Topic: Disabilities
AP News | 2009-11-10 21:29:29
<div id="subtitle">`Glee' wheelchair episode hits bump with disabled actors fighting for TV jobs, visibility</div><div><p>The glee club members twirl their wheelchairs to the tune of "Proud Mary" and in joyful solidarity with Artie, the fellow performer who must use his chair even when the music stops.< ...
AP News | 2009-11-04 18:52:02
<div id="subtitle">Montana high court rules workers' compensation can be cut off when recipients reach retirement</div><div><p>The Montana Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a state law that allows insurance companies to cut off workers' compensation payments for those suffering permanent total disability when the disabled party ...
AFP Global Edition | 2009-11-04 17:00:55
<div><p>In the streets of the Ethiopian capital hundreds of disabled people beg, some from makeshift wheelchairs, the less fortunate dragging themselves on their hands from car to car.</p><p>Disabled people are seldom taken care of by institutions here; mostly they are either left to their own devices on ...
AP News | 2009-10-07 17:05:50
<div id="subtitle">Alabama to unveil new statue of Helen Keller to be installed in US Capitol</div><div><p>Alabama installed the first statue honoring a disabled person in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, unveiling a bronze of a 7-year-old Helen Keller at her moment of epiphany when she solved ...
