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March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month

March 17, 2020 by Claudia Paoletto

March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. We sat down with two of our NAB members, to learn about the hurdles individuals with developmental disabilities (IDD) and their parents are still facing and how they navigate education, supports and services.

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Blog, Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Employment, Housing, Medicare & Medicaid, News Tagged With: Baby Boomers, Berthy de la Rosa Aponte, Brill COnsulting, family caegivers, IDD, Individuals with developmental Disabilites, Intellectual disabilites, Jimmo Settlement Agreement, Kathy Brill, ODEA, Students with disabilites

What We’re Reading: March 16, 2020

March 16, 2020 by Claudia Paoletto

Are you (and much of the world) self isolating? Catch up on the latest on HIV, how Hollywood is working on disability inclusion and DD Awareness month PLUS a roundup of Corona Virus articles from the week in What we’re reading!

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Diversity, Election Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Legislation & Policy, Medicare & Medicaid, News, Nursing Homes, Technology, What We're Reading Tagged With: American Idol, corona virus, DD Awareness Month, Disability Benefits, disability discrimination, Disability Services, Easterseals’ Disability Film Challenge, Elizabeth Warren •, HIV, isolation, Joe Biden, Marna Michele, Nic Novicki, Older Americans and vision loss, quarantine, St. Patrick's Day, The Good Doctor

What We’re Reading: February 17, 2020

February 17, 2020 by Claudia Paoletto

This week gave us reflections on the NBA All-star game, the President’s Day Holiday and a longer than usual Valentine’s Day weekend. Catch up on everything else in what we’re reading!

Filed Under: Alzheimers & Dementia, Disability Issues, Election Issues, Employment, Mental Health, News, Technology, Uncategorized, What We're Reading Tagged With: accessible fashion, accessible voting, American Society on Aging, Apple, assistive technology, Black Deaf Culture, Deaf, depression and aging, disability in film, intersectionality

What We’re Reading: January 27, 2020

January 27, 2020 by Claudia Paoletto

Crip Camp kills at Sundance, The Hill Highlights states that are doing disability employment right, and the NYPD hires an officer whose first language is ASL, and the Grammys — as the Nation mourns Kobe Bryant – in this week’s What We’re Reading. .

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Disability Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, News, Technology, What We're Reading Tagged With: adaptive sports, aging and technology, asl, AUCD, Colorado, Crip Camp, Deaf/HOH, Disability employment, disabiltiy employment, helath portals, Hockey, IDS, Law Enforcement, Martha's Vinyard, Police with disabilities, sartphons, Sundance Film Festival, Virginia

What We’re Reading: January 13, 2020

January 13, 2020 by Claudia Paoletto

Adaptive skiers change the course in Oregon , a neuroscientist lays out the keys to aging well and Disability rights take center stage in Minnesota all in this week’s What We’re Reading!

Filed Under: Disability Issues, Election Issues, Employment, Legislation & Policy, News, Social Activity, What We're Reading Tagged With: accessibility in libraries, accessible courthouse, ADA, ADA Anniversary, ADA30, adaptive skiing, aging, elderly body builder, elections, George H.W. Bush, Home invasion, retirement, Willie Murphy

What We’re Reading: December 23, 2019

December 23, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

This week saw disability being discussed at a Presidential Debate, celebrations of Hanukah, Festivus and Christmas as well as the DisCo’s loss of Mama Cax. 2020 is right around the corner – see through the Holiday Haze with this week’s edition of What We’re Reading.

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Disability Issues, Diversity, Election Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Legislation & Policy, Mental Health, News, Nursing Homes, Uncategorized, What We're Reading Tagged With: 3rd Democratic Presidential debate, aging, aging parents, Detroit, Hollywood, Mama Cax, Martha's Vinyard, nursing homes

What We’re Reading: December 16, 2019

December 16, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

Inclusion is front and center in a classic holiday story, new technologies to manage medical data and fight Alzheimer’s disease and Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang releases his disability plan in this week’s edition of What We’re Reading!

Filed Under: Alzheimers & Dementia, Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Legislation & Policy, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, News, Technology, Uncategorized, What We're Reading Tagged With: A Christmas Carol, aeism, Alzheimer's Disease, Andrew Yang, Blockchain, Cerebral Palsy, drug prices, EARN, Id/DD, Mental Health, ODEP, retirement, self-Identification, South Carolina, Tiny TIm, Work Requirments

What We’re Reading: December 9, 2019

December 10, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

As we countdown to the holidays and the New Year it can be hard to keep up with what’s going on. Find out about aging, disability and caregivers as well as the best Star Wars Commercial you never saw all in this week’s What We’re Reading!

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Election Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid, News, Nursing Homes, Social Security, What We're Reading Tagged With: accessible air travel, adaptive hiking, aging in Hollywood, Alice Wong, asl, ASL at the NFL, Black Voters, Deaf, Deaf Star Wars Ad, disability rights, family caregivers, Golden Girls, Google, Hollywood, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Judy Heumann, Medicaid work requirements, Medicare for All, OK Boomer, Paper Cups, Star Wars, work requirements

What We’re Reading: December 2, 2019

December 2, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

This week we are spooning out all of your post Thanksgiving Leftovers including Worries about air pollution and older adults, food as medicine, and a LTSS Plan from Presidential hopeful Peter Buttigeg all in What We’re Reading!

Filed Under: Alzheimers & Dementia, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Disability Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, News, Nursing Homes, Uncategorized, What We're Reading Tagged With: aging parents, air pollution, Bay Area, disability emergency preparedness, food pharmacies, Marilyn Saviola, paper-cup bans, Pete Buttigieg

What We’re Reading: November 25, 2019

November 25, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

Gig Economy Compounds Problems for Disabled Workers, Azza Altiraifi Says | Bloomberg   In this edition of "Bloomberg Equality," Azza Altiraifi, Disability Justice Initiative research associate, discusses the challenges and biases that permeate the gig economy with Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Markets: The Close." (Source: Bloomberg) International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day | American [...]

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Filed Under: Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Election Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Legislation & Policy, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, News, Suicide, Support Communities, Technology, What We're Reading Tagged With: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Australia, autism, Daily Cardinal, First Peoples, Gig economy, Harry Reid, Older Mexican Americans, Stacey Abrams, Suicide, Suicide Prevention, WAWA

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