How to gas up your car
Once you go through the grief of getting your car or van upgraded so you can drive it again (and have been trained to use it) you soon find another problem – filling the gas tank. What once seemed a simple practice now turns into a major issue. You probably cannot easily get out of [...]
Special Olympics founder dies
The disabled community lost a good friend when Eunice Kennedy Shriver died at the age of 88. Ms. Shriver decided to help her disabled sister which suffered from Down’s Syndrome by creating a sporting event that helps everyone. That sporting event turned into what is now well known as Special Olympics.
New housing bill in congress needs our help
Under current law, when federal financial assistance is used to create new single family houses or town houses, only 5% are required to meet accessibility standards that allow individuals with physical disabilities to visit or live in these houses. The remaining 95 percent of government-assisted new homes can be built with unnecessary architectural barriers. As [...]
HUD offering housing assistance
Agency seeking comment on how to allocate vouchers to support independent living
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development today joined President Obama’s commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision by announcing that it will offer rental assistance to 4,000 non-elderly families with disabilities, including 1,000 vouchers specifically targeted [...]
Disability claims going through the roof
Social Security is reporting that the number of people asking for benefits has increased dramatically this year. Last year 3.3 million people received new disability claims where for 2009 we are already at 3 million people and we still have five months left to go. No one is quite sure why the dramatic increase in [...]
19th anniversary of ADA
Nineteen years ago the American’s for Disabilities Act was signed into law. Before this law there were numerous "ugly" laws passed by cities across the United States making it illegal for the disabled to appear in public or live in communities with the able bodied. The ADA made it illegal to have these types of [...]
Government grab for your medical coverage
For those that have not had the time (or patience) to watch the politics behind the news, congress and the president have been locked in a fight over our medical care system. Fights have broken out on both sides of the isle trying to get us to believe that their plan is the way to [...]
US changes stem cell rules
The Obama administration has changed the presidential rules that controlled the usage of stem cells. In the previous Bush administration scientists in the US could only perform scientific studies on existing stem cells and were not able to create new stem cell lines. During the Bush years scientists complained that they were falling behind European [...]
Obama census makes disabled disappear
The Obama administration has removed all questions asked by census takers about the disabled for the next census. For many years a congressional group was put in charge of the census and the asked numerous questions about the number of disabled people in the household. The administration has moved all census activities directly under the [...]
Congress working on new long term disability bill
Congress is working on a new bill to give long term care to everyone that works. The bill allows those that have been injured to have nurses come into the home. As it stands now, critically injured people are sent home from the hospital with no medical care coverage. For the next 18 months the [...]
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