The cover story for Time magazine, Oct. 2, 2006: "My Right Hand" by Michael Weisskopf
Chicago city engineers are tasked with checking curb cuts for ADA compliance.
From the AARP Bulletin: "Living by Design: Creative guru Michael Graves turns his attention to improving home health products. This time it’s personal."
Just over a year ago, poet Sharon Olds declined a White House invitation because of the war in Iraq. Read her letter to Mrs. Bush.
The Wall Street Journal writes on Vermont's explorations to alternatives to nursing homes for seniors.
The NYT covers the competition among wheelchair racers in the New York City Marathon.
The article title's question seems stupid to me: "Should severely disabled kids be kept small?" (the answer is no), but MSNBC reports on a six-year-old disabled girl given hormones to keep her physically small and immature.
Quieter cars put blind pedestrians at risk.
In Connecticut's Hartford Courant, 86-year-old Daniel Gross challenges the system that locked him in a nursing home for ten months after being declared unfit by a probate court.
Blinds people around the country voted privately for the first time ever in this past election. Here's one example of an 82-year-old man finally doing it on his own.
ABCNews reports that disabled women with early stage breast cancer are less likely than nondisabled women to be offered the best current treatment options.
LA Times reporter Dan Weikel documents the ADA violations an average wheelchair user finds out-and-about each day.
"Is morbid obesity a disability?"
This past week, the first ever contestant on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? to use a wheelchair instead of the tv show's "hot seat" competed:
Muha was impressed by the tact and sensitivity of “Millionaire” producers, who she says, “asked all of the right questions, and none of the wrong ones.” When asked if Muha wanted to transfer into the hot seat or remain in her wheelchair, Muha asked, “Am I the first person ever on the show in a wheelchair?”
After hearing that in fact she would be the very first, Muha replied, “Then I will definitely stay in my chair!” “Millionaire” built a 3 piece removable ramp for Muha to push herself up to the platform, where she was eye level with host, Meredith Vieira.
The non-profit organization Disability Rights Advocates releases it's ninth annual eagle and turkey awards.
San Diego mayor fires his coordinator for disability services after she advises him the city needs to spend $50 million to avoid federal penalties.
The Sacramento Bee has a series on the price of disability access: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Editorial, Letters to the Editor. Good photos, as well.Democrats in U.S. Senate promise to look closely at Bush's Justice Department Civil Rights Division, says the Boston Globe.
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