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Irene C. Henry, 1917-2008: Pioneered home care for mentally disabled children--Mrs. Henry disregarded the doctors and instead helped start a school for her daughter and other mentally disabled children, which later became part of CARC (formerly known as the Chicago Association for Retarded Citizens). Click here for article.

Not in My Back Yard--Residents in an upscale Carlsbad community are outraged over a plan to convert a million dollar home into a residence for the developmentally disabled. Click here for article.

Disability Pride Ball-You are invited to join the disability community in commemorating the historic Inauguration of President Barack Obama with the first-ever Disability Power & Pride Inaugural Ball.Click here for more.

Pills found in cake at home for disabled--The pills were found Sunday when the cake was served and some of it eaten, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant reported Monday. Click here for article.

Device Helps Disabled Gain Independence--University of South Florida researchers have developed a technology using cell phones to enable people with brain injuries and other cognitive disabilities to use public transportation. Click here for article.

Would you have an abortion if you knew your child would be disabled? Click here for short article.

Barack Obama's inauguration: Organizers concerned disabled may have to stay home--According to a release from the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies -- the group responsible for the details of Obama's swearing-in -- parking restrictions near the Capitol include cars with disability plates or tags. Click here for article.

John Travolta's son, Jett, dies in the Bahamas--According to Reuters, Jett had a a history of seizures and suffered one at the family's vacation home in Old Bahama Bay Hotel. Click here for article.

Disabled man left on bus in NYC leaves hospital-A spokeswoman says Edwin Rivera was discharged from Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center on Monday, five days after he was found curled up in a parked bus. Prosecutors say the 22-year-old was stuck there for more than 17 hours after leaving his special-needs school. Click here for article.

'Whole neighborhood loved her,' say friends of jailed Brooklyn bus matron Linda Hockaday. --Click here for article.

Mentally disabled young man spends night in freezing school bus after driver forgets him.--The 22-year-old young man was supposed to be dropped off at his parents Manhattan home Wednesday afternoon, after having spent the day at a Manhattan program for the disable, police sources said. Click here for article.

Services for disabled hit hard--Any optimism for Florida's economy and the impact on state services is clouded by years of misman-agement by the Agency for Persons with Disabilities. Click here for article.

A costly future for health care--Health care, says one man, can be "a nation-ruining issue." Click here for opinion.

Disabled Riders Could See Big Fare Hikes--When the MTA outlined possible fare hike scenarios earlier this week, the harshest proposals fell on disabled riders. The fare for Access-a-Ride vans is now $2, but it could rise sharply in June, unless the state legislature steps in. WNYC's Matthew Schuerman has more. Click hee for article.

Medics Caught on Tape Allegedly Decided Disabled Man Not Worth Saving--Two EMT workers in Britain were arrested after they were heard allegedly discussing whether they should bother to resuscitate a disabled man who had collapsed at home and subsequently died. Click here for article.

New transit system is set to roll for seniors, disabled--A new transportation system for seniors and disabled persons is scheduled to begin service Friday in western Placer County. Click here for article.

Disabled man fights for daughter’s life. Click here for article.

Governor's lawyer doesn’t like Executive Mansion--Gov. Rod Blagojevich doesn’t like staying in the Executive Mansion, and his attorney doesn’t like it, either. Click here for article.

Disabled parents don't hinder student's success. Click here for article.

Proposed closure of Selah school upsets many--Local politicians have promised parents and staff members that they will do everything possible to keep open the Yakima Valley School, a state home for the profoundly developmentally disabled. Click here for article.

Proposed NYS budget projects hard times--- If Gov. David Paterson's current 2009-10 budget proposal were approved, the Silver Creek school district would be hurt two-fold, according to district officials. Click here for article.

VA urges help for disabled, elderly with DTV conversion --With the nationwide transition to Digital TV fast approaching, the Veterans Administration is asking the public to stop for a minute and think about who you know, or who lives in your neighborhood, who you can help. Click here for article.

Offer vouchers for special education: It would save money and improve quality. Click here for article.

