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Benefits For People With Disabilities

The Social Security and Supplemental Security Income disability programs are the largest of several Federal programs that provide assistance to people with disabilities. While these two programs are different in many ways, both are administered by the Social Security Administration and only individuals who have a disability and meet medical criteria may qualify for benefits under either program.

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Disability is not an obstacle to success.

“Disability need not be an obstacle to success,” Stephen Hawking wrote in the first ever world disability report back in 2011. As one of the most influential scientists of modern times, the wheelchair-bound physicist is certainly proof of that. So why then are public attitudes so far from the reality? Almost 40% of respondents in a survey in Britain said that disabled people aren’t as productive…

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Survey

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Right to Education

The Right to Education for Persons with Disability is anchored in the United Nation Hunan Rights. Courtesy of the United Nation Here are 5 Highlight of these rights

1. States Parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to education. With a view to realizing this right without discrimination and on the basis of equal opportunity, States Parties shall ensure an inclusive education…

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Adaptive Sports

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Meeting_d%27Athlétisme_Paralympique_de_Paris_-_Iris_Pruysen_01.jpg Sports for Persons with Disability, also adaptive sports or parasports, are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities. As many disabled sports are based on existing able bodied sports, modified to meet the needs of persons with a…

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Lets us Help Emily Mokayah My name is Emily, I got injured after a fall in 2004.After several medical intervention with no better results, Am referred to go to India I need corrective surgery that involves stabilising of cervical (neck) spine, decompression and possible fusion of spine.

RIP Stan Mathenge

RIP STAN MATHENGE?

I take this opportunity to send my heart felt condolences to the family of Stan Mathenge. Stan has left without saying goodbye to the comrades both old and young!! Here are some of the condolence messages to his family See Also:RIP Robert Gesanda

May You Rest with The Angels

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First Deaf Woman Start Up CEO

India’s 1st Deaf woman Start Up entrepreneur who wowed the audience at ‘Huddle Kerala’ conclave…Its with Great Pride , We introduce Theertha Nirmal – Founder & CEO.1st Deaf Start up Woman Entrepreneur In India!!! Her dream is the Mission of signNEXT is Deaf Empowerment.Inclusive Innovation and Technology Makes Things Possible for…

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What is a learning disability? Information for carers

What is a learning disability? The government states that a learning disability is a “significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning acquired before adulthood”. This means that people with a learning disability will have difficulty with: • Difficulties with learning new things, remembering, understanding and problem solving. • Difficulties with communicating, looking…

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The Ultimate Guide to Adapting Your Home If You have Visual Impairment

How to get home adaptations if you’re blind or partially-sighted. And some of the best adaptations you can have. If you’re blind or partially-sighted, adapting your home could help you continue to live there independently. To provide you with the best information possible about home adaptations, this article is split into two sections:

1. A collection of some of the best home adaptations for…

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Acts of kindness

We take one moment to honor Kenya wildlife service Ranger who took his time off his busy schedule to carry a disabled girl in a mountain in Aberdare National park. students from Joyland special school in Kisumu went for a school trip to the Aberdare National park but one girl was left in the school bus because she is physically challenged. The Ranger Phillip Wesa decided to take care of the…

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Travelling With Disabilities

Times have changed for travelers who use wheelchairs, are visually or hearing-impaired or have another disability, says Jayne Bliss, a travel adviser with Tzell, who has more than 30 years of experience in planning trips for those with special needs. “No place is off limits, and hotels, museums and cultural institutions offer more accessibility than ever before,” Ms. Bliss said. Here are some of…

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RIP Robert Gesanda

Robert Gesanda is Dead

Robert who used to work for NCPWD in their ABC place is dead, he was 30 years old HE died of Complication in his lungs. He was using his only leg (right leg) he is able to make his bed, shower, brush his teeth, put on his clothes, move around, operate a computer and do creative drawings.

Messages of…

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Disability Mainstreaming

Disability mainstreaming is the process of integrating issues and people into ‘mainstream’ society and development programmes

The following support services are available; in the University of Nairobi

1. Advocacy and /or advice on issues related to disability 2. Suitable accommodation for students with disability. 3. Provision of disability aids such as hearing aids, 4. Repair and maintenance of…

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#Disability mainstreaming

Discrimination in Police Service

Kenya’s Policemen ares facing massive pay cut especially for the policemen who have acquired disability while in service. The latest information reaching us say that policemen with disability are taking home something close to -200 shillings from their payslip.The policeman service Commission’s Chief Executive Officer Joseph Onyango…

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RIP Stephen Hawking

I first encountered Stephen Hawking on the cover of the New York Times magazine. Inside, its pages told a story we all know today, but at the time it was a revelation: a Cambridge astrophysicist sought to solve the great mysteries of the universe, while he himself was trapped in a wheelchair by a progressive neurogenerative disease. I remember being struck by writer Timothy Ferris’s description…

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#Stephen Hawkings

Resources for Persons with Disability

Here are detailed Disability Resources tat can be of help especially in equipping us for the job market

Cappex.com Cappex.com is a resource site for college scholarships. Check it out at Cappex.com/scholarships.

Disability Corner is a premier provider in helping individuals obtain the Social Security disability benefits they have already applied for, or if you have been denied. Disability Corner…

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