This week’s special needs wrap-up includes articles about why Ecuador is a leader in disability rights, How individuals with disabilities can secure an internship at Google, Autism symptoms identified in 6-month-old infants and more news and blog posts you should know about. View the story “Google Scholarships,ADHD Sympoms Persist, Ecuador’s Paraplegic Vice President And More” on [...]
The Department of Labor reports 150,000 new jobs last month, though these jobs have had little effect on the unemployment rate of Americans with disabilities. Unemployment was a steady 14.5 percent for individuals with disabilities in the same month, even with the first economic upturn since the Spring of 2010. The national average for typical unemployed Americans [...]
Oscar® winner and twice Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker, Gerardine Wurzburg, has completed a compelling new feature documentary called Wretches & Jabberers: And Stories from the Road. Wurzburg’s inspiring documentary chronicles the world travels of disability rights advocates, Tracy Thresher and Larry Bissonnette, in a bold quest to change attitudes about the intelligence and abilities of people [...]
