How to get the most enjoyment out of what the US has to offer travelers in wheelchairs include careful research, planning ahead, and ability to improvise. [...]
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This just in from Rep. Jim Langevin’s office: Better Treatment and Cures Sought by Baldwin, Bono Mack, Langevin, Bilirakis Washington, DC – Congresswomen Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Congressmen Jim Langevin (D-RI) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) today celebrated House passage of their legislation to improve the lives of and hasten better treatments and cures for people living with paralysis. The Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act was included in the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act passed today in the House and recently by the Senate. The bill now goes to the President for his signature. The following three opportunities are available for NYC area people with spinal cord injuries (SCI) from the researchers at the James J. Peters Department of Veterans Affairs National Center of Excellence on the Medical Consequences of SCI in the Bronx, NY. A young racer’s courageous fight to return to motocross after SCI. Ricky’s life should have changed dramatically, but he was still the same competitive kid except now he used a [...] A United Spinal Member is appointed to the nation’s highest accessibility post. By Dominic Marinelli and Tom Scott In November 2008, United Spinal member David M. Capozzi, was named the new executive director of the United States Access Board, the independent Federal agency created in 1973 to help enforce the accessibility of federally funded facilities and encourage accessible design practice through public outreach, technical assistance, training, published guidance, and research. “I am honored to be your Executive Director and will work hard to meet and exceed your expectations,” Capozzi, a native of Buffalo, New York, said in remarks to the Board following [...] Couldn’t attend the 2008 World Stem Cell Summit? Well Tiffiny Carlson did. Check out her report on this event in “View From The [...] Sleep Apnea and SCI covers this common medical problem from a unique SCI perspective in an easy to understand way. [...] A member of Congress looks at the prospects for people with disabilities in the new political and economic climate. By Rep. Jim Langevin Our nation is in the midst of trying to recover from a downward economic trend. I am keenly aware that when the larger economy is struggling, people living and working with disabilities are more acutely affected. It is during these times that people with disabilities need to work together to advocate for solutions to ease burdens and preserve finances, as well as work to educate each other about programs that already exist and are ready to be [...] Jessica Haber’s real world experiences and insights as an expectant mother with a disability, in the “Second Time [...] FILM TALK | by Marjorie Cohen Warm Springs (2007). An HBO production. Directed by Joseph Sargent. With Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer, Kathy Bates, and Jane Alexander. Screenplay by Margaret Nagle. Warm Springs, a docudrama made for HBO, examines the qualities Franklin Delano Roosevelt acquired during his stay—rather, his journey—at Warm Springs, Georgia. It’s a journey that enabled him to become a president with the common touch, a true man of the people, and, perhaps, most important, a man of empathy. Of course being a dramatization, the film often plays fast and loose with the [...] POLIO TIPS AND TECHNIQUES | By Dr. Richard L. Bruno It’s that time of year when taxes are due, and, as with the grim reaper, the tax man always gets his way. But, there are ways around the tax man with paths provided by the IRS itself. For example, when polio survivors travel to The Post-Polio Institute for evaluation, we remind them that the cost of airfare, hotel, food, ground transportation—even the expenses of someone flying with them as their “assistant”—are tax deductible. This is a surprise to many patients. Everyone knows that payments and co-pays for medical evaluation and treatment and prescription [...] ACCESSIBLE HOME | By Rosemarie Rossetti, PhD Residential Design for Aging in Place by Drue Lawlor and Michael Thomas is a comprehensive book written by two seasoned interior designers to show that universal design is good design. The book is well organized so readers can pinpoint a specific topic to learn about; however, I found myself so drawn into the information that I read the book cover to cover! Looking to work from home? Tamar Asedo Sherman gives you the heads up on how to dodge the too good to be true work from home scams that are lurking in wait for [...] KIDS IN ACTION | Yvette Silver www.yvettesilver.com By Kathleen M. Muldoon People around my state of Texas are excited. A woman claims to have found the body of a genuine chupacabra. What’s that, you ask? You don’t know what a chupacabra is? I didn’t either, until I moved to San Antonio and began hearing tales of this strange beast. Although they were first spotted by sheep farmers in Puerto Rico, the nighttime creatures seem to have migrated to Mexico and parts of the United States. I’ve never seen a chupacabra (it’s pronounced choo-puh-KAA-bruh), except for its image on T-shirts. But those [...] Wilbert A. Tatum, former publisher and editor of The New York Amsterdam News, the oldest and best-known of the city’s black newspapers, and a member of United Spinal Association’s Board of Directors from 2000 to 2003, died Thursday, February 26, 2009, while on vacation with his wife, the former Susan Kohn, in Dubrovnik, Croatia. He was 76. SPORTS ROUNDUP | Photographs by Alice Faye Love Each year, Lakeshore Foundation in Birmingham, Alabama, hosts the Pioneer Classic Wheelchair Basketball Invitational in which 10 Division II teams and four women’s teams compete. This year’s Classic, which took place January 9 through 11, saw the Arkansas Rollin’ Razorbacks defeating the Orlando Magic 63-58 to take first place in the Division II column. On the women’s side, University of Alabama’s women were unbeatable from beginning to end, besting Dallas’s Lady Mavericks, the Shepherd Lady Steelers and Team Quebec in every game. Alabama dominated the Lady Mavs to take the women’s title with a 55-40 win [...] |
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