November 2, 2010 – 11:05 AM
By Joe Monks, Guest Writer Let me get this out of the way. I’m blind. Not legally blind, not visually impaired, not optically challenged. The lights are out. My life is lived in total darkness. When I announced, via a press release, that I was moving from the field of comic book and prose writing [...]
October 20, 2010 – 11:48 AM
By Jennifer Green, MS, Guest Writer One out of every five Americans or 20% of our population has a disability. Research has found that the number of health disparities increases significantly in those individuals with disabilities when compared to the general population, individuals with disabilities often have a much higher rate of obesity in both [...]
September 14, 2010 – 8:27 AM
By Keith Hosey, Guest Writer I’ve been working in the disability rights field for seven years and have been in the “business” of disability since I was born with the congenital disability of severe bilateral club feet. My parents never told me “you can’t” when it came to my disability, in fact they didn’t even [...]
Amazing what can happen when you bring together a bunch of young people with good hearts, strong backs and some summer free-time with a few old guys who really know what they’re doing. Throw in a project or two that will literally change the lives of others for the better and you have another Ability [...]
Okay, here’s a recipe for FUN!: a really warm day, a bunch of teens, a couple of hoses, buckets, sponges and soap. Throw in a long line of cars and vans and “BAM!”, you’ve got yourself a fun time AND a car wash rolled into one. You also have a recipe for making a little [...]
Unprecedented. At least, in the memories of those of us long a part of the Center. Never has a Director of the Rehabilitation Services Commission visited the Ability Center, especially not with the same intent as that of Michael Rench, current Director. As part of his goal to personally visit and dialogue with every Independent [...]
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590, Public Law 111-148) was signed into law on March 23, 2010. Implementation of this law will be a lengthy process with some provisions effective immediately and others that will not go into effect until 2014. Two important provision of the insurance market reforms that go into [...]
