric Blog

A long way yet to go-Judges and others still don't grasp that the 15-year-old Americans With Disabilities Act is about rights, not benefits. By Mary Johnson Click here for more.

Farther Than the Eye Can See Yesterday, I rewatched a film by a friend of mine named Mike Brown that is really stellar and deserves mention here. The film is called Farther Than the Eye Can see and it is about the amazing expedition of Eric Weihenmayer’s, a blind climber who summitted Everest. This historic ascent of Everest is a real inspiration to anyone with a disability, and hell, to anyone. Click here for article.

By Elizabeth J. Carr

Beyond Stereotypes: Untold Stories for Any BeatCovering all the apects of your beat includes covering disability. Click here for more.

Jessica Steinmetz BellaOnline's Disabilities Editor

Taking a Cruise? What are you going to do this summer? I know that choosing a vacation destination when you have a disability is not simple. How about something different? Click here for article.

8 Million Disabled Workers Social Security Privatization and Disability By MARTA RUSSELL

The Social Security privatization debate has omitted the fate in store for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) as a part of the program's family of benefits. Social Security not only provides Old-Age protection, it consists of often overlooked Survivors and Disability Insurance protections as well. Click here for more.

Capitol Hill Update

"Capitol Hill Update, February 7, 2005". Click here for more.

The Arc and UCP Disability Policy Collaboration Launches One-to-One Network. Click here for more.

Here are the top disability rights news headlines of 2004 as chosen by Inclusion Daily Express readers. Click here for more.

Inclusion Daily Express By Dave ReynoldsNew Items Every Day

Focusing on disabled people's sexual needs. Clik here for article.

Matt Schuman, schuman@greeleytrib.com

Essential Care Behind the long hours of stressful, physical work, nurses aides become more than just hired help. They become family. Click here for article.

LadyBugLive.Com Click here for latest interviews.

Mona Hughes On Radio Lady BugLive: A Special Discussion on Disabilities Click here.

Schiavo is not better off dead than disabled. Click here for article.

A solution to high cost of Medicaid. Click here for articles.

A look ahead to independent living needs. Click here for more.

Laura Hershey's Cripcommentary.com

Disabilities and Dollars

From Ragged Edge Online: The origins of independent living
By David Pfeiffer

The independent living movement did not originate with Ed Roberts. Before his death, Ed expressed that thought to me himself. Still, Ed contributed an idea which made the independent living movement thrive -- and made it unique. Click here for article.

About Daniel J. Vance

Schiavo case gives people with disabilities pause. Click here for article.

Columnist with Disabilities; More to come.

Kate McCarthy Barnett - RI Providence Journal, Marilyn Salisbury - San Diego Union Tribune, Barbara McKee--Albuquerque Journal, Betsy MacMichael - Raleigh Herald-Sun Deborah Kendrick - Cincinnati Enquirer, Helen Henderson - Toronto Star, Jane Pic Adams - Times Picayune, Karen L. Meyer - ABC7 Chicago, Geoff Adams-Spink -- BBC News Online, Matt Schuman - Greeley Tribune, Linda Walls - Asbury Park Press, Wesley J. Smith - National Review Online.

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Bill Clinton Helps End Soda Sales In Schools.-Nearly 35 million students across the U.S. will be affected by the deal between the American Beverage Association, which represents the majority of school vending bottlers, and anti-obesity advocates. Click here for article.

Clinton Says Bush Is 'Flat Wrong' on Kyoto--MONTREAL Dec 9, 2005 — Former President Clinton told a global audience of diplomats, environmentalists and others Friday that the Bush administration is "flat wrong" in claiming that reducing greenhouse gas emissions to fight global warming would damage the U.S. economy. Click here for article.

Clinton's Crusade On Child Obesity--On CBS' Road to Ruin tour of the United States, CBS News correspondent Mika Brzezinski stopped in Little Rock, Ark., where former Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton's favorite dishes included cheeseburgers and hot tamales. Click here for article and video.

Clinton takes on childhood obesity. Click here for article.

Clinton, UNICEF set up fund for Asian tsunami victims. Click here for article.

RI-MAN Humanoid Robot Cares for the Elderly. Click here for article.

Stem cell pioneer offers hope to the paralysed--The first British attempt to treat paralysed spinal cord injury patients with their own stem cells was announced yesterday. Click here for artical.

