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Mary Johnson: ‘Write’ Stuff for
the Disability Movement
In the early 1980s I was fresh out of college, a restless youth eager to enjoy life
in the big city. But public transit was not wheelchair accessible; neither was
much of the infrastructure
By Mike Ervin
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Peter Kahrmann: Felled by Bullet, Now He
Lifts Up Others
By Amy Halloran 
"It is not uncommon at all that people
with frontal-lobe damage become disinhibited," said Kahrmann, who lives with
his three dogs in a countrylike setting west of Albany, N.Y. "There's no
filter. In my case, I've always been this open, and I'm not entirely sure
why."
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Kahrmann
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Stem Cell Therapy Showing New Promise
By Mike Reynolds 
In other areas of the world, stem cell treatments are
already restoring vision to people who are blind
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treatment
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At 25, WID Still Making a Difference
By Janine Bertram Kemp
With gospel soul provided by the Blind
Boys of Alabama, the World Institute on Disability celebrated its 25th birthday
at a bash at the Oakland Marriott this past November.
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WID
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Center Director Yildiz 'Homes In' on
Success
By Amy Halloran
Gil Yildiz is the executive director at the Independent
Living Resource Center in Albuquerque, N.M. Born in Turkey, she was raised in
New York City and lived there until she took her current position, more than
nine years ago
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For Those with Mental Illness, Access to
Care Part of Cure
By Brenda Brown-Grooms
According to the Web site HealthyPlace.com, mental illness
is a disease that causes mild to severe disturbances in thinking, perception
and behavior.
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Mental Illness
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At the Oscars, Group Acts To Protest Jerry
Lewis Award
Janine Bertram Kemp
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article click here
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Revised IRS Form 990 Requirements
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Directors
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College Students with Disabilities Should Learn Their
History
By Deborah Kendrick
Second, as the only blind student in a large public high
school, I didn't exactly know how to go about researching institutions of
higher learning. This was the late 1960s, after all, so there was no
Internet
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College Students
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Disability Funding Included in Stimulus
Package
For NCIL's Disability Related
Funding
Registration is now open for NCIL's 2009
Annual Conference on Independent Living!
NCIL Annual Conference 2009 Believe: We Are Better
Reenergize, Reorganize, Reauthorize!
June 5-8, 2009, Grand Hyatt
Washington
NCIL Registration click
here,
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Employment Status for Persons with
Disabilities Released
Article on Disabilities and
Employment
Having a Ball at Inauguration Weekend
By Mike Reynolds
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New Digital TV Era About to Dawn Beginning
Updated to June 12th, 2009, over-the-air -analog broadcast television will
end in the United States
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| Aging with Cerebral Palsy: Many Questions,
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| U.S. Treasury Loses Fight over Accessible
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