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Unlimited Potential Theater celebrates its 20th anniversary with June 27 performance By Megan Sullivan Posted: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 MORE than 54 million Americans have a disability. According to a U.S. Census Bureau report released in December 2008...
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Congratulations to Nicholas MacLean. All of your hard work paid off, and we in the Gettinghired community are proud of you. We wish you well in your chosen career with the Marine Corps. Foothill High School student overcomes learning disability via InsideBayArea...
Filed under: dyslexia, learning disabilities, program reduced because of budget cuts, program restored in June, problem child tag, CA-based program, disciplinary problems a cover, San Jose, high school diploma, site facilitators, volunteer tutors, special education classes, Barton Reading program, aircraft engineering career goal, daily tutor, reading level below second grade
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If you live in the Los Angeles area, check out this intriguing event, and stop by the Reading Rights Coalition booth #207 in Zone B to lend your support and cheer the coalition on as they continue to advocate for access to e-books for all of us! Thank...
Filed under: National Federation of the Blind, blind, Amazon.com, Kindle 2, mainstream access to books, print disabilities, Reading Rights Coalition, text-to-speech, dyslexia, spinal cord injury, Randy Shaw, University of California at Los Angeles, equal education, e-book reader, LA Times Festival of Books, Marc Maurer, learning issues, processing issues, strokes, seniors, low vision, a way for books to reach a broader market, Deborah Kent, civil rights issue
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We were delighted to learn that Amazon.com, responding to an online petition asking for accessible controls on the Kindle 2, has promised to make the reading device's controls speak aloud. That is great news for people who cannot see the controls;...
Filed under: Visually Impaired, blind, Amazon.com, learning or processing issues, Kindle 2, seniors losing vision, online petition, e-books, mainstream access to books, demonstration, the Authors' Guild, print disabilities, spinal cord injuries, people recovering from strokes, Reading Rights Coalition, text-to-speech, Amazon, dyslexia
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