Harris Interactive polls 1,011 people living with MS and 317 care partners to determine impact on quality of [...]
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Carmen Jones turned her personal knowledge of disability into a tool to help corporations market products, services, and jobs to people with disabilities. By Rob Ingraham Carmen Jones says getting a mentor, in or outside the disability community, is essential to gaining insight into business success. After ten years in operation, it’s probably safe to say that Carmen D. Jones and her company, Solutions Marketing Group based in Arlington, Virginia, have succeeded. Jones attributes part of this success to a very supportive spouse and the fact that, “I didn’t know what I didn’t know.” “I wish I had formulas and models to offer, [...] Challenges of Vocational Rehabilitation in America. Many qualified applicants with SCI/D have been turned away from jobs due to a business’s unwillingness to provide appropriate training and reasonable accommodations, or to simply follow the [...] Craig Kennedy tells “How to turn your special knowledge into a profitable [...] The New Competitive Bidding process? Sign up for our Free webinar and find [...] Former model Sheri Melander-Smith on how “Disabilities don’t have to end your [...] MS brings a daughter closer to her mother as they search for ways to stay healthy, despite the disease. By Amy Meisner-Threet, MSW, with Florence Meisner, RN Like many mothers and daughters, as each of us became more independent from each other over the years, it became harder for my mother and I to communicate with each other. It was almost comical. As my mom began to have some hearing loss over the last few years, she claimed to be able to “hear everyone but my daughter.” I do have kind of a gravelly voice (think Demi Moore or [...] Ed Lash on training the body to fight Multiple [...] By Dr. Richard L. Bruno When polio survivors first came to the Post-Polio Institute at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, New Jersey, 25 years ago, we discovered that the disease had a profound effect on learning and earning. The six subjects in our first post-polio research study made clear that polio survivors were very unusual. The subjects used power wheelchairs and had, not just bachelors, but also graduate degrees. It became apparent that polio survivors were unique, not only among individuals who had disabilities of equal severity, but also among nondisabled peers. Our polio survivors had risen high in their [...] By Rosemarie Rossetti, PhD I am in the early stages of designing the landscape for my new home, the Universal Design Living Laboratory. This home and garden will be open for tours to the public when it is completed, estimated to be spring 2009. My husband and I purchased a 1.5-acre treeless lot and will be building a 3,500 sq. ft. national demonstration home on it soon. The rest of the property will be designed for outdoor living and scenic views from inside the home, as well as from the patio area. By Tamar Asedo Sherman It’s been a rough month. After more than two decades of working as an art director for a major daily newspaper, my husband Jack was nudged into early retirement some four years ahead of plans in keeping with changing times. People are not reading newspapers any more, or at least there are no new readers. The Internet has taken over, and so the news business must go where the readers are. Newspapers across the country are shrinking, and efforts are being shifted into dressing up Web sites rather than newspaper pages. Jack’s initial reaction at being told that [...] By Kathleen M. Muldoon Yvette Silver www.yvettesilver.com When I was in junior high and high school, not quite as far back as the Dark Ages, my schoolmates were divided into two groups-cool and uncool. I don’t know when this division started or who started it, but I know from my teaching experience that students today still fall into one of these two groups. They might have different names-maybe the cool kids are “popular,” “in,” or “hot,” while the un-cool are “dorks,” “nerds,” “dweebs,” or worse. But no matter what each group is called, all students fall into one or the other; no one [...] United Spinal New York Jets quad rugby team. A force to be reckoned [...] Bidding on wheelchairs may ultimately hurt those that need them [...] |
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