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AZ student with special needs avoids bullies with protection of football team

Posted by admin on Nov 14 2012
by Marie Saavedra, azfamily.com QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. -- This story starts with high school hierarchy. The kind where kids like seniors Carson Jones and Tucker Workman sail through their classes and lead the undefeated football team. “It's senior year, you know, it’s pretty exciting," Workman said. "It’s a rush, it goes by so fast but it’s fun." At the same time, students like Chy Johnson just try to make it through the day. “The girl threw trash at me," Chy said, describing one of the girls who bullies her. The 16-year-old sophomore was born with a brain disorder, and kids picking on her because of her differences have always been a part of life. But this year, her mom had enough of her coming home crying every day. She decided to call on a family friend for help. It was Carson Jones, starting quarterback....

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Families Happy Despite Severe Needs

Posted by Nathan Charlan on Jul 31 2012
Posted on DisabilityScoop.com, By Shaun Heasley July 30, 2012 Even with the severe disabilities associated with two rare chromosomal disorders, a new study finds that parents raising kids with the conditions say the experience is positive. In fact, in interviews with 332 parents who have lived with children with trisomy 13 or 18 — two disorders marked by severe disabilities and a short life span — 97 percent said their kids were happy and enriched their lives. The findings reported in the August issue of the journal Pediatrics come in sharp contrast to the predictions that families said they were offered from the medical community. Parents indicated that they were told that their children would be “incompatible with life” and would lead a “life of suffering.” Some...

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Couple with disabilities embraces joy of parenting

Posted by admin on Jul 23 2012
Posted on thestar.com in early July 2012. Written by Sarah-Taïssir Bencharif, Staff Reporter. VIDEO OF THIS STORY AVAILABLE HERE William wiggles his little arms and legs, smiling up at the moving musical mobile above his crib. His parents, Maricyl Palisoc and Charles Wilton, savour these joys of parenthood, joys very nearly taken away from them. In May, they almost lost their newborn to the Peel Children’s Aid Society because they both have a disability. Wilton, 28, and Palisoc, 34, both have cerebral palsy, a physical disability affecting their movement and motor skills. Their disability is also marked by slurred speech but has no impact on their mental capacities. “They told us we might not even bring the baby home,” Palisoc recalls of the harrowing three months of indecision prior to William’s birth on April 13...

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Sony’s caption glasses reach first US cinema

Posted by Nathan Charlan on May 02 2012
Posted: Monday, 30 April 2012 3:35pm on MediaAccess.org Sony has just launched its much anticipated cinema access technology which displays captions on a pair of glasses, replicating the look of open captions. One independent cinema chain in the USA has already signed on to install the device. After a year of testing at a handful of its cinemas, the independent Regal Entertainment Group has formalised an agreement to install Sony’s Entertainment Access Glasses in each of its locations, in line with the chain’s move to digital projection. As reported in May last year, Regal has undertaken a nationwide rollout of accessible cinema which is expected to be completed by early 2013. The rollout of personal access devices will see closed captions, aud...

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