Tag: Disabilty
Athlete brings message to town
At first glance Kelly Smith appears confined to a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury caused by a 1991 rock climbing accident.
But a...
Spinal Cord Injury Research Advocate at Keene State College
KEENE, N.H. 4/3/06 - On Wednesday, April 12, Travis Roy, the author of Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage, and Triumph, will...
Injury program eligibility appealed
State continues to say Franklin boy does not qualify for assistance
The state's birth-injury program has been arguing unsuccessfully since late 2003 that a Paraplegic...
ADAPT Kicks Off National Days of Action in Nashville, Tennessee
Hundreds of Disability Rights Activists Blockade Traffic Around the State Capital
Nashville, TN: Nearly sixty people were cited and a half dozen were arrested in...
Let’s create model of inclusiveness for 2010 Olympics and Paralympics
More than two decades have passed since I wheeled onto the track and heard the cheers of the crowd in Los Angeles at the...
Is it time for true equality?
More than two decades have passed since I wheeled on to the track and heard the cheers of the crowd at the Olympic Games...
Pictures of hope
An exhibition of posters aims to challenge the perceptions of severe spinal cord injury and show that life is still worth living.
"I DIDN'T want...
City Theatre casts actor who uses wheelchair in role of disabled character
Breaking Down Barriers
When handsome, California-blond Tobias Forrest steers his wheelchair onto the stage of City's Theatre's Lester Hamburg Studio for this week's opening of...
Murderball Nominated for an Academy Award
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Murderball also took the Audience Award for an American Documentary and a Special Jury Prize...
Southeast Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center
The Southeast Disability and Business Technical Assistance Center is one of ten Regional ADA & I T Centers on the Americans with Disabilities Act...