Hundreds of South Koreans Volunteer for Stem Cell Research -"I spent the past 22 years in tears and I had no hope," said Kim, who was paralyzed from the chest down in a 1983 traffic accident with a drunken driver. Click here for article.

Stem cells help woman walk again. Click here for article.

Thousands Honor Parks With Songs, Thanks. Click here for article.

Tens of thousands mourn US rights icon Rosa Parks Click here for article.

The Other Movement That Rosa Parks Inspired-By Sitting Down, She Made Room for the Disabled. Click here for article.

Rosa Parks given unprecedented honour -The late civil rights activist Rosa Parks will be the first woman to lie in honour in the United States Capitol Rotunda - a tribute formerly reserved for presidents, soldiers and prominent politicians. Click here for article.

Rosa Lee Parks, 'Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,'

Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dies at 92Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. Click here for article.

ADA Case Could Be Key Test for Roberts Civil rights advocates were optimistic in May when the Supreme Court agreed to consider a Georgia case that will decide whether disabled inmates can sue states over prison conditions under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Click here for article.

Hoyer Awarded George Bush Medal for the Empowerment of People with Disabilities ; WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) was awarded the George Bush Medal for the Empowerment of People with Disabilities last night at the National Council on Disability's 15th Anniversary Observance of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Click here for more.

Soc. Security Revamps Disability Benefits Click here for article.

Rhode Island woman Kristen Connors has been named Ms. Wheelchair America after months of controversy.

Pageant ends controversy, picks new Ms. Wheelchair AmericaALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Rhode Islander Kristen Connors was named Ms. Wheelchair America, capping months of squabbling over the pageant's qualifying process that divided the disabled community. Click here for more.

Cancer patient Christopher Campbell sits on the side of his bed in his home Monday, June 6, 2005, in Portland, Ore. Campbell who has a medical marijuana card, said he will not cease using the drug to quell his pain and improve his appetite. 'It's not going to stop me, that's for sure,' said Campbell, 58, who suffers from lymphoma and has had his spleen, and portions of his pancreas and stomach removed. [AP]

Reefer madness: Is sanity breaking out? Click here for article. (registration maybe required)

Where Is the States' Rights
Argument Now?

Former Beauty Queen Appeals Conviction. Home video from prosecutors has shown Henderson on vacation, picking up her children at the same time she was claiming disability from illnesses such as migraine headaches. Click here for article.

FOLLOW-UP

Disability fraud earns prison term for former Mrs. Minnesota International. Click here for article.See more on thisstory on

Denise Henderson talks during an interview at a park near her home in Woodbury, Minnesota, August 29.

Former beauty queen found guilty of cheating Social Security with false disability claim. Clik here for article.

Employers To Recognise Talent, Not Disability, When They See It-UK--Speaking today at the TUC in her first speech as Minister for Disabled People, Anne McGuire insisted that the Government had rightly paved the way with equality legislation. Click here for article.

Business should recognise talent - not disability. Click here for more.

Disabled Lebanese take part in a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1975-1990 civil war. The people of Lebanon have been called on to take part in national reconciliation events for the first time since end of the war.(AFP/Joseph Barrak)

Papal kiss inspired disabled guitarist Click here for article.

“A disability is not an inability” Click here for article.

Feds Employ Fewer DisabledClick here for story.

Canada's Chantal Peticlerc holds her trophy after receiving the Laureus World Sportsperson Of The Year With A Disability award Monday, May 16 2005, at the Estoril Casino, outside Lisbon, Portugal. (AP Photo/Paulo Duarte)

Former US presidents Bill Clinton (2nd L), George H.W. Bush (R) and Jimmy Carter (2nd R), and current President George W. Bush (L) arrive for the dedication and opening of the William J. Clinton Center and Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.(AFP/Tim Sloan). Former Presidents gather for opening of Clinton's library Click here for article.

Study Challenges Polio as Cause Of FDR's Illness. Click here for article.

Girl With Cerebral Palsy Fights for Rights

Rasha has begun a crusade to make airplane restrooms bigger after having a hard time negotiating one in her wheelchair while flying home last summer from a visit with her grandparents in Israel. Click here for article.

Families struggle alongside wounded troops. Click here for article.

US runs low on soldiers A radio is playing Marvin Gaye's What's Going On as the Veterans for Peace create a memorial known as Arlington West on the beach beside Santa Monica Pier. They are placing 1008 white crosses in the sand - one for each US soldier killed in Iraq as of September 12. Click here for article.

Military's disability benefits under fire. Click here for article.

