Tagged with: access athletes CAF challenged athletes foundation transportation Access for Athletes! Are you an athlete who needs transport to competitions, access to training or equipment or other funding? The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) is the place for you.
Tagged with: adults children disabilities Obesity In the past few years we have seen a big push for the lowering of adult and childhood obesity rates. With the launch of several national campaigns focusing on the promotion of healthy eating and physical activity, one might assume that these programs are having a great affect on the rates of obesity in this country. A recent New York Times article states that this is in fact not the case.
Tagged with: disability housing Section 811 News on Disability Housing is filtering out of Washington DC with the new US Department of Housing and Urban Development Section 811 program. Newly upgraded by President Obama through the Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2010, the new Section 811 program will assist lower income people with disabilities to live in the community in affordable housing linked with voluntary services and supports.
Tagged with: disability DMS-IV education employment healthcare ICD-9-CM Understanding how the changes in the DMS-IV and ICD-9-CM affect your life can help you manage your own healthcare and education/ work situation.
Yesterday, the Wetzel County commission voted and passed a resolution to officially make January 19th West Virginia Physical Activity Day. This decision comes as a response and effort to support the development of a state-wide Physical Activity Plan in the state of West Virginia.
Every January, the visually impaired and legally blind, their loved ones, and their advocates (many of which sit in one or more of these demographics) recognize Braille Literacy Month. As one can probably ascertain from the title, participants hope to stoke the dwindling use of the revolutionary reading system. Audio technology may have curbed Braille usage in the classroom and workplace, but that doesn’t dilute its significance or usefulness any, of course. Educating oneself and the rest of the populace about visual impairments, blindness, and the reality of Braille marks the best strategy for promoting its prolificacy.
Tagged with: bill Congress disability money savings A new bill introduced in Congress would give families a better way to save money for people with disabilities, without taking away their government benefits.
Tagged with: disability employment toolkit ODEP has developed a new Integrated Employment Toolkit to provide valuable information as individuals, community employment agencies, policymakers and others pursue integrated employment as the desired employment goal for youth and adults with disabilities. The Toolkit includes practical and, in some cases, adaptable information and documents to facilitate the movement of states, organizations and, most importantly, youth and adults to integrated employment as their primary option for employment.
Tagged with: diagnose Diagnostic and Statistical Manual mental illness The “DSM” stands for the title “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual” – a book published by the American Psychiatric Association as the manual all doctors use to diagnose medical / psychiatric mental illnesses. The “V” means five, in Roman Numerals. So the key info here is that doctors will soon be getting a new manual – the fifth in a series- to use in determining disability diagnoses like Autism, ADHD, Depression and so on.
Tagged with: bladder Cancer frankincense oil research Science Daily reports on a University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and VA Medical Center research trial to evaluate the effectiveness of Frankincense oil on bladder cancer cells.
