What Some Disabled People Want People With Disabilities To Know
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The resulting statue and the attention it has drawn have inspired Robison and his wife to launch a nonprofit that helps people obtain free or low-cost mobility equipment. Passengers with disabilities say they want to remain in wheelchairs on flightsįederal regulations require wheelchair users to sit in seats and stow large mobility devices with luggage July 25, 2022Ī father's grief inspires a touching headstone for his disabled son Today we celebrate the 32 nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-the world’s first comprehensive civil rights law for persons with disabilities.ĭisability rights aren't a niche issue, and the COVID-19 pandemic has made that impossible to ignore any longer. The Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act The bipartisan legislation, called the Public Safety Officer Support Act, was approved by unanimous consent in the Senate on Monday.īlack Knight Earns a Top Score on the 2022 Disability Equality Indexīlack Knight's strong commitment to disability inclusion helped it earn a top score, and the company was named a "Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion" August 1, 2022 Senate passes bill to expand death and disability benefits for public safety officers who suffer from PTSD and those who die by suicide How to talk about disability sensitively and avoid ableist tropesĭisability can be difficult to talk about sensitively because of how embedded ableism is in our language, biases and perceptions of disability. While the bill contains some small investments that will tangentially benefit the disability community, almost every disability-related policy from the Build Back Better Act was stripped out. Social Security Disability Insurance is there to help those who can’t work, but getting the benefits you need can be confusing and difficult.Ĭongress Leaves Disability Community Priorities Out of Inflation Reduction Act Providers for intellectually and developmentally disabled struggle to recruit and retain staff amid soaring inflation, pandemic burnout.Īnswers to Frequently Asked Social Security Disability Questions 'People will die waiting’: America’s system for the disabled is nearing collapse The program is designed to quickly identify claims where the applicant’s condition or disease clearly meet Social Security’s statutory standard for disability. Social Security Expands Compassionate Allowances List To Speed Up Disability Application Process Gender dysphoria describes an uncomfortable conflict between a person’s assigned gender and the gender with which the person identifies, according to the American Psychiatric Association. Lyft officials said the company is exempt from the Americans with Disabilities Act and doesn’t have to cater to people with nonfolding wheelchairs.įederal appeals court says Americans with Disabilities Act protections cover ‘gender dysphoria,’ handing a win to trans people Disability rights groups battle Lyft for wheelchair accessible vehicles - again They cover news on disability that may be of interest to visitors to DO-IT. Most of the following references come from Google Alerts.
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