April 2009 - Articles
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via abledbody April 29, 2009, 10:07 am Bookshare, the online library for people with print disabilities, today announced a new program that will significantly increase college students' access to digital books and textbooks. The Bookshare University...
Filed under: blind, print disabilities, people with disabilities, BookShare, K-12, Chafee Amendment, digital books, visually impaired, HarperCollins, Jim Fruchterman, copyright exemption, online library, Hachette Book Group, college students, Benetech, pool resources, post-secondary students, digital textbooks, equal educational experience, Scholastic, cost-effective approach for schools
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via Scientific Blogging By Alex Antunes | April 28th, 2009 09:13AM Two days ago, I woke up blind. Couldn't open my eyes-- lids were fused shut. For that early morning hour, I had to question just what I would do as a blind astronomer. I'd had...
Filed under: blind, in-situ radio or magnetometer instruments, Courtney Smith, blind administrators, Goddard Space Flight Center, astronomer, NASA, 'Touch the Universe'-- an astronomy book for the blind, blind project managers, "Not Just Taking Up Space, " profiles on blind scientists, career, web accessibility, ' Walk on the Sun, Non-image measurements put through 'sonification' to help show patters in data, GSFC, translate STEREO sun data into sounds, blind theorists
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via District Dispatch April 28th, 2009 The American Library Association (ALA), the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Association for Research Libraries (ARL) jointly submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office today on...
Filed under: blind, print disabilities, accessible formats, IDEA, same access as people who can see, encourage technologic innovations, misinterpretation about user rights in connection with text-to-speech, professional resources, ACRL, Association for Research Libraries, ARL, needs of visually impaired in foreign countries, fair use, comments, complex process, harmonize eligibility requirements, contract law, growing demographic of people losing sight in later years, local history materials, facilitating access to copyrighted works, NLS, copyright exceptions, Chaffee Amendment, Association for College and Research Libraries, Access for visually impaired readers, scholarly journals, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, American Library Association, research materials, ALA, U.S. Copyright Office, limit confusion between laws
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via The Lantern By Elizabeth Ramos Posted: 4/24/09 Six Ohio State students paneled an open discussion Wednesday about their disabilities. OSU's Mount Leadership Society held its workshop "True Life: I have a disability" in the Royer living...
Filed under: legally blind, students with disabilities, Ohio State University, wheelchair, hearing impaired, OSU, career plans, Asperger's syndrome, accommodations, Scholars Program, accessible facilities, Ohio Disability Services, vision-impaired, life with a disability, dyslexia
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Doctoral student develops a way to post messages on Twitter using mind Brain-computer interface uses electrical impulses generated by thought Twitter simpler than e-mail, and format is good fit for new technology, prof says Development could be a lifeline...
Filed under: paralysis, manipulating a cursor on a computer screen, Brain-Twitter project, empowering, Adam Wilson, high spinal-cord injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, University of Wisconsin, Jean-Dominique Bauby, operating a robotic arm, Lou Gehrig's disease, project directly addressing patients' desires, brain-computer interface technology, Twitter simpler than e-mail, preclinical trials, Justin Williams, Madison, ALS, brainstem stroke, locked-in syndrome, thought generated electrical impulses, help paralyzed people communicate, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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via Reading Eagle By Bruce R. Posten Dr. Francis Salerno, 62, considers himself to be an older doctor who has had a few patients in recent years tell him, "I'd like to see a younger doctor." When he was younger, though, at times he had patients...
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Critics of PTSD diagnostic criteria, including many soldiers, feel that returning veterans' natural process of adjustment is often mislabeled as a dysfunctional state. Soldiers' Stress: What Doctors Get Wrong about PTSD via vawatchdog.org A growing...
Filed under: anxiety, PTSD, depression, American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Critics of PTSD diagnostic criteria, quest to scale back the definition of PTSD, misdiagnosed soldiers receive the wrong treatments, defining criteria too broad, mired in VA system that encourages chronic disability, 1990 National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Survey, academic debate, rampant overdiagnosis, DSM-III, TBI from bomb blasts produces symptoms almost indistinguishable from PTSD, social and reintegration problems, CBT for depression very different, overdiagnosis of PTSD, effectiveness of treatment and disability infrastructure, natural process of adjustment mislabeled as dysfunctional state, mental health and future lives of hundreds of thousands of U.S. combat veterans, post-traumatic stress disorder, expenditure of billions of dollars, diagnostic framework of psychiatry, NVVRS, DSM-IV, exposure-based cognitive-behavioral therapy effective treatment for PTSD
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April 22, 2009 -- By Evelyn Boswell, MSU News Service BOZEMAN -- Surrounded by bug nets and suitcases, Montana State University entomologist Michael Ivie is preparing for another trip to the West Indies. Going this time to St. Lucia, Ivie speculated that...
