Britain's new Interior Minister David Blunkett was told at school to study piano tuning -- his teachers thought that was the best a blind boy could hope to do.
The National Federation of the Blind recently received a grant to provide a free nation wide job finding service called \America's Jobline" for one year starting July 1, 2001."
The Resource Center for Persons With Disabilities' (RCPD)'s Psychiatric/Brain Injury Specialist, Stoney Polman, Receives the Individual Award for Excellence in Sustained Effort Toward Diversity.
Since the first week of September 2000, Virginia (Ginger) Martz has filled the position of Interim Blindness\\Visual Impairment and Chronic Health\\Mobility Specialist at RCPD.
A golfer's four-year battle to participate in PGA tournaments climaxed on January 17, when the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in PGA, Inc. v. Casey Martin.
Almost two years after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in Olmstead v. L.C. and E.W., the legal and political maneuvering continues.
On December 8, 2000, Ray Kurzweil visited the Assistive Technology Center at the RCPD. There, he was met by staff and students representing many areas where his inventions have made an impact.
Now, if you are sitting in your residence hall office and you need to get to class (or perhaps a shopping trip at one of the local malls) whom do you call? CATA.
Taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is a familiar rite of passage for high school students. Without the exam, it is almost impossible to get into college.
Ironically, states' rights, an issue that divided the country during the Civil War, will be resurrected when the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama.
The 1998 National Organization on Disability/Harris Poll of Americans with Disabilities, a nationwide survey of 1,000 Americans with disabilities aged 16 and older, was conducted in mid-1998.