http://hope-house.org/news/blog.php Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:04:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Suzanne Robitaille, HealthDay on USAToday.com As the nation marks the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act on Monday, a new survey finds that the law has not made meaningful progress in improving the quality of life for people with disabilities. Many social and ... http://hope-house.org/news/blog.php/2010/disability-field-news/kessler-survery-finds-ada-has-not-improved-quality-of-life/ By Lisa Rein, Washington Post As the country marks the 20th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act this week, the Obama administration and Congress are taking steps to give the disabled greater access to federal jobs and technology. Under a new executive order from ... http://hope-house.org/news/blog.php/2010/disability-field-news/president-obama-orders-the-hiring-of-more-people-with-disabilities/ By Jeremy Pelofsky, RuetersThe Obama administration on Friday proposed trying to enhance access for people with disabilities to websites for hotels, retail stores and other public sites as well as improve access to movie theaters. Most of the proposals are aimed primarily at improved access for the ... http://hope-house.org/news/blog.php/2010/disability-field-news/obama-proposing-to-enchance-access/ By Henri E. Cauvin, The Washington Post On a barren tract that backs up to Interstate 64, past a street sign that says "Dead End," sits the entrance to a home that no parent would eagerly choose for a son or daughter. The Southeastern Virginia Training Center houses some of ... http://hope-house.org/news/blog.php/2010/disability-field-news/virginia-is-one-of-only-11-states-that-have-not-shut-down-institutions/ By John Leland, The New York TimesAs states face severe budget shortfalls, many have cut home-care services for the elderly or the disabled, programs that have been shown to save states money in the long run because they keep people out of nursing homes.Since the start of ... http://hope-house.org/news/blog.php/2010/disability-field-news/as-budgets-are-slashed-many-people-with-disabilities-worry-about-services/ By Danielle Thomas, wlox.comChildren are children, and all children like to have fun. That's the message that organizations that serve the disabled want the public to know. Their goal is that no child feels left out because he or she has a physical or developmental disability. Seventeen-year-old ... http://hope-house.org/news/blog.php/2010/disability-field-news/people-with-disabilities-want-to-be-treated-like-everyone-else/ By Sarah E. Needleman, The Wall Street JournalDavid Shunkey is autistic and doesn't speak. Around the start of the recession, he got laid off from two jobs. Now he's trying to run his own business.More mentally and physically challenged adults are looking to entrepreneurship as they get ... http://hope-house.org/news/blog.php/2010/disability-field-news/more-people-with-disabilities-are-becoming-business-owners/ By Stephanie Steinberg, USA TodayFor those who are blind, dyslexic or have diseases like multiple sclerosis and have difficulty turning book pages, reading the latest best seller just got easier. Brewster Kahle, a digital librarian and founder of a virtual library called the Internet Archive, ... http://hope-house.org/news/blog.php/2010/disability-field-news/digital-books-make-reading-easier-for-everyone/ A recent report from the Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General reveled errors in distribution as a result of flaws within the manual computation process.  The errors resulted in over 30,000 people being overpaid or underpaid between July of 2006 and June of 2008: over 14,000 people were ... http://hope-house.org/news/blog.php/2010/disability-field-news/398/ By Josh O'Leary, Iowa City Press Determined to help her daughter enjoy a healthy lifestyle when she moved out on her own, Betsy Riesz spent years creating recipes for her, eventually compiling a cookbook for people with disabilities. But when it was published earlier this year, ... http://hope-house.org/news/blog.php/2010/disability-field-news/mother-publishes-cookbook-to-help-increase-her-daughters-independence/