Federal Circuit Sides With Disabled Vets on Excepted Service Positions. Click here for article.

YOUR OPINION: The right decision to close state institutions for disabled. Click here for article.

Economy shreds hopes of disabled--The 10 bills Gov. Bill Ritter signed June 5 were meant to provide jobs for the disabled, increase oversight of care and reduce by as many as 700 the number of people on a years-long waiting list for service. Click here for article.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE: A local center helps disabled people transition to the workforce. Click here for article.

Blagojevich: $2 Million In Grants To Help Disabled--Illinois is investing the money to support the Home Modification Program, a statewide program that adds ramps, chair lifts and other features so low-income seniors and residents with disabilities can continue to live in their communities..Click here for article.

Disabled vet builds bikes--Brian went to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Eastern Blind Rehabilitation Center in West Haven to learn how to read Braille. He even helped Habitat for Humanity build a house in Hartford. He was going to give up, but decided he would just learn how to do things in a different way. Click here for article.

Santa Killer Had Disabled Son, Escape Plan--Click here for article.

How dyslexia affects e-shopping. Click here for video

How limb pain limits web surfing--Tester Nicola Keary's non-specific arm pain (formerly known as repetitive strain injury), reduces her ability to use some price comparison sites.Click here for story.

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Happy Nevertheless--She added that she was attending my lecture as a supporter of Not Dead Yet, the disability rights organization that a year and a half earlier blockaded Princeton University’s Nassau Hall in protest against my appointment as a professor of bioethics. Click here for article.

Stutterers Lend One Another Support--CBS) Chances are good you know somebody who stutters. It appears to run in families - about 50 percent of those who stutter have a family member who does too. And about one in 30 children stutter, although 75 percent outgrow it. Click here for article or video

HERO THERAPIST GIVES HOPE TO AFGHAN DISABLED--KABUL, Afghanistan – Alberto Cairo describes himself as moody, temperamental, impatient and pushy. But to the disabled patients he has treated for 19 years at the Red Cross Rehabilitation Center – most of them victims of violence in this war-torn country – he is an angel of mercy. Click here for story.

Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter Dies--AP) Harold Pinter, praised as the most influential British playwright of his generation and a longtime voice of political protest, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 78. Click here for article.

Snow leaves disabled feeling left out in the cold--Handicapped spaces fill with snow as plows hurry to clear parking lots. Curb cuts for wheelchairs go uncleared. Sidewalks are buried and ice over. Click here for article.

Rock band of disabled NY musicians finds success--The three musicians waiting to perform at Fort Plain's combined junior and senior high school belong to Flame, a rock cover band born five years ago at the Lexington Center, an agency here in the Mohawk Valley that serves people with developmental disabilities. Click here for article.

Disabled Marine Finds A Home --Marine Lance Cpl. John T. Doody was recovering nicely from injuries sustained when a sniper attacked him in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2007. Click here for article.

Program advocates for disabled people--People with disabilities and their family members who want to help change public policy for disabled people can apply to participate in the 2009 Partners in Policymaking training program. The deadline to apply is Dec. 31.Click here for article.

Advocates of disabled taking on Medicare--An estimated 1.8 million disabled workers are languishing in Medicare limbo at any given time, captives of a health care system they paid into for years but which isn't available when they need it most. Click here for article.

Savings plan for the disabled deserves praise--A way for parents, siblings, distant relatives, friends to provide for someone unable to support themselves. Click here for article.

ACLU sues California's ritzy Laguna Beach over treatment of disabled homeless--Civil rights attorneys filed a federal lawsuit against this exclusive coastal town and accused its leadership of engaging in a campaign of harrassment against the disabled homeless. Click here for article.

Nine Days Remain for Seniors, Disabled to Apply for Property Tax, Rent Rebates --Seniors and residents with disabilities have nine days to submit Property Tax/Rent Rebate program applications before the Dec. 31 deadline. Click here for release.

Disability shield is about to expand --Come Jan. 1, in the eyes of the law, the nation's workplaces will have millions of additional disabled employees. Click here for article.