Few injured, ill troops get disability pay they requested

WASHINGTON - The military's system for compensating soldiers who become sick, injured or wounded can be as unforgiving as the battlefield: Fewer than one in 10 applicants receives the long-term disability payments they request. Click here for article.

Wounded and forgotten; Many veterans eligible for disability payments don't get them, and people are asking why. Click here for article.

Maimed in Iraq, then mistreated, neglected, and hidden in America. Click here for more.

Jane Pauley ready for her close-up

(She's even provided her own personal daytime talk topic: revealing in her autobiography that she spent time in a hospital in 2001 for treatment of bipolar disorder brought on by a rare reaction to prescription drugs.) Click here for article.

Jane Pauley says she was treated for bipolar disorder. Click here for article.

Boy Who Overcame Illness To Write Poetry Books Dies At 13

Poet Mattie Stepanek, 13, a champion for Muscular Dystrophy, is shown in this undated publicity photograph in his role as Muscular Dystrophy Association national goodwill ambassador as he poses with former president Jimmy Carter. Stepanek died June 22, 2004, surrounded by his mother and close friends at Children's National Medical Center, in Washington, DC. Stepanek, who was affected by mitochondrial myopathy, came to national attention with an appearance on the 2001 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon and was the author of several books of poetry. Click here for more.

Toby, a 10-year-old capuchin monkey, places a mouth stick used by paralyzed people to push buttons or manipulate items between the teeth of her trainer Alison Payne, as she trains in the tasks that monkeys provide for the disabled at the 'Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled' organization's 'monkey college' facility in the Brighton section of Boston in this photograph taken May 7, 2004. The organization, which has already trained more than 93 monkeys to live with and assist severely disabled or paralyzed people, hopes to enroll hundreds of new student monkeys in its 2-3 year 'monkey college' training program. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/FEATURE/LIFE-MONKEYS. For more click here.

Rep. James Langevin Honored By Disability Group

Congressman James Langevin is being honored by a national cerebral palsy organization for his work on disability issues. Click here for article.

Cutting the spokes of the wheelchair , By Mike Ervin

If you're wondering where President Bush plans to find the money to pay for the war and tax cuts, take a look at his latest budget proposal. Millions of those dollars are coming out of social programs important to people with disabilities. Click here for rticle.

Disability needn't be liability. Click here for article.

Rachael Scdoris, a legally blind sled dog musher from Bend, has earned the right to fulfill her dream of competing in the 2005 Alaskan Iditarod by placing sixth in the 400-mile John Beargrease Marathon Race. Click here for article.

NOME, Alaska -- Mitch Seavey won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in nine days, 12 hours, 20 minutes and 22 seconds on Tuesday night, his 11th run on the 1,100-mile route from Anchorage to Nome. Clickhere for article.

GABBY: The Girl Who Feels No Pain. Click here for article.

Disney's Segway Ban Upsets Some Disabled

Meredy Jenkins, a graphic designer, uses her Segway HT to get around her neighborhood in Orlando, Fla. Thursday, Jan. 29, 2004. Jenkins, who has multiple sclerosis, is one of several people with walking problems who are upset that Walt Disney World won't let the Segways into its parks. (AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove) . Click here for more.

Globalizing Internet Brings Unexpected Problems. Click here for article.

Talks Seek Global Internet Ground Rules. Click here for article.

PC eye-control for severely disabled. Click here for article.

They Lose.

Key Parts of Campaign Finance Law Upheld. Click here for article.

Friends and foes of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform made their case before the Supreme Court Monday, some claiming the electoral process itself was at stake.

Kenneth Starr to lead legal team challenging campaign finance legislation.

"Pretending That Nothing's Wrong" by Frank G. Bowe

The disability rights movement faces a challenge, right now. It needs to put a stake in the ground, proclaiming that things are NOT just fine, thank you. Click here for message*.

The New Eugenics

LONDON -- One of the most profound and layered questions raised by recent genetic advances is this: Do we as a species still want babies born with genetic disabilities? Click here for article.

Garrett v UAB: The Epilogue

The 11th U.S. Court of Appeals said UAB is not exempt from lawsuits under the federal law protecting workers with disabilities, because the school waived its immunity from such lawsuits by accepting federal grants...After the Supreme Court ruling, the case was sent back to U.S. District Judge William Acker to consider whether state agencies lose immunity when they accept federal funds. Acker ruled against Garrett, and it was that decision that was reversed by the appeals court Thursday.Click here for article.

