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RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts in a standardised format. The feeds listed here contain a summary of content from the Google and Yahoo news feeds sections based on searching for the keyword "disability" in the body of the text. Please note: these items will change daily and not all will be relevant and Choices and Rights Disability Coalition take no responsibility for the content that is displayed. All subsequent links lead to websites that contain the full news articles and will open in a new window / tab, depending on your browser.

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GOOGLE FEEDS


Times Online

The cruel toll of disability hate crime
The Guardian
David Askew, who had an intellectual disability, had been subjected to verbal taunts over a number of years. Photograph: GMP/PA The death of David Askew, ...
Man with learning disabilities allegedly faced years of abuse from youthsCommunitycare.co.uk
Beat the yobs at their own game - get a dogTelegraph.co.uk
Tests on man 'tormented to death' prove inconclusiveThe Guardian


CBC.ca

UN convention on rights of persons with disabilities ratified
Canada Views
CUPE's Persons with Disabilities National Working Group (PWDNWG) has been advocating for Canada to take leadership and ratify the convention, ...
Canada ratifies UN disability treatyEmployers' Forum on Disability
Canada ratifies UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesFocus News
Canada makes rights of disabled a foreign policy focusVancouver Sun
St. John's Telegram -CBC.ca -Canada NewsWire (press release)


No sugar-coating for disability exhibit
Vancouver Sun
For disability rights activist Catherine Frazee, the personal overlaps with the political even when she doesn't intend it. That happened with Frazee's ...
Accommodations for disabled have taken rootVancouver Sun


Notices to colleges for not adhering to disability quota
Sify
The Delhi High Court Friday issued notices to eight colleges run by the central government for not implementing the disability quota for teachers despite ...

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Program helps high school students with disabilities learn employment skills
Terre Haute Tribune Star
At Union, he's participating in a program called Project SEARCH, which assists students with disabilities in their last year of high school eligibility. ...

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Verizon Supports FCC Broadband Team's Focus on Access to People With Disabilities
PR-USA.net (press release)
As a first step, the holistic approach contained in the National Broadband Plan will lead to better interagency coordination of disability programs in the ...

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School programme gives youngsters the chance to shine
Scotsman
Thanks to the Active Schools organisations in Midlothian and Edinburgh, as well as Lothian Disability Sport, children with a disability can regularly ...

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KOMU-TV

Wheelchair Basketball Coaches on Disabilities
KOMU-TV
About 50 volunteers hosted an event at MU Saturday to raise money and awareness about people with disabilities, and MU's wheelchair basketball team helped ...

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Macon Telegraph

Young hunters not deterred by disabilities
Macon Telegraph
A few years ago, Betsy Howell's father, Rock Dowdy, decided that having a disability shouldn't prevent kids from ...


BRIEF: See disabilities through new eyes at Sprout
California Chronicle
Look for films that focus on people with developmental disabilities at a morning show starting at 10:10 am and an evening screening at 7 pm The films are ...

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YAHOO FEEDS

Disability.gov: Connecting the Disability Community to ...
Disability.gov provides easy access to comprehensive disability-related information and resources.

Disability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Middle Age restrictions, see Disabilities (Jewish) ... Thus disability is a complex phenomenon, reflecting an interaction between features of a ...

Social Security Administration Disability Programs
Official Social Security Administration site with information on benefits for the disabled. Provides assistance to people with disabilities, including Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income.

SocialSecurityOnline: Disability Benefits
An electronic booklet about disability benefits from the official website of the U.S. Social Security Administration.

Disability Resources
Nonprofit that gathers and disseminates information in order to help people with disabilities live independently. Site has a directory of disability-related links.

physically challenged: Definition from Answers.com
physically challenged adj. Having a physical disability or impairment, especially one that limits mobility

DISABILITY
In a disability case, almost any symptom or limitation can be disabling; but to determine ... Disability cases are almost always won or lost based on the quality ...

disability: West's Encyclopedia of American Law (Full Article ...
disability n. , pl. , -ties . The condition of being disabled; incapacity. The period of such a condition: never received a penny during her

disability - definition of disability by the Free Online ...
Translations of disability. disability synonyms, disability antonyms. Information about disability in the free online English dictionary and ...

Disability Policy Seminar
Join us for this year's Disability Policy Seminar, Working Together for a Future that Works, April 12 – 14, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill. ...



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News: Record £5,000 for disability discrimination

April 2008
District Judge Weston, sitting at Kingston-upon-Hull county court, awarded a record £5,000 damages for disability discrimination against a golf club proprietor and former councillor.

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