Disabled immigration detainees face obstacles--The number of mentally and developmentally disabled detainees in South Texas federal immigration detention centers has surged during the past year, according to area attorneys who call the trend "alarming." Click here for article.

Census: More than 54 million disabled in U.S.--Report finds only 46 percent of adults with a disability are employed. Click here for article.

SNL owes blind people apology--By Kathi Wolfe--Though I’m legally blind, I love watching “Saturday Night Live,” the show that so deftly satirizes politics and culture. But I was appalled when SNL veered from satire into cruelty in a skit ridiculing New York Gov. David Paterson’s blindness Click here for article.

Housing Authority's Elevator Safety Official to Resign--Many NYCHA residents, including the elderly and disabled, have to put up with non-functioning, even dangerous elevators in their complexes. Click here for article.

Project:Possibility coders hack for the disabled--New York Times small business writer James Flanagan reported on Project: Possibility. Started two years ago by Christopher Leung, who was working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, P:P has birthed Bar Code Reader, a program to let blind people point a cellphone at grocery store shelves and hear a description and price of products. Click here for article.

Proposal would extend coverage to disabled--The proposal, offered by state Sen. Andy Gardiner, R-Orlando, will make coverage available for persons with retardation, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, Prader-Willi syndrome, Down syndrome and autism spectrum disorder. Click here for article.

Michigan Seniors, Disabled get help with rising food costs--Thousands of Michigan seniors and adults with disabilities will get automatic help with their food budgets beginning next year. Click here for article.

Software That Opens Worlds to the Disabled --ONE computer program would allow vision-impaired shoppers to point their cellphones at supermarket shelves and hear descriptions of products and prices. Another would allow a physically disabled person to guide a computer mouse using brain waves and eye movements. Click here for article.

Disabled air passengers to get more rights--Air passengers with disabilities will soon be more granted more rights and better access based on an agreement between the European Union and Switzerland. Click here for article.

This Shoe's for you, MTA! Protestor at board meeting inspired by Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush--"My shoe is a sign of contempt," he told reporters on his way out. "He (Sander) wants to raise fares on the disabled. Click here for article.

New incentives to boost businesses owned by disabled--Businesses owned by people with disabilities would get an advantage on city contracts, thanks to an ordinance Mayor Daley plans to introduce at Wednesday’s City Council meeting. Click here for article.

MTA Proposal Leaves Disabled New Yorkers Stranded --The Manhattan Transit Authority (MTA) is planning to reduce or eliminate 20 bus routes. Click here for article.

Pair must pay for disabled access--A Berkshire couple have said they have been "left in limbo" after being told they must find £70,000 to adapt their council home for their disabled son. Click here for article.

Texas House panel doesn't recommend closing state schools for disabled--But it has called for the creation of a legislative committee to consider the future of these large "state schools," which juvenile justice advocates are working to close in favor of more community-based care. Click here for article.

NY governor says SNL parody mocked the disabled--Legally blind New York Gov. David Paterson lambasted a "Saturday Night Live" skit for portraying him as an aimless bumbler. But those who have watched the sharp-witted Paterson over his two decades in public service know how he might have deadpanned in the past: I didn't see it. Click here for release.

New funding formula for disabled generates controversy--Budget cuts - especially government budget cuts - are constantly in the news these days. Some cuts are quite visible: A busy road doesn't get repaired or widened; some government employees lose their jobs; universities restrict enrollment. Click here for article.

Web Portal Aims to Find Jobs for the Disabled--Brings together employers, community service providers looking to attract specific group. Click here for article. More above at GettingHired..Com

Landlord Tries To Boot Blind, Disabled 70-Year-Old--The holidays can be a stressful time of year, even more so in this year of economic uncertainty. For one senior citizen on Long Island the season has turned into a fight to stay in her federally subsidized home for the holidays. Click here for article.

Lewis to get humanitarian Oscar--Comedian Jerry Lewis will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Academy Awards ceremony on 22 February. Click here for article.

