The Lead On Update

This is the tumblr of the Lead On Update (www.leadonnetwork.org/wordpress/). The Update, a project of the Lead On Network, is your up-to-the-minute resource to discover and collect all of the week’s articles on on technology, employment, and education as well as happenings on Capitol Hill as they relate to disability. The Update is published weekly and includes articles and resources from news outlets, the blogosphere and disability related listservs and organizations.

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This woman interprets Eminem songs into sign language at his concerts. And she is mind blowing.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/g8z67l/anatomy_of_the_brain/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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A grocery clerk with cerebral palsy died of coronavirus. She had kept working to help seniors

As the coronavirus pandemic intensified, Leilani Jordan insisted on going to her job as a clerk at a Maryland grocery so she could help seni

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r/gifs - The interpreter for the Georgia Coronavirus task force is the same interpreter who absolutely crushed it at ATL Pride this past Oct

107,874 votes and 1,077 comments so far on Reddit

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IOC member says 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be postponed because of coronavirus pandemic

Veteran IOC member Dick Pound told USA TODAY Sports that "postponement has been decided" for the 2020 Olympics, and that it won't start July 24.

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Disabled Oracles and the Coronavirus

Disabled people know what it means to be vulnerable and interdependent. We are modern-day oracles. It’s time people listened to us. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, systems have …

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I painted my best representation of the struggles with anxiety.

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He designed his own prosthetic limbs! Just a smidge of disability history/pride that made me smile.

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Krewe of Tucks to debut first-ever wheelchair accessible float this Saturday

NEW ORLEANS– The Krewe of Tucks will debut a first-of-its-kind, wheelchair accessible float when it his the streets of New Orleans this Saturday. Members with special-needs, their families an…

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https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/f98t2g/he_found_his_solemate/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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r/disability - When you're trying, but your body says "Not today."

58 votes and 6 comments so far on Reddit

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https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/f3aazu/89_year_old_farmer_was_having_trouble_getting/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

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Representation matters!

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Disability Etiquette Lessons From A Campaign Encounter Gone Wrong

What is significant about this disabled man’s encounter with a well-known and leading Presidential candidate?