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15 May 12 - Society Disabled News
Free home care available to fewer elderly people
The number of vulnerable older and disabled people who had home care services fully paid by their local authority fell by 11% in England in the past two years, according to newly published figures.
Peru: Disability Rights in the Voting Booth
Peruvians with disabilities are no-less citizens than anyone else. Everyone is equally entitled to vote and participate in society - and the law and government policy should see to it that they have the support they need and that no one is arbitrarily ...
Equality and Human Rights Commission has workforce halved
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has been stripped of its duty to promote a society with equal opportunity for all and had its budget and workforce halved, the government has announced.
Class action: Insurers, HMOs refuse coverage for disabled
The problem is not the disability, but the society." One of the plaintiffs, Yisrael Even-Zahav, is a 65-year-old polio victim who has been recognized by the National Insurance Institute as being 80 percent disabled. Nevertheless, he can function on his ...
Thousands protest over closures of disabled care centers
“I hope that the government doesn't treat the disabled as badly as it treats other segments of the society,” said Lina Osman, who was attending in support of her brother, a student at a school for the disabled. “A week ago they sent us a letter saying ...
Cash aid for disabled adults on Pa. chopping block
(AP) - A decades-old program that provides about $200 a month for tens of thousands of disabled adults who can't work is on the chopping block even as improving tax collections give state lawmakers the freedom to reverse some of Gov.
Society for Equal Access offers Youth in Transition program
By Matt Alpert The Society for Equal Access will offer the Youth in Transition program from June 4 through Aug. 15. The program will focus on daily living skills for disabled high school students who have an Individualized Education Program and are ...
Army surgeon offers hope to Afghan amputees
"It's particularly difficult for Afghans," says Haji Bashir Ahmed, who was made a paraplegic from a bomb blast five years ago and now heads the Afghan Disabled Rehabilitation Association in Kandahar. "Society and the government think that they can't ...
Benefits: the disabled and deserving?
Reform of the disability benefits system is necessary, but it will require caution as well as determination. By Neil O'Brien In yesterday's Daily Telegraph, Iain Duncan Smith pledged to reform Disability Living Allowance (DLA).
We need more from our city's real 'chair leaders'
In the mid-1970s, the disabled movement in Canada was just starting to roll. Because of medical breakthroughs, people with disabilities were becoming part of society. Through the unthinkable, smouldering carnage of the Vietnam War came some good: young ...
South Florida pet owners say caring for animal with disability comes with huge ...
Pogo had been brought into the Humane Society of Broward County in March with his injuries. “I was just drawn to him,” said Chris Wheeler, who works at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Disabled workers fight to save Remploy factory jobs
We have fought long and hard for an inclusive society where disabled people have the same employment chances, choices and opportunities as everyone else.
Paralympic torch bearers unveiled
She runs a local art group of the Society for Disabled Artists (Soda), is editor of the national Soda magazine, and runs an annual art holiday for the disabled. Her nomination reads: "She is a survivor, having coped with more than her fair share of ...
Tale of Rosemary's baby - part two
TONY Catanese was a keen young psychologist with the Spastic Society of Victoria in 1981 when he met Rosemary Crossley - already well known after the Supreme Court ruling that Anne McDonald was an intelligent adult entitled to leave St Nicholas' to ...
Tait: In praise of the real 'chair leaders'
In the mid-1970s the disabled movement in Canada was just starting to roll. Because of medical breakthroughs, people with disabilities were becoming part of society. Through the unthinkable, smouldering carnage of the Vietnam War came some good: young ...
Fair society's safety net
The aim of a fair society is that everyone should be provided with what they need to be able to secure appropriate paid work.
School-leavers with disabilities
If there is a single group in society which is innocent of any role in the current economic turmoil, it is people with intellectual disabilities. As of now, health authorities say they are in close talks with voluntary services to try to determine the ...
AD.NAK, 'Tell the Truth', Social Contracting - Belarus Civil Society Digest
Rally of wheelchair-bound disabled persons. On May 05, the rally organised by the Republican Association of Wheelchair-Bound Disabled Persons devoted to the support of international movement of disabled for equal rights and against the discrimination ...
Tale of Rosemary's baby, Part Two
To read Part One, click here TONY Catanese was a keen young psychologist with the Spastic Society of Victoria in 1981 when he met Rosemary Crossley - already well known after the Supreme Court ruling that Anne McDonald was an intelligent adult entitled ...
Online support for parents of special kids
Prince Khaled Al-Faisal received Princess Latifa bint Thunayyan, chairperson of the Saudi Society for the Guardians of the Disabled, at his office here yesterday. The governor launched the society's website during the reception, which was also attended ...
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