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Latest Disability News and Updates

• 1 : One Button Games for Disabled

  One Button Games provides an assortment of games that can be played by users with learning or physical difficulties using a single input device such as single key-press, mouse button, foot mouse or pedal, or other input device.

• 2 : Legs4Africa Campaign Supports Those with Limb Differences in Africa

  Legs4Africa launches its very own fundraising campaign to raise awareness and £100,000 to support those with limb differences in sub-Saharan Africa.

• 3 : Guidance on Long COVID as a Disability: ADA Section 504 and 1557

  DOJ and HHS Issue Guidance on Long COVID and Disability Rights Under the ADA Section 504, and Section 1557, the guidance provides clarity on how disability nondiscrimination laws apply to certain people affected by COVID-19.

• 4 : Only 31% of London Underground Stations are Fully Accessible

  Reports by Transport Focus, the Department for Transport and the Research Institute for Disabled Consumers have uncovered that travelling on public transport continues to be difficult for disabled passengers..

• 5 : Ali Asgari Lamjiri is 'Sky Boy'

  16-year-old boy Ali Asgari Lamjiri known as Sky Boy, presents a video documentary demonstration on model aircraft flying.

• 6 : Inclusion: It Works Both Ways

  Kathleen M. Cleaver writes on the various forms of inclusion both at home and in the classroom.

• 7 : Bionic Arm Restores Natural Behaviors in Patients with Upper Limb Amputations

  Bionic arm developed that restores natural behaviors for patients with upper-limb amputations allowing wearers to think, behave and function like a person without an amputation.

• 8 : Supporting Moms: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

  Article by Tsara Shelton looks at Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and asks we offer more support to moms during September, FASD Awareness Month.

• 9 : Pandemic Leaves UK Disabled Behind on Bill Payments and Skipping Meals

  UK’s broken benefits system forcing disabled people to fall behind on payments, skip meals, and face considerable mental health and physical challenges as the pandemic has them struggling financially.

• 10 : Man Disabled by Deformity and Loneliness is Transformed into Monster: The Story of Frankenstein's Creation

  Kelley A Pasmanick presents her literary analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

• 11 : 180 Medical Disability College Scholarship

  Open to full-time college students living with specific medical conditions, including spinal cord injuries, spina bifida, transverse myelitis, neurogenic bladder, or an ostomy.

• 12 : Here's to the Children Who Don't Quite Fit by Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.

  Here's to the Children Who Don't Quite Fit is a poem written by Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.

• 13 : Ritual Gone Awry: Destruction in the Rites of Passage in Possessing the Secret of Joy

  Kelley A Pasmanick presents her literary analysis of Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker.

• 14 : Anger Spreads Against COVID-19 Anti-vaxxers As Cases Rise

  Opinion piece regarding COVID-19 Anti-vaxxers, preventable deaths, and the lifting of masking mandates.

• 15 : Expanded Compassionate Allowances for Severe Disabilities - 2021

  The U.S. Department of Social Security has expanding it's compassionate allowances program for people with severe disabilities thereby expediting decisions for disability benefits.

• 16 : Hidden Disability Symbol: Canada Movement

  Hidden Disability Symbol Canada (HDSC) is urgently encouraging everyone to participate in a survey and give the hidden disability community the voice and recognition it needs and deserves.

• 17 : The Miser Monopoly and the Downfall of the Tyrone Family: An Analysis of Disability in Long Day's Journey into Night

  Kelley A Pasmanick presents her literary analysis of Disability in Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill.

• 18 : 2022 U.S. Social Security COLA May Be 6.2%

  2022 U.S. Social Security cost of living adjustment (COLA) could be 6.2% according to Senior Citizens League (TSCL) estimate, based on July consumer price index (CPI) data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics..

• 19 : Disabled by Truth: How One Becomes a Grotesque - A Literary Analysis of Winesburg, Ohio

  Kelley A Pasmanick presents her Literary Analysis of Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.

• 20 : Blazing New Homeschool Trails: Educating and Launching Teens with Developmental Disabilities

  Book review by Tsara Shelton of Blazing New Homeschool Trails: Educating and Launching Teens with Developmental Disabilities written by Natalie Veccione and Cindy Lajoy.

• 21 : A Very Special Child and Come Touch His Cheek - Poems by Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.

  Two poems composed by Gary Shulman, MS. Ed. - Special Needs Consultant and Trainer who began his career working with children with and without disabilities in an inclusive Head Start program in Brooklyn NY.

• 22 : Positive Reframing Disability Model

  Positive Reframing Disability describes the stages that people with disabilities experience. Their journeys are not linear. They progress and regress and may go through stages multiple times and/or simultaneously.

• 23 : Celebrating All Disabilities

  While the ADA has opened doors to inclusion and celebration of people with disabilities there is one group often left out in the celebration - people who have multiple disabilities and are labeled as severely and profoundly impaired.

• 24 : Wheelchairs Users Least Accommodated Among Marginalized Groups

  BraunAbility survey reveals people who use wheelchairs found least accommodated among marginalized groups with only 23% of mobility disability community believing people with mobility challenges are fairly accommodated.

• 25 : Kathleen M. Cleaver Biography

  Biography and information regarding Kathleen M. Cleaver, a writer and article contributer at disabled-world.com.

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