By Chris Serres, Minneapolis Star Tribune Every so often, Korrie Johnson closes her eyes and tries to forget that she is a healthy 25-year-old living in a nursing home surrounded by older people with dementia and other debilitating conditions. Time and again, reality intrudes. In the past year, more than a dozen of her new […]
By MORGAN GSTALTER,THE HILL The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday after he repealed civil rights memos designed to protect minorities and the disabled. The lawsuit targets six of the 25 different legal memos that Sessions rescinded in December, Reuters reported. City Attorney Dennis Herrera accused the […]
By MATT VASILOGAMBROS, HUFF POST Like many people with autism, Greg Demer is bright but has difficulty communicating. He has a passion for the history of military aircraft, but he can’t quite keep up a conversation with new people. When he meets someone, he’ll quote from movies or ask them about their favorite Teenage […]
By JONATHAN STEMPEL NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Tuesday sued the agencies that run New York City’s subway, claiming they failed to make a Bronx station accessible to disabled people despite an expensive renovation. By intervening in a 2016 lawsuit brought by disability rights advocates against the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) and […]
By KEVIN RAWLINSON, THE GUARDIAN Rachel Shenton, who wrote and starred in short film The Silent Child, used speech to highlight often overlooked area of diversity Much of the talk before Sunday’s Oscars ceremony was about Hollywood’s moral compass. After 2016’s Oscars So White debacle and the Time’s Up movement, attention was particularly drawn towards […]
BY LEAH LANCASTER, THE ENTERPRISE LEDGER ALABAMA-For most citizens of the United States, voting is a privilege and a civic duty. Unfortunately, in many locations, the voting process is more difficult for some than others. Benny Crocker is a retired Army CW4 and Purple Heart recipient currently residing in Enterprise. He and his wife of […]
HURRICANE HARVEY By Barbara Ortutay, AP Technology Writer, Augusta Chronicle NEW YORK — Charities are stepping up their donation requests in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which has devastated South Texas and on Wednesday hit southwestern Louisiana. At least 18 people have died, and countless residents are displaced from their homes. While the urge to […]
HURRICANE HARVEY By Suzanne Garofalo, HOUSTON CHRONICLE The upending of normalcy during the worst tropical weather system ever to hit Houston is particularly hard on those with special needs, and disability advocates and families are working to help them cope. The Autism Society of Texas has providers from Austin, as well as partners in Clear […]
Zach Tuggle, Telegraph-forum, Reporter OHIO–She took her son back to school on May 8 at the start of the next week. A few hours later, she received a call saying “that Corbin had been having a rough day and was hitting, kicking and biting his teachers and that he needed to come home.” “I was at […]
NEW YORK TIMES By WINNIE HU All around Valerie Joseph, there is a fleet of Uber cars rolling by on New York City streets. But though she could really use the ride-hailing app, Ms. Joseph said she does not bother because Uber has so few wheelchair-accessible cars to dispatch. “It’s plain unfair,” said Ms. Joseph, […]
