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"CinemAbility" director Jenni Gold on Hollywood and disabilities 27 Aug 2013 | 05:35 am
From The Mobility Resource in 2012. Read an August 2013 interview with Jenni Gold in here in Studio Daily. Who is Jenni Gold? Film director Jenni Gold has a new film coming out this spring CinemAbil...
Aircraft tech delivers better wheel for Paralympic wheelchair racers 26 Aug 2013 | 04:48 am
From UPI: LONDON -- Aerospace technology has helped create wheels for Paralympic wheelchair racing athletes to give them an edge, British researchers say. Using technology that helped develop Europe...
YouTubecaptions.com wants to bring professional captioning to everyone 24 Aug 2013 | 03:49 am
From Gigaom: Online video captioning company 3Play Media launched a new site called YouTubecaptions.com Thursday that aims to make it easier for YouTube users to add professionally transcribed subtit...
Director of Towson University's Hussman Center for Adults with Autism visits Serbia in partnership with Centre Living Upright, Novi Sad Journalism Sch... 21 Aug 2013 | 10:28 pm
Note: This is from the Novi Sad School of Journalism in Serbia, who I am partnering with on this project. In the picture, Rhonda Greenhaw meets with parents of children with autism in Serbia. From Au...
IPC bans paralyzed U.S. swimmer from competing because medical report says she MIGHT be able to walk years in the future 16 Aug 2013 | 01:51 am
From The LA Times: With the furor over Russian anti-gay legislation and concerns over whether Rio de Janeiro can get its act together, you'd think the Olympic movement has enough on its hands. Now c...
Obamacare: People with disabilities face complex choices 13 Aug 2013 | 09:45 pm
From NPR (This piece is part of a reporting partnership among NPR, Colorado Public Radio and Kaiser Health News.) The Affordable Care Act has set new standards — called — outlining what . But there's...
Disabled Greeks get to swim thanks to solar wheelchair 12 Aug 2013 | 05:57 am
From Reuters: Paralyzed from the waist down, Lefteris Theofilou has spent nearly half his life bound to a wheelchair and recalls as if it were a dream the first time a solar-powered chair enabled him...
Deaf rapper, 'Switched at Birth' actors now mainstream stars 8 Aug 2013 | 05:14 am
From Fox News: Musician Sean Forbes won the award for “Outstanding Hip-Hop Artist” at the Detroit Music Awards in April. He didn’t even realize it at first. Why? He’s deaf. “Another rapper from De...
Activists protesting TV shows that include characters with disabilities but do not cast actors with them 7 Aug 2013 | 05:53 am
From The Post-Gazette in Pittsburgh, Pa.: This October, when actor Blair Underwood (pictured) steers a wheelchair into crime scenes as the title character in NBC's remake of the drama "Ironside," som...
Spain's new Councillor with Down syndrome wants to be an honest politician 3 Aug 2013 | 05:54 am
From Digital Journal: Valladolid, Spain - Hoping to make a difference with all the corruption scandals in the Spanish government right now, 30-year-old Ángela Covadonga Bachiller makes history by bec...
