Disabilities

Sieg, Nichols among honored on Disabilities Day (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)

16 May 2008

The Mayor's Committee for Persons With Disabilities hosted Disabilities Day 2008 at the Columbus Government Center on Thursday.

Calls for MUT to lift actions (di-ve)

16 May 2008

The Razzett tal-Hbiberija has called on the Malta Union of Teachers to lift the industrial action ordered on facilitators who assist children with physical and learning disabilities during the therapeutic sessions.

VIDEO: Blind professor creating new vision of disabilities (The Gazette)

16 May 2008

Blindness is thought by many to be a great calamity, still viewed in 19th-century Dickensian terms, says University of Iowa professor Steve Kuusisto.But the reality, says Kuusisto, who has been blind since birth, is that his talking computer, his guide dog and public transportation allow him to do most anything sighted people can."It's not an obstacle to having a good job and a full life," he ...