That it has taken about a decade to make a really significant contribution to Web Accessibility for PWD in the form of a usable technical standard (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0) has been a bit frustrating, but in the end rewarding

W3C Web Standard Defines Accessibility for Next Generation Web-Click here for more.

Suicide on TV condemned in Britain-This is an undated handout photo issued Dec. 9, 2008 by British TV channel Sky Real Lives, of Craig Ewert, 59, whose death in an assisted suicide in a Swiss clinic will be broadcast on British television-Click here for article.

TV channel to broadcast assisted suicide--LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British TV channel was scheduled to air a controversial documentary Wednesday night showing a terminally ill man committing assisted suicide. Click here for article.

Microsoft Improves IE8 for Disabled Users--A post on the IEBlog by Accessibility Program Manager JP Gonzalez-Castellan highlights several user-interface features that should improve the accessibility of IE8, among them Caret Browsing, Adaptive Zoom and High DPI (Dots Per Inch). Click here for article.

FDA Panel: Restrict Some Top Asthma Drugs--Outside experts advising the Food and Drug Administration recommended that Foradil and Serevent no longer be used for asthma. But they said the benefits of Advair and Symbicort clearly outweigh the risks. Click here for article.

Group recommends overhaul of services to the disabled--Called the Blueprint for System Redesign in Illinois, the plan, according to the ICDD, serves as "a concrete system redesign action plan" and allows the developmentally disabled to stay in the community closer to family members who play a critical role in long-term quality of life. Click here for article.

Crossgates among subjects of local disabled access suits--Capital Region businesses are coming under increasing pressure from disabled New Yorkers who are allegedly encountering physical barriers that violate the Americans with Disabilities Act in public accommodation areas. Click here for article.

Survey shows disabled Chinese earn less, need more assistance --Despite improvements in housing conditions and income, the life of disabled people in China remains substandard compared to that of others, a national survey revealed on Thursday. Click here for article.

Siblings of mentally disabled at risk--Siblings of the mentally disabled face their own lifelong challenges, putting them at higher risk for depression, U.S. researchers say. Click here for article.

Protesters disrupt Austin meeting on state schools for disabled --AUSTIN – Advocates for closing Texas' state schools for the disabled disrupted a state board meeting Wednesday morning to protest mistreatment at the facilities, which a recent federal report blamed in part for the deaths of more than 50 people in the last year. Click here for article.

Teachers union puts disabled kids on trial--The union argues that the program benefits schools rather than students. I wish they could see the progress our students have made thanks to these scholarships! Click here for article.

FDA Cancelling The Registration Of Handgun For The Disabled--The US Food and Drug Administration has revoked the registration for the single-bullet Palm Pistol designed for people disabled by arthritis. “The FDA has determined the product is not a medical device,” the agency said in a statement. Click here for article.

Perimeter Mall, Norcross hotel sued over disabled access--A group that has sued dozens of Atlanta area businesses in the last five years has filed two federal lawsuits alleging that Perimeter Mall and a Norcross hotel violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Americans with Disabilities Accessibility Guidelines. Click here for article.

Ninth Circuit Overturns Ruling on Disabled Seating at Movie Theaters--The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling that would have required a major movie theater chain to retrofit auditoriums at 96 multiplexes containing nearly 2,000 auditoria around the country to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act. Click here for article.

Texas has a moral obligation to serve the disabled in its care--The U.S. Department of Justice has warned the state of systemic failures and abominably inappropriate care in Texas' state schools. Click here for article.

Helping Elderly And Disabled Return Home --Innovative state program is aimed at moving Medicaid clients from nursing homes to community living and saving money in the process. Click here for article.

All disabled have a right to be considered--I am writing about something important to freedom, privacy and our right to independence. Click here for article.

Police seek gifts for needy elderly and disabled--An Angel Tree to benefit needy elderly and disabled this Christmas season has been set up at the police department's West Side Regional Command Center, according to a police news release. Click here for article.

Audible traffic lights helping the disabled--One of the major 2008 projects completed last month by the Mayor's Advisory Committee for Persons with Disabilities aims to keep the visually impaired safe from motorists. It installed the last of its 16 audible components to traffic lights in November. Click here for article.

