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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 9, 2018

January 8, 2018 by Claudia Paoletto

PCA's Joe Snyder, an expert on aging, retires - and finds applying for Medicare 'maddening' | Philadelphia Inquirer After his childhood best friend Cecil Green Jr. died in May, Joe Snyder realized he was done working. Green’s passing at age 62 occurred “even though he ate right and worked out all the time,” said Snyder, [...]

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Filed Under: Affordable Care Act (ACA), Alzheimers & Dementia, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Diversity, Employment, Health Insurance, Housing, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, News, Social Activity, Social Security, What We're Reading Tagged With: accessible homes, ADA, Aging in Place, aging parents, air quality, Amazon, autism, Developmental Disabilites, Disability employment, Emily Harvey, financial planning, George HW Bush, Id/DD, Law Enforcement, Medicaid, Medicare, older americans, Paralympics

What We’re Reading: August 14, 2017

August 14, 2017 by Claudia Paoletto

Disability Organizations Issue Statements in Solidarity with Charlottesville | Anita Cameron ADAPT - http://adapt.org/adapts-statement-condemning-racist-violence-in-charlottesville-va/ Disabled Queers In Action - https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156302440823265&id=656378264 DREDF Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund - https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155611962904099&id=55171084098 Not Dead Yet - http://notdeadyet.org/2017/08/not-dead-yet-statement-condemning-racist-violence-in-charlottesville-va.html Access Living - https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155423475632597&id=91612517596 Center for Disability Rights CDR - https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155274726592550&id=13882767549 Colorado Cross Disabilities Coalition CCDC - https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1071529202982443&id=100003761201357 Partnership for Inclusive [...]

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