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- ADAPT FUN*RUN 2009 is scheduled for Sunday, April 26th. PLEASE SUPPORT FUNDRAISERS!
- CMS To Move Forward With Durable Medical Equipment Competitive Bidding Despite Lawmak
- State Cuts Delay U.S. Benefits, Official Says
- MLB Network covers all the bases
- Breaking News: ADAPT Protesters Chained to White House Gates
- New Mobility Magazine: Obama's Crip Problem
- Mentally Ill and in Immigration Limbo
- Mad Pride movement covered in Newsweek
- Social Security Benefits Not Expected to Rise in ’10
- Give disabled choice of home
- GAO Report reveals special-needs kids abused in schools, little regulatory oversight
- LD Artist Competition Extended until June 19, 2009
- ADA Notification Act of 2009 Introduced in Congress
- Looped in: Local churches use technology to help the hard of hearing
- States consider cutting drug help for seniors
- first St. James, then the nation? Sarah Palin speaks at fundraiser in LI
- Cong Maxine Waters (D-CA)Chairs Hearing on Section 8 Voucher Reform
- Justice For All Action Network Meet with Presidential Staff
- Nursing Homes Get Old for Many With Disabilities
- Yr of Community Living, a Decade After Supreme Court Olmstead decision
- Little people ask FCC to ban the word 'midget' on TV
- First concert In Thailand for the Deaf and the rest
- Air travelers using respiratory equipment must follow new labeling regulations
- New Research on Stem Cells and more
- Toyota thinks up Mind-Reading Wheelchair
- Institute on Disability Seeks Artists for its 2010 Calendar
- Americans With Disabilities Applaud President Obama's Intention to Sign the Conventio
- Groups Offer Compromise On Community Choice Act
- Law Grad Without a Credit Card Will Take Bar Exam, Thanks to Calif. Supremes
- The Next American City: Access Is Everything
- The Costliest Ride: Paratransit
- Affordable Accessible Housing in Nyack, Ny
- Movie fund to Close housing Unit for the Aged
- Product Spotlight: The Life-Enhancing Quadriciser
- Connect with your Peers through the Abilities Expo Facebook Group
- Exciting Breakthroughs in Pediatric Physical Therapy
- Electronic Textbook Database to Serve College Students With Disabilities
- Gov't bill would make Internet more accessible for disabled via real-time texting, cl
- Immigrant Finds Path Out of Maze of Detention
- Entries wanted: Different From What? Disability Film Festival
- LD.org announces redesigned, reorganized website
- Just In: Health Care Includes Community Choice!
- International: New York lorry driver who ran over British couple is guilty of murder
- A Burst of Technology, Helping the Blind to See
- White Cane Safety Day
- A Powerful Identity, a Vanishing Diagnosis
- No to nasal spray' for H1N1 flu vaccine
- Obama Administration Pushes 3 States To Provide Community Living
- More accessible cabs hit cities
- Listening to Braille Rise of digital reading tech creating blind illiterates
- DOJ Reaches Settlements Under the ADA Regarding the Use of Electronic Readers
- Extraordinary Measures
- Haiti's new young amputees
- Obama to give first State of Union on wheelchair-accessible rostrum
- Advertising: Using Humor in a Campaign Supporting Disabled People
- Social Security Announces 38 Additional Compassionate Allowance Conditions
- National Center for Learning Disabilities announces Spanish-language reading resource
- Hire Disability Solutions
- Administration Rejects Health Insurer’s Defense of Huge Rate Increases
- For disabled, 'affordable' independent living is the ideal, but often out of reach
- Countless Lost Limbs Alter Life in Haiti’s Ruins
- HUD Rental Assistance for Non-Elderly Persons with Disabilities
- see What I'm Saying Movie
- USA Today: Nursing-home residents get aid to move out
- Smoothing the Way for PWDs, wheelchairs
- Little-Known Disorder Can Take Toll On Learning
- The Cost and Benefits of the Community Choice Act (CCA) for Middle Class
- Promise Seen in Drug for Retardation Syndrome
- Changing How Qatar Sees the Blind
- ‘Bad Guy’ Actor ‘Joey Pants’ Takes On Mental Illness
- Parsing the New Law on Long-Term Care
- Relax. He's just another Radiohead fan.
- Clip from "Talk" by the Disability Rights Commission (UK)
- Fight Erupts Over Rules Issued for ‘Mental Health Parity’ Insurance Law
- New Drug for MS
- New Hope for Early Detection of Autism
- Have ventilator users taking commercial flights in CONUS found a loophole?
