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Access as Model: How Students with Intellectual Disabilities Can Improve Higher Education

If higher education programs for people with intellectual disabilities are to work to the fullest extent, students should not be merely included. Higher education should change to mark their valued presence.

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Employability and College Graduates with Disabilities

Finding that first job after graduating college is difficult, to say the least, but for those with a disability the challenge is even greater. Employability is greater if one earns a bachelor’s degree; this is especially true for persons with a disability.

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UWF Mechanical Engineering ‘ArgoTots’ Program Helps Kids With Limited Mobility

Six University of West Florida mechanical engineering students recently finished the first-modified vehicle of the ArgoTots program, which helps young children who experience limited mobility. The vehicle was designed for four-year-old Jack Carroll, who was born prematurely and has a form of cerebral palsy.

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Students Lead Efforts to Boost Employment of Autistic Young Adults

By developing an employer manual and a series of training sessions, MERISTEM students who are part of an advocacy group in California aim to lower the high unemployment rates among young adults with autism spectrum disorder.

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FSU Professors Receive IES Grants to Advance Special Education Research

The Institute for Education Sciences (IES) has awarded Early Career grants to Drs. Laura Steacy and Jenny Root, who are both assistant professors of special education in the Florida State University College of Education. Steacy and Root will receive $500,000 each over a four-year period to research ways to support students with learning disabilities. Steacy’s […]

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Lauded Special Olympics Program To Continue with Federal Funding

Unified Champion Schools, a Special Olympics educational program that has been saved from the federal fiscal chopping block, is known as an initiative whose benefits extend beyond the intellectually disabled.

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Disability Rights Attorney Carrie Ann Lucas Dies at 47

Nationally known disability rights attorney Carrie Ann Lucas, has died. She was 47 years old. “[Lucas] died after an arbitrary denial from an insurance company caused a plethora of health problems, exacerbating her disabilities and eventually leading to her premature death,” her family and friends wrote in a Facebook post on Lucas’ page. The ultimate […]

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Candidates of Size – Highlighting Sizeism in Job Searches

Fatphobia, also known as anti-fat bias and sizeism, continues to engender difficult experiences for our students and our colleagues and it manifests in many ways, including our job search processes.

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On Being a Professor with Autism, and Traveling the World to Destigmatize It

People on the autism spectrum have similar characteristics no matter their nationality or race. However, there are great differences in societal awareness, acceptance and appreciation of people on the autism spectrum throughout the world.

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HBCU Websites Must Adhere to American with Disabilities Act Guidelines

Over the next few years schools that fail to address whether their websites and other tools are consistent with ADA guidelines will encounter additional challenges. This is important considering that HBCUs are traditionally underfunded.

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CSUN Explorers Program to Benefit People with Disabilities

California State University, Northridge (CSUN) will begin a two-year program starting this fall called CSUN Explorers in hopes of increasing the employability and independence of those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. CSUN Explorers is a postsecondary program accessible through the university’s Tseng College. Individuals in the program will not be earning a degree, but will […]

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Panel Dissects Role of Suspensions in School-To-Prison Pipeline

Statistics abounded Wednesday evening during a panel discussion titled “School to Prison Pipeline: Decriminalizing Public Education” co-sponsored by New America, the National Black Child Development Institute and the Greater Washington Urban League,

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