Japan ready to market "robot suit".

TOKYO (AFP) - Japanese companies are preparing for the commercial launch of a "robot suit" that helps aged or physically disabled people walk, get up the stairs or seat themselves to relax without a chair. Click here for article.

Keegan Reilly, a student at Oregon State University in Corvallis from Soldotna, Ak., jubilates upon conquering the 3,776-meter (12,385-foot) peak of Mount Fuji by pushing up his custom-made mountain bike by arms Thursday, Sept. 4, 2003. Reilly, who lost the use of his legs in a car accident as a teenager, reached the peak after a four-day climb, the first successful climb of its kind. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)

TOKYO - An American mountaineer who lost the use of his legs in a car accident seven years ago resumed his slow but steady ascent of Mount Fuji on Tuesday after his attempt to climb Japan's highest mountain nearly ended on its first day. Click here for article.

Anne Kinkella rides Metro to work with her Segway, accompanied by Metro Transit Police Officer James Fistner. (Photos James A. Parcell -- The Washington Post) Disabled Woman on a Segway Challenges System's Rules on Access. Click here for article.

Scientists Wonder if Einstein, Newton Were Autistic. Click here for article.

Gary Knight and his mother, Joann Hall, talk to a reporter Sunday, June 1, 2003, in Sweet Springs, Mo. Knight, 48, has cerebral palsy and has driven a golf cart around the small town for six years. Last April, on one of his first excursions of the spring, Knight says the small town's police chief told him to 'go home.' He's been reluctant to use the cart since then. Hall has filed a federal complaint on Knight's behalf under the Americans with Disabilities Act. (AP Photo/Kelley McCall.)

Poverty Tied to Disability Among Black Children. Click here for article.

Disabling chronic health conditions are more prevalent and have risen at a faster rate in black children than in whites nationwide, a disparity largely explained by poverty, a study suggests. Click here for article.

The California Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for disabled workers to sue their employers for discrimination in a decision that will affect hundreds of pending lawsuits in California. Click here for article.

Actor Tom Cruise , shown in this Sept. 24, 2002, file photo in Paris, said he learned to overcome his learning disability through Scientology. When I was about 7, I had been labeled dyslexic, he told People magazine for its July 21 issue. Id try to concentrate on what I was reading, then Id get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything Id read. I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb. (AP Photo/Francois Mori,file)

Managing time with severe disability. Click here for article.

CNN MONEY:

The U.S. unemployment rate would be substantially bigger if not for a 60 percent surge in the number of Americans drawing disability benefits since 1984, according to recent research by economists at MIT and the University of Chicago. Click here for article.

Travelers With Disabilities Could Spend $27 Billion Per Year, Says New Harris Interactive Poll. Click here for more.

Pennsylvania Gov. Schweiker Administration Announces $1.5 Million to Improve Home Accessibility For Pennsylvanians With Disabilities.
Click here for press release.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) One in five Rhode Islanders is considered disabled, a rate that's the highest in New England, according to a new analysis of 2000 census data by Brown University researchers. Click here for article.

W3C finalises disability guidelines. Click here for article.

Dealing With Disabilities - semantics are important in disability lingo...Click here for article.

Not a Place to Leave a Relative. Click here for article.

High Court Ruling Gives HMO Patients More Choices. Click here for article.

Communicating can be a challenge for people with disabilities of all kinds. Serving the needs of those customers is the mission of Verizon's Center for Customers with Disabilities, a pioneering facility, now a decade old, which has become a model for facilities of its type. Click here for article.

Empowering Americans with disabilities to become a greater part of the 21st century workforce is the goal of a new online resource called DisabilityInfo.gov, launched today by Secretary of Labor, Elaine L. Chao, and developed by Arlington, VA-based, devIS. Click here for more.

The Media Access Group at WGBH announces the launch of a newly designed, integrated Web site which combines the considerable resources of the world's premiere provider of media access solutions for people with disabilities. Developed in conjunction with WGBH's award-winning Interactive Department. Click here for more.

Defining a disability. Click here for article.

Les Nelson: People with disabilities need details about accessibility. Click here for article.

With one in five Americans -- 53 million people -- having some kind of disability and the aging baby boomers pushing up this ratio, LifeCare®, Inc., a leading provider of comprehensive work and life services, is ahead of the times in providing easy-access to information for employees with disabilities. Click here for press release.

Selling to the Disabled Can Mean More Than Ads. Click here for article.

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