(from the OPM website) OPM Issues Rule to Remove Barriers to Hiring People with Disabilities The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a final rule that will simplify how the Federal Government hires people with disabilities by removing the requirement of certification of job readiness. Currently, people with intellectual disabilities, severe physical disabilities and psychiatric disabilities
Former US Representative Gabrielle Giffords Partnered with Specially Trained Service Dog from America’s VetDogs TUCSON, AZ (February 12, 2013) —America’s VetDogs is proud to have placed a specially trained service dog with former US Representative Gabrielle Giffords. America first saw “Nelson” on January 8, when Giffords and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, were interviewed
AbleRoad has officially launched! AbleRoad is a website and mobile app for finding and rating accessible places - restaurants, shops, hotels, medical practices and many other venues. It's a perfect mobile service for people with disabilities, medical conditions and their friends, family members, and caregivers. The site and mobile app are free to access, and
CNN Money Article An interesting article on how the French beauty company is creating products and programs for the visually impaired.
A post on Slate.com entitled The Silent Killer details a push to make hybrids louder. The cars are often so silent that pedestrians do not hear them coming. As the article notes, the Pedestrian Safety Act of 2010 requires the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration to initiate a rule for minimal vehicle noise detailing
An Audible Crosswalk at the intersection of Station Road and Brookhaven Avenue petitioned for collectively by the Brookhaven community including our own Albert J. Rizzi was celebrated On October 12, 2012. The organizations that attended included AMVETS, representatives from the Suffolk Independent Living Offices )SILO), as well as local officials and advocates for the disabled.
According to the article in the Examiner, at least three visually impaired riders have been killed, and nine others injured by falling from Metro platforms that lacked bumpy tiles since the Americans with Disabilities Act called for their installation. The article One-fourth of Metro platforms lack bumpy tiles for the blind brings to light the
October is Blind Awareness Month as initiated in 2009 by The Little Rock Foundation in 2009 in the State of New Jersey. Unfortunately, New York is not among the 44 states that recognize the event. Find out more at http://www.blindnessawarenessmonth.org/
The National Forum on Disability Issues, a nonpartisan event, scheduled for September 28th, 2012 in Columbus, OH will be we streamed "live" via the Internet. The 2012 event builds on the success of the first ever forum organized by the disability community in 2008. The forum will focus on the disability positions of the 2012
Lainey Feingold of the Law Office of Lainey Feingold sent an email today spreading the news that Cinemark announced that it is installing audio description equipment on a rolling basis in its theaters across the United States. Installation is already well under way, and all of Cinemark's theaters in California already offer audio description (also referred to