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Inclusive Disaster Education in Primary Schools Improves Preparedness for All Children

The study shows that a disability-inclusive disaster education program in primary schools in Yogyakarta significantly ...

Amplify Ability Celebrates One Year, Announces Expanded Focus on Disability Inclusion Beyond Compliance

Disability-led nonprofit Amplify Ability moves inclusion beyond compliance. With support from major tech nonprofit programs. “Inclusion only works when disabled people are part of the decision-making, ...

Woman with Limb Differences Was Told She Was 'Cursed.' Then She Embraced Her Disabilities Through Modeling (Exclusive)

Samrica Zogar faced a challenging upbringing in Liberia because of her limb differences. In an exclusive interview with ...
TMCnet

How Technology Helps Individuals Appeal Disability Denials

The process of applying for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is notoriously ...

A disability advocate helped him survive abuse. Now, jobs like hers are at risk.

People with disabilities are four times more likely to be victims of violent crime. Federal funding to bring their abusers to justice is dwindling.
Mad in America

Social Workers Warn Current Systems Entrench Poverty and Trauma for People With Psychosis

An new article published in Social Work in Mental Health outlines the persistent systemic and structural social injustices ...
The Conversation

The ‘one chatbot per child’ model for AI in classrooms conflicts with what research shows: Learning is a social process

Niral Shah does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Seeking Alpha

Social Security Disability faces pressure as policymakers weigh major changes

Many Americans expect to work well into older age, yet a large share end up leaving the workforce earlier than planned, often because of unexpected health problems. For those who can no longer work, ...
ProPublica

How the Trump Administration Abandoned Plans for a Major Cut in Disability Benefits for Older Workers

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On Nov. 13, a small team of advocates for people with ...
Newsweek

Social Security Update: Trump Admin Backtracks On Limiting Benefits—Report

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has reportedly abandoned a proposal that would have prevented thousands of Americans from accessing disability benefits, according to a report by The ...
Reuters

US Social Security scraps plan to limit disability benefits, WaPo reports

Nov 19 (Reuters) - The Social Security Administration has scrapped a plan that would have stopped thousands of Americans from qualifying for disability benefits, the Washington Post reported on ...
NorthJersey.com

Rep. Tom Kean pushes for national disability ombudsman, modeled after NJ watchdog

U.S. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. is developing federal legislation to create the nation’s first ombudsman for people with disabilities, much like the watchdog office he helped establish in New Jersey in 2018.