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Robot Teaches Children How To Use Wheelchair At Their Own Pace - 13 Aug 2010
US researchers are developing a wheelchair that uses a robot to teach young users how to use it safely at their own pace, in the hope that it will lower the cost and improve accessibility to wheelchair training for children with a disability. You can read how Dr Laura Marchal-Crespo and colleagues at the University of California at Irvine developed and tested the robotic wheelchair with a group ...
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What's on this weekend? - 13 Aug 2010
Whether it's an indoors event you're looking for, or something with a bit of fresh air attached, there's always something for you to do.
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Last-minute drug ban for athlete - 13 Aug 2010
A paraplegic athlete's hopes of a world title were dashed when she was told moments before she was due to catch her international flight that medication she was taking for her disability was a banned substance.
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Disabled adults left in limbo in dispute over care - 13 Aug 2010
Federal rules don't bar developmentally disabled people from getting services outside of the state, Nebraska lawmakers were told Thursday.
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Charities claim slice of 'big society' pie - 13 Aug 2010
Report by the Institute for Public Care says voluntary groups can offer 'gain without pain' savings and should takeover more of the work of the public sector The voluntary sector could offer "gain without pain" to councils and NHS agencies if it was entrusted with the care and support of more disabled people, a report suggests. Millions of pounds of savings could be made by charities already ...
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Stroke survivor reaching out to help others - 13 Aug 2010
CADILLAC - Lana Beaudoin is used to being the center of attention. An attractive woman with a brilliant resume, she is articulate, outgoing and known for getting things done.
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QIA ties up with Israeli conglomerate to create fund - 13 Aug 2010
The Qatar Investment Authority Qatar Investment Authority and the Olayan Group of Saudi Arabia have joined forces with a prominent Israeli conglomerate to create an emerging markets fund.
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Al Baraka continues global expansion - 13 Aug 2010
Dubai Bahrain-based Al Baraka Banking Group Al Baraka Banking Group (ABG) (ABG) has lenders in Malaysia and Indonesia in its sights as it seeks to continue global expansion, president and chief executive Adnan Yousuf told Gulf News.
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Bahrain: Oxford Business Group Appoints New Country Director - 12 Aug 2010
Bahrain, 12 August 2010: Oxford Business Group (OBG), the global publishing, research and consultancy firm, has appointed a new Country Director to lead its forthcoming project in Bahrain.
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Millions of Dollars of Disability Benefits Held Back, Unnecessarily, Every Year - 11 Aug 2010
Disability Services Group reports that each year millions of dollars in Insurer, Social Security and Veterans Administration disability claims will continue to be denied, unnecessarily. Our new publication contains valuable information on how to correctly file a Long Term Disability claim, "doing it right" the first time, dramatically improving the likelihood of collecting benefits.
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Additional Resources
Civil Rights: Disability.gov
This section of Disability.gov provides information about the ... protect the housing, education, voting, and other rights ... Civil Rights; Community Life; View complete list of groups
A deliberate decision?
Rus Cooper-Dowda, The Ragged Edge, disability rights, Disability Rag, Ragged ... "These kinds of groups just don't 'get' the disability rights perspective and are confused and perplexed ...
Yahoo! Groups : Directory : Disability Rights
Directory : Disability Rights ... A moderated group discussion list from Louisiana Parent Training & Information Center, Louisiana's statewide Parent Training and Information (PTI ...
Civil Rights Division Home Page
The Civil Rights Division provides contact information ... of discrimination or where a denial of rights to a group of ... persons with disabilities or a specific type of disability ...
Disability Rights - The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human ...
The protest, by the disability-rights group ADAPT, is in support of the recently-introduced Community Choice Act, which will give people with disabilities and older Americans who ...
The Council for Disability Rights
The Council for Disability Rights: Advancing rights and enhancing lives of ... in special education and/or human rights/discrimination/disability issues; and advocacy and support groups
Disability Rights Activist's Group: Together We CAN Make a Difference!
Information to help, bless and encourage you. ... We are a club/group at Yahoo which is dedicated to getting the message out that the needs of the disabled are not being fully ...
A Ragged Edge Online: Why Disability Rights Activists Oppose Physician ...
Disability groups referred to this study in their brief to the Court, adding that the ... to mention that physicians, along with assorted religious, minority groups, disability rights ...
Disability Interest Group
Save the date for the conference on “reasonable accommodation at the workplace in light of the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities” (23/09/2010) in Brussels
Disability rights movement: Information from Answers.com
The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to ... population, rather than only specific groups. [1] [4] Another significant protest related to disability rights was the ...
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