Penny For Your Thoughts
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The message showed up in my e-mail in box seven times within the space of an hour and a half. Now, it's true that I am a member of lots of e-mail list-servs or "message boards," as some call them, but even for me, to receive the same message...
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September 29, 2009 As we near the end of September and think about the issues that have dominated our conversations and consciousness during the first month of autumn 2009, the theme is obvious. It has been health care reform. Day and night, and night...
Filed under: National Council on Independent Living, mental health and home and community-based services, Tea-Baggers, institutional bias, wide range of health care, community-based services, subsidies for lower-income Americans, disability community, Americans favor public option, healthcare reform, Justice for All action Network, public option, Guaranteed affordable health coverage for all, Medicaid health care coverage for all Americans living at or below 100% of the federal poverty level, high costs of health care, Senator Max Baucus, insurance market reforms, choice of private or public plans that cover all medically necessary services, health status and gender, reform long term care system, money follows the person, durable medical equipment, Gang of Six, End the costly two-year waiting period for Medicare, healthcare reform polls, medical debt, United Cerebral Palsy, 14, seven healthcare reform bills, Americans without health insurance coverage, Senator Charles Schumer, doctors favor public option, President Obama, Senate debate, Disability Coalition for Health Care Reform, the ARC, businesses unable to compete, consensus, Libertarians, Eliminate pre-existing condition exclusions and rating based on age, Community First Choice Option in Medicaid amendment, 000 people lose health insurance every day, Senator Edward Kennedy
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Here's a headline that I would have hoped never to encounter: "Paterson's sight hurting job." The article that follows, which can be found at http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1250927108150700.xml&coll=1 details...
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Okay, you did it! You retrieved that perfect black or navy-blue interview suit from your closet, or the "CareerWear" section of the one remaining department store at the mall, or the dry cleaner's; you got the trim at the local hair-cuts...
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It's mid-July, and lots of people are on vacation, wishing they were on vacation, or remembering the sea breezes and salty air and boardwalk fries from their last summer escape. At least, that's what I've been thinking must be the case because...
Filed under: legally blind, National Federation of the Blind, NFB, blind drivers, Virginia Tech, laser range, driving fantasies, Virginia Tech Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, driving, bioptic lens, totally blind
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I am usually the first person to support training for people who are blind. I worked as a rehabilitation teacher for several years, and I thoroughly enjoyed teaching people who were new to blindness how to cook, read and write braille, and make use of...
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The major blindness organizations, the ones whose membership consists largely of people who are actually blind and visually impaired themselves, the American Council of the Blind (ACB) and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), and Darrell Shandrow...
Filed under: American Council of the Blind, ADA, Section 504, ACB, Kindle 2, Amazon.com, discrimination, Americans with Disabilities Act, lawsuit, e-book reader, National Federation of the Blind, Darrell Shandrow, textbooks, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Department of Justice, Department of Education, Reed College, Reading Rights Coalition, Civil Rights Division, Pace University, inaccessible, text-to-speech capability, Arizona State University, Princeton University, ASU, Kindle DX, NFB, Case Western Reserve University, University of Virginia's Darden School of Business
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Summer is upon us. Some people are traveling to the coast to beat the heat, and others are visiting the tropics to soak up the sun and seek adventure and romance. Still others are traveling to visit family or friends, or to one of the summer conventions...
Filed under: wheelchair, guide dogs, people with disabilities, Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings, onboard medical oxygen, overseas flights, seat strapping for wheelchairs, animal relief areas in air terminals, service animal, oxygen concentrator, compensation for loss, PCA, signal dogs, or delay of a wheelchair, escort services to animal relief areas, National Network of ADA Centers, psychiatric service animals, greater leg room for fused or immobilized leg, damage, unusual animals like pigs, mental or emotional disability recognized in DSM IV, captioning, safety assistant, regs, domestic flights, regulations, service animals required to be well behaved, web site accessibility, Air Carrier Access Act, accessible lavatory, battery-powered wheelchair, minature horses, respirator, early check in, or monkeys, air travel, complaints, NPRM, inaccessible airport kiosks, advance notification, Association for Airline Passenger Rights, personal care attendant, boarding assistance, effective communications, onboard wheelchair to get to the lavatory, moveable aisle armrest, Notice of Proposed Rule Making, TTY access, claims of allergy, groomed and under control of owners, U. S. Department of Transportation, licensed mental health professional, documentation, emotional support animals, Air 21, DOT
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On a day when newscasts are dominated by reports of corporate bankruptcies, a plane missing somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, surges in unemployment, and various other scary, unsettling, and let-me-hide-my-head-under-the-covers scenarios, and the e-mails...
Filed under: people with disabilities, assistive technology, Web 2.0, "Best Altruistic Accessibility Author, Graphical User Interface, GUI, Windows environment, self actualization, speech friendly applications, blind computer users, Jamal Mazrui, Twitter, McTwit, Empowerment Zone, full citizenship, open source software, Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award
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When I grew up in a rural community on Maryland's Eastern Shore, I knew virtually nothing about mental illness, and although I heard occasional stories about "a town drunk," who behaved outrageously in public and then slept it off in the...
Filed under: mental illness, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, an Unlikely Friendship, shelter, The Soloist, " deinstitutionalization, and the Redemptive Power of Music, National Alliance on Mental Illness, friendship can change someone’s brain, Skid Row, community mental health facilities, PTSD, " The Soloist: a Lost Dream, food pantry, Mike Fitzpatrick, Nathaniel Ayers, homeless, L. A. Times, Steve Lopez, LAMPP, NAMI
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In March, I attended a multi-day meeting of a committee which meets annually to advise the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) concerning equipment, distribution of books and other reading materials in alternate formats...
Filed under: American Council of the Blind, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, ACB, NLS, blind, Barry Levine, free exchange of information, Winter Park, accessible world, Functional Therapy, access issues, downhill skiing, ACB annual convention, National, condolence, Colorado
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My introduction to Susan Boyle's angelic voice came, as it did for so many others, via a link to the YouTube video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY That arrived inside an e-mail message on the Monday following her April 11 appearance on...
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The title says it all. These are the questions that wake people with disabilities up in the middle of the night. I can remember the what-ifs going round and round inside my head while I wondered if I would ever find a job, and just about every person...
Filed under: wheelchair, blind, Americans with Disabilities Act, disclosure, sighted guidance, power chair, disability, accommodation, ADA Amendments of 2008, assistive technology, hidden disability, criminal record, reasonable accommodation, mental illness, bipolar disorder, guide dog, interpreter, prosthesis, epilepsy, addiction, white mobility cane
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If your disability were invisible, and no one could tell by looking at you or listening to you or seeing you walk around that you even had a disability, would you tell people? It's true that, in employment or educational settings, if you need a disability...
Filed under: braille, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, BookShare, ADA, legally blind, IDEA, NLS, recorded books, Coming out, disclosing disability, mobility cane, daily living skills, disability pride, Education for All Handicapped Children Act, Metropolitan Washington Ear, dial-in newspaper reading service, Americans with Disabilities Act, orientation and mobility skills, Voc. Rehab., independent living skills, O&M, passing, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
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On March 9, the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced a settlement with Advance Stores Company, Inc., which does business as Advance Auto Parts stores in Western Virginia. The Commission had brought suit against the company because...
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