Usually, when advocates for people with disabilities talk about changing perceptions, they’re talking about getting people to see these individuals for what they are capable of doing, rather than what they cannot. John Seelmeyer of the Northern Nevada Business Weekly writes that officials in the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation are first attempting [...]
More than 1,200 delegates from 85 countries are in India currently, attending a three-day conference exploring the role community-based rehabilitation can play in helping make life matter more for people with disabilities. A dispatch yesterday from the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) said the opening remarks from India’s secretary of disability affairs in the ministry of [...]
If you’re the type of person who woke early this morning to take advantage of the Black Friday bargains, please respect the parking spaces reserved for people with disabilities. The temptation to take that vacant spot right next to the mall entrance is understandable after circling the lot for the fourth time; but keep in [...]
This past Wednesday was World Diabetes Day, an official observation established in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization in response to this growing health threat; particularly with regards to Type 2 Diabetes. In the United States alone it is estimated that some 70 million people are at risk of developing [...]
Rachel Nickless’s story, “Push to hire people with disabilities,” in Tuesday’s Australian Financial Review begins with a lot of familiar-sounding circumstances to those found here in the United States. Workforce participation by this demographic trends far behind the national average. Businesses make little to no effort to incorporate people with disabilities into their diversity recruitment [...]
Several post-mortem analyses of the 2012 presidential election have credited the Obama campaign for its portrayal of Mitt Romney as an “outsourcer-in-chief” in the minds of voters who were concerned about American jobs. Aides to the GOP candidate attempted to draw distinctions between the practice of sending jobs overseas and contracting with other American companies [...]
Two op-eds found in last Wednesday’s edition of The Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin, illustrate some of the philosophical differences found within organizations sharing the same mission of providing employment opportunities and career training for people with disabilities. Advocates for people with disabilities in The Badger State have been taking a long, hard look at [...]
Demographics is the buzzword of current post-election analysis. Outlets like ABC News are crediting women, Latinos, and African-Americans for making the difference in re-electing President Obama. But so far there has been no breakdown of how people with disabilities may have voted — or how many went to the polls — on Tuesday to vote [...]
As election night turned into election morning, I realized it would not be possible to stay awake through President Obama’s victory speech. I remained alert enough to see Governor Romney accept the outcome more graciously than other conservatives (cough… Karl Rove… cough), but my eyelids closed soon after the President walked on stage with his [...]
When natural disasters strike, many people with disabilities depend on emergency first responders and the kindness of family members and neighbors to survive. In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy tearing across the eastern seaboard last week, many such stories are still coming to light. CBS This Morning took a good, long look at the impact [...]