Montana Judge Endorses Right to Assisted Suicide--A Montana judge has ruled that doctor-assisted suicide is legal in the state, but the decision is likely to be appealed. Click here for article.

Sunny von Bulow dies after 28 years in coma--Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, the heiress who spent the last 28 years of her life in a coma after what prosecutors alleged in a pair of sensational trials were two murder attempts by her husband, died Saturday at age 76. Click here for article.

Signs of things to come--Specialists at the Marion Downs Hearing Center want people to listen closely: There are more options now than ever for people with hearing loss. Click here for article.

Texas time warp? State criticized for mental care-- For more than a century, thousands of mentally disabled Americans were isolated from society, sometimes for life, by being confined to huge state institutions. In at least one place, they still are. Click here for article.

Social Networking For Medical Patients--(CBS) A vivacious grandmother, Sheila Engedahl, has always been the life of the party. But 10 months ago, she was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease...Click here for story.

Can You Trust Online Doctor Rankings?--(CBS) For years, Ved Kawatra had excruciating pain in her shoulder: arthritis had taken its toll. Medications, therapy, nothing worked. She needed a total shoulder replacement. To choose an M.D., she and her husband turned to their PC. Click here for article.

50 Years in a Wheelchair: No Time for Pity--This month I began my 50th year of riding a wheelchair through life. In case you're wondering, everything is all right down here. Click here for article.

Activists for Va. disabled urge shift in funding --Members of the disabled community today urged Gov. Timothy M. Kaine to redirect $43 million earmarked for renovation of buildings at Central Virginia Training Center in Lynchburg to smaller, community-based group homes. Click here for article.

How To Steer Clear Of Medical Traps Online--CBS Evening News: As More Patients Turn To The Internet For A Second Opinion, How Do You Know What's Bogus? Click here for article.

City helps residents prepare for digital TV switch--New York City’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, the city’s Department of Consumer Affairs and the city’s Department for the Aging outlined how they are preparing residents for the nationwide switch from analog TV transmission to digital...Click here for article.

New taxes, tolls to meet protest, boycott--The fee for Access-A-Ride, an MTA van service provided for the elderly and physically disabled, could more than double and reach $4. And express bus riders, who already shell out $5 per ride, could see an increase in the fare that would reach $7.50. Click here for article.

December 3: International day for persons with disabilities-- December 3rd marks the International Day of Disabled Persons, adopted by the United Nations in 1992. The day is aimed at bringing attention to the situation of people with disabilities, with a view to securing their equal dignity and participation in society. Click here for article.

UN Convention On The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities --The newsletter - released on the International Day of Disabled Persons - is part of a Commission effort to ensure monitoring and support for the first international rights convention of the 21st century, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Click here for article.

My Farm housing plan gains support in U.F. -- More than 50 people attended the third and final joint meeting of the Township Committee and Planning Board regarding the town's Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) obligation. Click here for article.

The Accessible Channel announces broadcasting partners. The vision impaired will finally be included in everything that is television. Click here for press release.

Feds fault Texas' treatment of mentally disabled. More than 50 mentally disabled patients in the large state-run homes of Texas died in the past year from preventable conditions often related to poor care, a federal investigation revealed . Click here for article.

Examine the Disabled and Elderly Assistive Technologies in the U.S--Assistive technology products are products designed to assist people who, because of specific disabilities or the general infirmities that often accompany old age, would otherwise be unable to participate meaningfully in economic, social, political, cultural, and other forms of human activity in their communities. Click here for article.

Accessible Taxi Service for Passengers who use Wheelchairs--The NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) has launched an Accessible Dispatch Program. It is a temporary pilot project to try out a central dispatch system that matches passengers who use wheelchairs with accessible taxis. Click here for more.

Robots that fetch: Device could help disabled at home--It took Norma Margeson a few minutes to learn to control the skinny metal robot. But instead of viewing it as a machine, she soon warmed up to it as a companion.Click here for article.

