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UIS launches a four-step program to increase employability for disabled students
05/07/10 - Latest Buzz on Disability
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05/07/10 - Latest Buzz on Disability
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Employers, Workers Get Help Understanding Disability Rights On The Job
05/07/10 - Disability Aware & Business
Tips, help, and more tips!
05/07/10 - Disability Aware & Business
Tips, help, and more tips!
New Report: Illinois' Poorest Pre-Recession Hit First, Hardest By Economic Downturn
05/06/10
05/06/10
Ammendment to Good Samaritan Act Gives People with Disabilities Aid during Disaster
05/05/10 - Latest Buzz on Disability
Last week, Mayor Daley's office published a press release applauding the passage of an ammendment to the Good Samaritan Act. The ammendment provides an exemption of liability to those voluntarily assisting a person with a disability during a catastrophe. It closes a curious loophole in the act that left a volunteer potentially liable.
05/05/10 - Latest Buzz on Disability
Last week, Mayor Daley's office published a press release applauding the passage of an ammendment to the Good Samaritan Act. The ammendment provides an exemption of liability to those voluntarily assisting a person with a disability during a catastrophe. It closes a curious loophole in the act that left a volunteer potentially liable.
Celebrating Fair and Open Access to Housing
05/02/10
One step at a time in the fair housing journey.
05/02/10
One step at a time in the fair housing journey.
Could Psychiatric Drugs Be Fuelling A Mental Illness Epidemic?
04/29/10 - Latest Buzz on Disability
A few years ago, while writing an article about the merits of psychiatric medications, I looked at whether the number of adults receiving a federal disability payment due to mental illness had significantly changed since 1987, which was the year that Prozac was introduced. Our society's use of psychiatric medications, of course, has soared since that time, and here's what I discovered: The number of adults, ages 18 to 65, on the federal disability rolls due to mental illness jumped from 1.25 million in 1987 to four million in 2007. Roughly one in every 45 working-age adults is now on government disability due to mental illness.
04/29/10 - Latest Buzz on Disability
A few years ago, while writing an article about the merits of psychiatric medications, I looked at whether the number of adults receiving a federal disability payment due to mental illness had significantly changed since 1987, which was the year that Prozac was introduced. Our society's use of psychiatric medications, of course, has soared since that time, and here's what I discovered: The number of adults, ages 18 to 65, on the federal disability rolls due to mental illness jumped from 1.25 million in 1987 to four million in 2007. Roughly one in every 45 working-age adults is now on government disability due to mental illness.
JJ's List Applauded for Doing the Most with the Least
04/25/10 - Disability Aware & Business
JJ's List won praise, even when it didn't win the USA Today contest.
04/25/10 - Disability Aware & Business
JJ's List won praise, even when it didn't win the USA Today contest.
Big win for employers in disability bias case
04/25/10 - Disability Aware & Business
Employers frequently worry that if they discharge a disabled employee, they will be sued for disability discrimination even if they had a good reason for terminating the employee. That’s because disabled employees may claim their disability was a motivating factor in the decision. Until recently, that was enough to win at least a partial victory in court. Fortunately, that’s no longer the case.
04/25/10 - Disability Aware & Business
Employers frequently worry that if they discharge a disabled employee, they will be sued for disability discrimination even if they had a good reason for terminating the employee. That’s because disabled employees may claim their disability was a motivating factor in the decision. Until recently, that was enough to win at least a partial victory in court. Fortunately, that’s no longer the case.
Nebraska developmental disability programs to focus on jobs
04/25/10 - Disability Aware & Business
Programs for adults with developmental disabilities will be more focused on finding jobs for them, under new agreements with the federal Medicaid program. Previously, the state of Nebraska paid agencies working with adults with developmental disabilities only for the time they were working face to face with a client, said Jodi Fenner, director of the state's Division of Developmental Disabilities. Now the state can pay for the legwork agencies take to create job opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities, under new agreements.
04/25/10 - Disability Aware & Business
Programs for adults with developmental disabilities will be more focused on finding jobs for them, under new agreements with the federal Medicaid program. Previously, the state of Nebraska paid agencies working with adults with developmental disabilities only for the time they were working face to face with a client, said Jodi Fenner, director of the state's Division of Developmental Disabilities. Now the state can pay for the legwork agencies take to create job opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities, under new agreements.
‘Never count yourself out’
04/25/10 - Community Participation
On a cloudless spring afternoon on the crowded Glenbrook South track, Tommy Carroll placed his hand on the back of Shin Taniguchi's elbow. He didn't let go until they had finished the first stretch of a 2 1/2-mile lung-burning training run, matching strides as they moved, connected, around the track. Most afternoons, Carroll and his teammates form these rare duets in the individual sport of distance running, Carroll occasionally serving as a motivator, his teammates always serving as the eyes Carroll lost by age 2. The 17-year-old junior and his teenage teammates collaborate on his running career with such ease that their teamwork, extraordinary as it is, becomes ordinary. Just like Carroll.
04/25/10 - Community Participation
On a cloudless spring afternoon on the crowded Glenbrook South track, Tommy Carroll placed his hand on the back of Shin Taniguchi's elbow. He didn't let go until they had finished the first stretch of a 2 1/2-mile lung-burning training run, matching strides as they moved, connected, around the track. Most afternoons, Carroll and his teammates form these rare duets in the individual sport of distance running, Carroll occasionally serving as a motivator, his teammates always serving as the eyes Carroll lost by age 2. The 17-year-old junior and his teenage teammates collaborate on his running career with such ease that their teamwork, extraordinary as it is, becomes ordinary. Just like Carroll.
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