- legislation to protect blind pedestrians from silent cars
- A small group who lost their sight in Iraq, Afghanistan stay on active duty
- Looking for A-Fib Patients and Caregivers!!
- Wheelchair-bound Woman Charged With Shooting Husband
- Home Services Action in Chicago: 15 ADAPTers Arrested
- When Patients Meet Online, Are There Side Effects?
- MTM: Unlocking Muscle Fibers to Myotubularin
- Skill-building Scholarships for Caregivers
- Rare genetic Pattern Suggests Gene Therapy May Be Effective For Autism
- Anti-Noise Activists Oppose Sounds for Electric Cars
- English vet surgeon develops bionic prosthetic back feet for cat
- Man With CP Tries Out For Oprah Show
- VA Simplifies Access to Health Care and Benefits for Veterans with PTSD
- Expanding Diagnostic Guidelines for Alzheimer's
- Prisons Actually Largest Mental Institutions
- Autistic man dies after being left in hot van
- US Labor Department Seeks Public Input to Strengthen Disability Regs
- Mc Donald's Disses Disabled Veteran
- Social Security and Medicare Reports Are a Matter of Interpretation
- "What a Difference a Friend Makes" Video and Essay Contest
- Bill Seeks to Make Electronics Accessible To Blind & Deaf
- Palliative Care Extends Life, Study Finds
- J.R. Slosar and Michael A. Moodian: Better care for mentally ill would help prisons,
- Medical Use of Marijuana Costs Some a Job
- Doors Start to Open to Activists in Syria
- Med-Peds: a new option in doctors for the disabled
- StoryCorps: a boy wish Asperger's interviews his mom
- Miracle Mom: woman with neuromuscular disease has husband, kids, job, wheelchair
- Music Is Their Medicine
- Quadruple amputee swims English Channel
- Zach Anner starts his own YouTube travel TV show
- Disability Group Targets Senate Candidate Who Questioned ADA
- Bicycle accident victim suffers serious amnesia: cops ask for help identifying myster
- Teresa Lewis loses fight to beat death; Supreme Court denies Virginia woman's stay of
- About the Class Act gov't health insurance and who qualifies
- Kate Winslet starts Golden Hat Foundation for Adults With Autism
- They really do read Playboy for the articles: volunteers read & describe mag 4 blind
- NATIONAL DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT AWARENESS MONTH, 2010 Presidential proclamation
- Monica & David HBO documentary on a 30something married couple...with Down's Syndrome
- Gridiron Dream Comes True For CP Teen
- movie about caregiver in the Ozarks: Winter's Bone
- iPad a Godsend for many with physical disabilities
- Legawear suits offers discount at Abilities Expo
- Medicare Standards Are Too Strict, 2 Courts Find
- Issues in Congress to affect special education funding, programs for Learning Disabil
- Accomodations for LD, ADHD harder to get for SAT, ACT exams
- The Insanity Virus
- In a Land of the Aging, Children Counter Alzheimer’s
- Doctors say Medicare cuts force painful decision about elderly patients
- Donate to NCLD
- Care At Home: A New Civil Right
- Equal Rights Center and CVS/pharmacy Announce Initiatives to Make Stores More Accessi
- What can be expected from the final months of the 111th Congress
- Home Care May Be Cheaper But States Still Fear It
- Bill to Award Seniors $250 Is Defeated
- Project ALS
- You Can Participate In A Conference Call With The White House
- Assistive technologies Becoming More Prevalent For The Learning Disabled
- Research Study on Sport and Disability
- Government finds up to half of Americans under 65 have preexisting conditions
- News From The National Library Service
- Support Wheelchair Basketball with Operation Santa Call
- New Film Garners Acheivement Award
- 2011 Through the Looking Glass Scholarship Announcement and Application
- The super bowl kicks off the ana’s recommendation to closed caption commercials
- Justice Department Reaches Americans with Disabilities Act Settlement with H&R Block
- For Governors, Medicaid Looks Ripe to Slash
- Sheltered Workshops No Better Than Institutions, Report Finds
- Cross-Cultural Exchange for Young Adults With Disabilities
- Governors Get Advice for Saving on Medicaid
- U.S. President's Disability Budget
- The Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation Public Policy Fellowship Program 2011-2012
- Leapin' Lizards! Service Animals Are Multiplying Like Doggone Rabbits
- President's Budget and Appropriations