Opening Doors for the Disabled --“In today’s market,” she said, “when we identify a house that fits our residents’ needs, we face little competition, and scant opposition.” On one of the purchases in Berkeley Heights — in a well-established neighborhood of homes valued at $1 million and up — Our House was the only bidder. For $700,000, it scored a five-bedroom ranch with a large yard and a new kitchen. Click here for article.

Berkeley quadriplegic helps empower disabled Iraqis--With his long gray ponytail and progressive politics, Bruce Curtis is one of many Berkeley activists working to help heal the problems wrought by the Iraq war. What sets Curtis apart is that he does it in Iraq — from a wheelchair. Click here for artricle.

Jobs drying up for the disabled--Australia's poor record in accepting disabled people into the mainstream workforce will be put under the spotlight at a national conference on education in Melbourne this week. Click here for article.

Jersey's disabled wait years for homes--Seven years ago, she and her husband put their son Matt's name on the community housing waiting list for people with developmental disabilities. Click here for article.

Simple courtesy makes shopping easier for disabled--While the holidays bring a lot of joy, they also bring pressure to get more done in a shorter period of time. Additional errands, shopping and appointments challenge us all to become masters of time management. Click here for article.

Agencies seek improved transit for disabled riders--Social-service and transit agencies are looking for ways to expand transportation options for disabled riders without driving up costs. Click here for article.

Device helps disabled teen communicate--Born with sensorineural hearing loss, cochlear implants have offered some help but not enough for the Wichita Falls teen to develop practical language. He learned sign language, but his signing style can be difficult to follow. Click here for article.

S.F. considers congestion tolls on cars--Low-income and disabled drivers and residents of the toll zone would pay half, and drivers who paid bridge tolls would get a $1 discount. Commercial vehicles, rental cars and car-sharing vehicles would pay a lower fleet rate. Click here for article.

Husband Retains Guardianship Of Disabled Wife--A man seeking to protect his disabled wife from having her nutrition and hydration removed by his sister-in-law succeeded in having the court name him as guardian when the sister-in-law withdrew her application for guardianship. Click here for article.

Death of 48-pound disabled woman prompts NJ probe--The state is investigating the death of a 28-year-old woman who had dwindled to 48 pounds in a state-licensed home for developmentally disabled adults, officials said . Click here for article.

Citation-Writing Volunteers Leading to Fewer Disabled Parking Space Abusers--Gina Schuh of Mesa, (at right), reigning Ms. Wheelchair Arizona, has made disabled parking one of her priorities. If you can't figure out why it's important to leave these spaces empty for the people who need them,..Click here for article.

Disabled and severely obese travelers to get extra seats for free in CanadaClick here for more.

Iraqi bomber was mentally disabled woman--One of two bombers who struck in Baghdad Monday was a mentally disabled woman whose explosives were detonated by remote control, officials said. Click here for article.

State budget cuts hurt mentally disabled on South Shore--Geralyn Hughes is devastated that she’s losing the job she loves on Wednesday. It’s no ordinary layoff for Hughes, 45, who has a learning disability. She represents the face of a unique group of jobless adults grappling with a shaky economy – people with developmental and intellectual disabilities or mental illness whose jobs rely on state funding. Click here for article.

Disabled woman feels she has no one left to turn to--So when she realized she needed help this holiday season, she turned to the Brighter Christmas Fund. At 59, Rita is permanently disabled and really needs to live in an assisted living facility. Click here for article.

Rex: A Musical Savant's Remarkable Strides--(CBS) Five years ago, 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl met an 8-year-old boy named Rex, who seemed to embody in one small person some of the most intriguing mysteries of the human mind - how it is that stunning ability and profound disability can coexist within the same person. Click here for article.

Celebrity 'blindness' down to brain wiring --People who develop the condition later in life have usually suffered a stroke or an injury in a brain region important for facial recognition called the fusiform gyrus...Click here for more

Florida Teen's Suicide Streamed Live On Internet --A Florida teen who intentionally overdosed streamed his death on the Internet while it occurred Wednesday. Click here for article.

