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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


Daily Mail

Australian court allows parents to sterilise 11-year-old daughter
Daily Mail
Disability organisations immediately branded the forced sterilisation of any girl as an abuse of human rights. Carolyn Frohmader, chief executive of Women ...
Parents win right to have disabled daughter, 11, sterilisedTelegraph.co.uk
Court Okays Sterilization For Girl With Severe DisabilitiesDisability Scoop
Parents win fight to sterilise daughterNew Zealand Herald
Legalbrief (subscription) -ParentDish (blog) -Brisbane Times


TSN

Elite athletes who need a helping hand
Vancouver Sun
Most able-bodied folks aren't comfortable with disability, despite national heroes like Terry Fox and Rick Hansen. My dad spent most of his last five years ...
LOCAL CHARITY BOSS HEADS TO PARALYMPIC GAMESCommunity Newswire
It's one grand sporting spectacleThe Province
McKeever serves as inspiration for disabled provincial skierDaily Gleaner
Toronto Sun -The Vancouver Observer (blog) -The Concordian (subscription)


BBC News

'Brain washing' could reduce death and disability in premature babies
Nursing Times
... showed the technique, which takes around three days to complete, significantly reduced the number of deaths and severe disabilities in a test group. ...
New method may cut down disability in premature babies with grave brain ...HealthJockey.com
Pioneering treatment reduces disability in premature babies with serious brain ...PhysOrg.com
New hope for premature babiesThe Press Association
Jack FM -Popular Science


The Virtual Medical Centre

Treatment could 'cut child disability'
Private Healthcare UK
Tests proved relatively successful with 17 per cent fewer children dying or experiencing severe disability in the test group who underwent the treatment. ...
Reducing disability in premature babies with serious brain haemorrhageThe Virtual Medical Centre


Gala ball to raise awareness of children's disabilities
Wharfedale and Airedale Observer
A glamorous gala ball is being held to raise awareness of disabilities which can affect children and young people. ...


New research targets rural disability services
ABC Online
A new research project into the provision of therapy services, launching today, is expected to benefit those with disabilities in far west New South Wales. ...

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Scottish Motion Tabled
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
... Inclusion Scotland, Glasgow Disability Alliance and North Lanarkshire Disability Forum in celebrating International Womens Day and in calling for an end ...

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National Post (blog)

The bourgeois tyranny of the fully-abled
National Post (blog)
An intense brouhaha, with disability advocacy groups, Special Olympics spokespeople and even Sarah Palin piling on, confirmed that the word "retarded" ...

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COUNCILS TO RUN JOBS PILOTS FOR PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
PublicNet
Seven local authorities are to pilot a new scheme to support people with learning disabilities to find paid work.The Jobs First project will help people to ...

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Salem-News.Com

VA to automate payment system for Agent Orange claims
Stars and Stripes
CHICAGO – Faced with a crushing influx of disability claims from Vietnam War veterans exposed to the toxic ...
Vets should file paperwork nowClovis News Journal
VA secretary seeks improved Agent Orange claims processMaxwell-Gunter Air Force Base
VA to automate its Agent Orange claims processUSA Today
FederalNewsRadio.com -FierceGovernmentIT -OpEdNews



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 Services // University of Notre Dame
The mission of Disability Services is to recommend and coordinate the provision of reasonable accommodations for qualified students with disabilities.

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.

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

Housing: Disability.gov
This section of Disability.gov has information about housing rights, tax credits, making a home accessible, and supportive housing services that ...

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.

Full article here