- Survey on health needs of older women
- Complaint: Colleges violate blind student’s rights by adopting hard-to-use Google pro
- Help Small Business Owners Understand How New ADA Regulations Apply to Them
- Contest: create presentation on how cloud computing helps PWDs
- DREDF seeks PWDs willing to tell their health access stories in videos
- Partial scholarships for legally blind young people to attend college as f/t students
- Autistic Adults face uncertain future: not enough job, transition programs
- President Obama Commits to Protecting Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security
- A Valuable Gift for Mom Extra Help from Social Security
- Adapt fights medicaid cutbacks; occupies cannon rotunda; arrests made
- Response to Intervention Included in LEARN Act
- DoJ Announces ADA Settlement with Intercity Bus Company, Megabus
- JEC State-by-State Analysis Shows Republican Budget Doubles Out-of-Pocket Costs for O
- 'Grandma' thrown off cliff by Paul Ryan lookalike in anti-GOP Medicare ad
- One in six kids has a developmental disability:Rise in ADHD, autism diagnoses
- Facebook Campaign Will Donate Service Dogs to Returning Soldiers
- HHS announces proposed changes to HIPAA Privacy Rule
- Texas theme park for visitors with special needs
- Dems quiet on Medicaid cutbacks
- The White House Blog Equal Access to Transportation: A Right for All Americans Posted
- British Airways apologizes for turning away girl with Down syndrome
- Frontier forces quadriplegic man off plane
- A Schizophrenic, a Slain Worker, Troubling Questions in Boston
- U2 brings blind fan onstage to perform
- Willing Workers organization for jobs for the disabled in the news
- Hud, va to provide permanent housing and support
- Gang Of Six Plan To Cut Deficit By $3.7 T Includes Doc Fix, Gets Boost From Obama
- The Able-bodied Need Disability Insurance
- 80 Cong. Sign on to Progressive Caucus Ltr Demanding No Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid,SS
- Disability Advocates Protest Sub-Minimum Wage Provision of WIA Reauthorization
- US Streets & roads to potentially become more accessible
- Disability Rights Group Outraged and Demands to Meet with Secretary Sebelius after CM
- "my medicaid matters" rally in d.c. On sept. 21, 2011
- Disability Rights Group, ADAPT, is Outraged by CMS Guidance
- The iPad's accessibility features
- 42 Non-Profit Organizations File Amicus Brief Seeking Dismissal of Federal Suit
- New Rule Strengthens Protections for ADA at Rail Stations
- Autistic and Seeking A Place In The Adult World
- Open Letter About Medicaid to President Obama from ADAPT
- 100s OF DISABILITY MEDICAID ACTIVISTS STORM OFFICES OF Hensarling & Camp
- Medicaid disability activists at white house gates as president presents debt plan
- Up up and away: wheelchair users can now go hot-air ballooning
- Tom Harkin wants Taxi Bill revamped
- Death raises questions after Ill. hospital closure
- Inclusive Cheerleading Founder Gets VH1 Award to Big Cheers
- Deaf Grateful for Steve Jobs' Creations
- 2014 Changes in income calculation for Medicaid eligibility may cut 500000 to 1 m
- NYC taxis segment on ...and Nothing but the Truth ...Coast to Coast"
- HHS & FDA to Host Virtual Hiring Event November 3
- TJ Maxx Subsidiary Kicks Out Girl With Service Dog, Apologizes, Then Kicks Her Out Ag
- RIT/NTID's Center on Access Technology Receives $1.6 Million to Create a Virtual Acad
- Inclusion: the right thing for all students?
- Doctors Push For Fathers To Become Involved With Their Autistic Children's Care
- Call for models w disabilities Washington DC
- An Awakening: Ambien's effect on anoxic brain injury
- Wheelchair Sports Camp's Crip Life
- State Legislators Line Up to Support the Affordable Care Act
- Sorry about that: TSA apologises for strip-searching TWO grandmothers at JFK
- Federal judge to Albany: NYC Taxis must be ADA-compliant
- Ventilator Errors, "Alarm Fatigue" Linked to 119 Deaths
- Changes to ESEA in Your State Could Impact Your Child's Education
- 2012 U.S./Spain: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Disability Rights Leadership Exchange
- TSA Helpline for Travelers with Disabilities
- Seen in Able newspaper: "Health Care Still Inaccessible"
- Critics Question Obama Choice For Disability Committee
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