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All posts tagged "disabled"
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3.0KNews‘Hiding in Plain Sight’: Film probes youth mental illness
Several youth and young adults discuss mental health in this clip from the PBS documentary, “Hiding In Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness.”...
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2.5KNewsNew online-only SAT puts students with disabilities at new disadvantage, advocates say
Some young people who are neurodivergent or have learning disabilities, already concerned about what they say are structural biases in the existing...
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1.8KNewsFor fledgling adults with disabilities, paperwork sometimes disrupts SSI payments
Each month, more than a million low-income U.S. children with disabilities receive Supplemental Security Income that helps them and their families cover...
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3.1KNewsUnrecognized by Alexa and Siri, impaired speech is being used to develop new speech-assistance software
Google’s Project Euphonia has been testing a prototype that, by mid-June, employed the voices of roughly 1,000 disabled individuals, including Cisek, who...
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2.8KNewsYouth with intellectual disabilities are likelier to be overweight; researchers are trying to change that
Among 10- through 17-year-olds, for example, 20% of those with disabilities but 15% of the non-disabled were obese, according to one federal...
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1.9KNewsSome pandemic-prompted patio dining has blocked disability access
Across the country, many local governments threw a lifeline to struggling restaurants and bars by expanding rules on outdoor dining as COVID-19...
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2.4KGuest Opinion EssayLearning Disabled Students Need Better Protections and Supports as Schools Reopen
INSTA-PHOTOS/SHUTTERSTOCK Learners whom I prefer to call exceptional, rather than disabled, get teased more often than many of us care to acknowledge....
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2.1KNewsGeorgia Establishing New Therapeutic Foster Care Program
ATLANTA — Georgia is establishing a therapeutic foster care program to provide specialized treatment for children with an assortment of behavioral, mental...
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5.0KNewsThese clinics specialize in gynecologic care for women with disabilities
Izzie Bullock — whose severe form of cerebral palsy prevents her from controlling her arms, legs and body — had her first...
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2.4KNewsExercise Boosts Fitness, Lowers Disease Risks for Disabled Youth
For the first time, when he was 11, Matthew Bishop got to play competitive sports with athletes who, like him, had Down...
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3.6KNewsBiden’s Caregiver Pay-Raise Plan Aims to Stem Worker Turnover
Having caregivers come and go is a problem for many disabled people. Recognizing that,the Biden Administration has proposed a $400 billion infusion...
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3.1KNewsBetter Sex Ed Aims to Curb Abuse, Criminalizing of Youth with Disabilities
OLESIA BILKEI/SHUTTERSTOCK As his mother sees it, 16-year-old Nate Nemhauser’s main takeaway from sex education class back in fifth grade was that...
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2.7KGuest Opinion EssaySisters Inspire Disabled Community to Share Social Distancing Experiences
Last week, while I was interviewing a source for my column, I was alerted to an online campaign by an Instagram page...
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2.9KGuest Opinion EssayHow Are Disabled Youth Coping With COVID-19 Pandemic?
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread across the globe, young people with disabilities are facing unique challenges. The threat of contracting...