Filed under: disability, international biodiversity project, resuming career, physical therapy, rehabilitation, deciding to live life as fully as possible, paralyzed, West Indies beetles, working from a wheelchair, MSU, Michael Ivie, St. Lucia, beetle specialist, entomologist, Montana State University
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via The New York Times By Manny Fernandez The city's public housing agency is violating the rights of tenants with disabilities and other health problems by failing to properly maintain its elevators, leaving them stranded for hours during frequent...
Filed under: wheelchair, stroke, fix elevators effectively to avoid repeated breakdowns and provide accommodations for residents who are disabled or have difficulty using the stairs, lawsuit, seeks a court order requiring the agency to maintain elevators in working condition, elevators focus of increased scrutiny since child's death, failing to properly maintain elevators, faulty maintenance, repair elevatorsin a reasonable time, federal class action lawsuit, faulty elevators, Rifkind, stair-lift machine, New York City public housing agency, pro bono legal services, violation of disability and human rights laws, Weiss, rights of tenants with disabilities, frequent breakdowns, law firm Paul, plan to overhaul elevators, nonprofit New York Legal Assistance Group, Wharton & Garrison
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via msnbc.com By Lauran Neergaard WASHINGTON (AP) - Surprising new research says nearly 1.3 million Americans are living with a spinal-cord injury, five times more than previous estimates. Overall, 5.5 million people in the U.S. have some degree of paralysis...
Filed under: largely hidden population, Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, neurologic problems, less extensive injuries uncounted, public relations career, people living longer with paralysis, spinal-cord injury, strokes, added complications of aging on top of a disability, understanding scope of need, paralysis, survey, pushing for health policy changes, cycle of paralysis and poverty, income limits to qualify for Medicaid, mentor to other spinal cord patients, five times more than previous estimates, arms or legs paralyzed or partly paralyzed
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via wcbstv.com by Sean Hennessey The video, shot at a charity dinner by Liz Benjamin of the New York Daily News, shows New York's chief executive literally flipping out. A gymnastics display ended the animated parody of a political ad. The gathering...
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via Connecticut Law Tribune By Mary E. Kelly In the past year there have been fundamental changes made to the Federal Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). With the FMLA, there are changes in the employer notification...
Filed under: Americans with Disabilities Act, ADA, stroke, insulin pump, changes, Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act, Leave Act, attempt to make record keeping easier, essential functions of a job, legal impact of disability, thyroid cancer, FMLA, reasonable accommodations, newly clarified definition of disability, Type 1 diabetes, intermittent leave, unresolved questions, equal access to programs, Federal Family Medical, new regulations, definition of what constitutes a disability
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via cnet news by Matt Hickey March 27, 2009 4:00 AM PDT AbledBody helps disabled navigate gadget world Assistive tech for the disabled is an important topic people may not give much thought to, even though an estimated 54 million Americans are considered...
Filed under: people with disabilities, smartphones, new touch technique, gadgets, The Illustrated Guide to Assistive Technology, Suzanne Robitaille, Apple iPhone app that manages diabetes, at work, original news, assistive tech, trends, at home, expert opinion, sourced news, growing disability market, consumer tech-focused site, BookShare
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via YAHOO! SPORTS By ERIC OLSON, AP Sports Writer Apr 11, 7:43 pm EDT OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Mark Wetzel cant tell you exactly what his wife or children look like. He can, however, tell you how to hit a 95 mph fastball. Even one of baseballs greatest hitters...
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via The New York Times By Miguel Helft The featureless glassy screens of touch-screen phones may seem like a forbidding barrier for blind users, who often rely on tactile clues to feel their way around. But a pair of engineers at Google, T.V. Raman, who...
Filed under: blind, Google, dialer that works on relative positions, Phone aps, Android software, T-Mobile G1, Charles Chen, touch-screen phones, locator function that combines GPS with Google Maps and the G1’s compass, universal design, shell application, method for inputting text, T.V. Raman, phone can detect motion
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