Mentally Disabled Faced Bias Post-Katrina

Mentally ill hurricane evacuees were often discriminated against during relief efforts last year, to the point of being banished from shelters or institutionalized against their will, a government report says.

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More Disabled Kids Live With Single Women

Children with disabilities are more likely to live with a single woman — whether she is a mother, grandmother or a female foster parent — than other children, according to a new study.

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Gynecologist May Support Patient's Child

The Austrian Supreme Court has ordered a lower tribunal to consider whether a gynecologist accused of failing to give complete information about a high-risk pregnancy should pay child support after his patient gave birth to a disabled child.

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Class Aims to Increase Fitness of Disabled

Lee Jones' Down syndrome doesn't keep him from exercising — or from getting others to join in.

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Woman Charged With Beating Bus Passengers

A bus monitor is accused of taking a leather belt to disabled passengers, claiming they were rowdy.

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Disabled Kids Said Hurt in Shock Therapy

A state report on a Massachusetts school for the disabled said electric shocks were administered to students — sometimes as they bathed — for offenses as minor as nagging, swearing and sloppy appearance.

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'Paraplegic' Leaps From Wheelchair, Flees

Authorities said a woman who claimed she was a paraplegic and repeatedly filed claims and lawsuits for noncompliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act was a con artist without any physical limitations.

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Report: Wounded Soldiers Left in Debt

After suffering paralysis, brain damage, lost limbs and other wounds in war, nearly 900 Army soldiers ran up $1.2 million in debt because of the military's "complex, cumbersome" pay system, congressional investigators said Thursday.

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Federal Judge Faults NYC Disabled Services

A city program meant to give extra help to 23,000 welfare recipients with physical or mental disabilities often became a logistical nightmare instead, a federal judge said.

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High School Athlete Settles Lawsuits

A former high school basketball star who suffered a career-ending injury when fans tackled him at a championship game has settled lawsuits against the school district and two students for $3.5 million.

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Planners Raise Funds for Veterans Memorial

Soldiers returning from Iraq and other conflicts with missing limbs and shattered bodies will have a place of honor among the memorials of the nation's capital.

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'Disabled' fans ejected for jumping

Um. Whoops? Dumbasses.

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Does Gordon Brown have any chance of becoming Prime Minister?

Does Gordon Brown have any chance of becoming the next Prime Minister? He will obviously be judged on his performance as Chancellor by the voters. But who are the voters? The turnout at general elections is always low even with the relaxation of the rules on postal voting.

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Women, Sex And Disability - a Triple Taboo

-- Sexuality is still a taboo topic in many societies - and the taboo is even greater for people with disabilities.

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Experiencing Discrimination: Boarding The Bus

How is your Cultural Health regarding the disabled? Discrimination comes in may forms. How do you treat others and why?

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Special Report: Back From Iraq

A video about US soldiers coming home from the war in Iraq — more or less in one piece... Hope you're watching, Bush Jr.

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Fla. Caregiver Charged With Throwing Bleach On Disabled Woman

Fla. Caregiver Charged With Throwing Bleach On Disabled Woman JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Jacksonville caregiver has been charged with throwing bleach on a woman with multiple sclerosis after the woman urinated on herself.

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Japanese Cyborg Suits

Sweet pic of the Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) suit, and a more prosaic walker cyborg suit, the WL-16III Walkbot.

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Wheelchairs given design makeover

After seeing a man in a purprle wheelchair at an airport, Mike Spindle was inspried to create an off road wheelchair.

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Disabled Diver Sues Divers Alert Network

Timothy Hogan was scuba diving in the gulf of Mexico at 122ft and something was very wrong. His claims that DAN botched his rescue and now he is paralized..

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Mother Charged With Trying To Kill Her Disabled Twins

Mother Charged With Trying To Kill Her Disabled Twins HOMASSASA, Fla. -- A mother was charged with two counts of attempted murder after she tried to kill her disabled twin boys and then herself, authorities said Wednesday.

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Police shot mentally disabled man in back

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Abuse of Disabled Not Only in Romania: 1 Group Tries to Help

A report came out this week chronicling Romania's treatment of some of its most vulnerable – tens of thousands of mentally disabled children and adults shoveled into state facilities each year for lack of family or someone to take them in.

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GAO Says Government Pesters Wounded Soldiers Over Debts

Nearly 900 soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan have been saddled with government debts as they have recovered from war, according to a report that describes collection notices going out to veterans with brain damage, paralysis, lost limbs and shrapnel wounds.

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How to Bring Google AdSense Down Or You are Guilty but We will not Tell You Why

This story is about a first-hand encounter with Google AdSense injustice. It explains why at the moment is might be unwise to try to rely on Google AdSense for your source of income.

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A Tough Disability Question

"My husband has a coworker whose wife says she has some sort of back problem like a slipped disc or something but I'm not quite sure what it is. She is trying to quit her job and get on disability.

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Limbs Lost to Enemy Fire, Women Forge a New Reality

In June 2004, [First Lt. Dawn Halfaker] became the newest soldier to start down a path almost unknown in the United States: woman as combat amputee.

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Acclaimed library disappoints disabled, but corrections promised

Not a recent story, but important information to consider when visiting, discussing, or contemplating the historic public library building in Seattle.

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Lauren Woolstencroft: Paralympic Superstar

At the 2002 Salt Lake City Paralympics Lauren Woolstencroft whooshed by the competition, capturing a hat trick of medals. She scooped up golds in the Super G and Slalom disciplines, and a bronze in the Giant Slalom. The Victoria, B.C.

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Computer Technology Opens a World of Work to Disabled People

For 24 years, Pamela Post, a victim of a panic disorder called agoraphobia, has been afraid to leave her house. She managed to find work for a time, at a company partly owned by a man who also had a panic disorder.

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Iran's 2,000 chemical warfare victims file complaint against Saddam

Some 2,000 chemical war-disabled have lodged a complaint against Iraq's former dictator, Saddam Hossein, the Persian language daily `Sharq' reported Monday quoting Iran's Red Crescent Society.

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