Elderly, disabled lose housing assistance from state--Low income senior citizens, the blind and disabled will not be receiving their annual check for homeowner or renter assistance in the mail this year. Click here for article.

States Cut Services for Elderly, Disabled--As Budget Shortfalls Force Reductions in Home Care, Low-Income People May Face Nursing Homes, Advocates Say--At least 15 states, including Alabama, Virginia and Massachusetts, are targeting such funding, mostly for programs that allow low-income shut-ins to receive personal care -- like cooking, cleaning and basic health services. Click here for article.

Transportation and services for mentally disabled may take hit--Proposed cuts in Fairfax County’s mental health services would shunt more than 300 mentally disabled riders off the county’s trusted transportation service, as well as squeeze other support services for a highly vulnerable population. Click here for article.

Court ruling means airlines must make room for disabled--The Supreme Court of Canada cleared the way for the move Thursday, rejecting an application by Air Canada, Air Canada Jazz and WestJet for permission to appeal the new policy imposed by the Canadian Transportation Agency. Click here for article.

Airway Transplant Aided by Stem Cells a Medical First--Woman gets historic procedure in which her stem cells were combined with donated organ tissue to replace diseased organ, scientists report. Click here for article.Video on CBS News

Iowa: Woman seeks limits on mentally disabled voters--A Deep River woman wants to change a state law to require that mentally disabled voters be supervised when they cast a ballot. Click here for article.

Artificial Heart Never Skipped A Beat--CBS) Fourteen-year-old D'Zhana Simmons has a newfound appreciation for machines - and in her case it’s due to the artificial heart that saved her life. Click here for article.

Affordable housing for disabled is needed--According to Carol Lashnits, co-founder and former executive director of Island Elderly Housing (IEH), there is a critical need for more housing for very low-income physically and mentally challenged residents. Click here for article.

'Dear Noel, is life really not worth living?'--Paralysed after being attacked by neo-Nazis, Noel Martin is planning a trip to Switzerland to commit suicide. Here, disabled broadcaster Liz Carr, who met Noel for a BBC Radio 5 Live report, writes an open letter urging him to think again. Click here for article.

GettingHired.com Launches Fully Accessible Online Career Center & Social Networking Community for People With Disabilities. Click here for release.

After more than 400 lawsuits, disabled man can sue no more--U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear Jarek Molski's appeal, letting stand a federal judge's ruling barring the disabled man from filing any further litigation. Click here for article.

Loss of contract may doom Garland agency for the mentally disabled--Dozens of disabled workers sit at their usual tables in a no-frills Garland warehouse, waiting for something to do. Clicfk here for article.

Sonnenschein Secures Pro Bono Class Action Victory for Disabled Clients--Represented by a team of lawyers from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and several nonprofits, a class of 6,600 developmentally disabled residents of state-owned facilities in Illinois will now be able to choose their own living arrangements thanks to a November 13 consent decree filed in U.S. district court in Chicago. Click here for article.

Changes Proposed for Tax-Relief Program Targeting Seniors, Disabled--County Manager Ron Carlee has proposed revamping qualification rules for homeowner tax relief, a proposal that could trim 10 percent of those who currently qualify for one of the government’s relief programs. Click here for article.

Illinois Guv to Pick Obama Replacement--Illinois Veterans Affairs Director Tammy Duckworth , a disabled woman veteran is on the short list. Click here for article.

Duckworth a Leading Contender for VA Secretary--Click here for article.

Napolitano urges increase in federal Medicaid match-- Gov. Janet Napolitano urged the federal government Thursday to increase its share of Medicaid spending, warning that Arizona might have to cut the health insurance program for the poor and disabled or raid other programs and services to shore up Medicaid. Click here for article.

Campaign to end 2-year insurance gap for disabled--Congress and the Obama administration should end the two-year wait that people deemed too sick to work by the government face before qualifying for Medicare, lawmakers and leading advocacy groups said Wednesday. Click here for article.

UK; Disabled bay laws to win backing --Proposed legislation which would see people fined for wrongly pa