Mar 2008
INDIA
India launches site for disabled
By Tinku Ray, BBC News, Delhi
Indian government has launched its first interactive web portal
for people with disabilities.
The site, whose name,
Punarbhava, means to reinvent oneself, offers information
for people with disabilities and for those who work with them.
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Para Olympics champion alleges humiliation
Source: Times Now TV
3/19/2008 12:18:52 PM
A disabled athlete - no less than a para Olympics champion - has
accused the crew of a leading airline of humiliation.
India's para Olympic shotput champion Malti Hola has today
(March 19) charged Jet Airways officials with humiliating her.
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If disability not due to service, armymen cannot claim benefit
Source: Economic Times India
23 Mar, 2008, 1216 hrs IST, PTI
NEW DELHI: An armyman is not entitled to any "disability
pension" benefit if the said condition is not attributable to
the military service rendered, the Supreme Court has said.
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People must sensitize themselves to the needs of the physically challenged
Source: Thaindian.com
Soni, March 19th, 2008 - 7:13 pm ICT by admin
New Delhi, Mar 19 (ANI): Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika
Soni today said that any proposal for inclusion of disability
studies in academic discipline should be supported as it will
create an awareness in society about the needs and rights of the
physically challenged.
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10th issue of EMPOWERED newsletter
This issue of EMPOWERED newsletter covers South Asia Region
including Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka for the
period October to December 2007.
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US sends back paralysed techie to Delhi
Source: The Times of India
8 Mar 2008, 0047 hrs IST,Risha Chitlangia,TNN
NEW DELHI: Manjunath Kalmani occasionally gives a confused smile. But his eyes never smile. Framed by the iron headrest of his hospital bed, a striped sheet draped over him, Manju remains immobile. Actually, he can't move even he wanted to — he has been paralysed neck down following a car accident in the US on May 1, 2002.
Differently-abled struggle for success in boards
Nimisha Srivastava / CNN-IBN
Mumbai: The 12th standard board exams of the Maharashtra State Board are just a few days away. However, once again, the authorities seem to have turned a blind eye to the plight of physically challenged students.
A visually challenged student, Anand Kulkarni is preparing hard ahead of his 12th standard board exams, however, revision for him is a difficult affair.
Blind man, 'black magic' man among Godhra accused
Toral Varia / CNN-IBN
Godhra: Six years ago, coach S-6 of the Sabarmati Express was burnt causing the death of 59 Kar Sevaks making it the flashpoint of the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Ishaq Mumdu is among the 134 accused of burning the train. Arrested under POTA, he has been in jail for five years.
But the twist is that Mumdu is blind and is one amongst the 84 who are languishing in this State Central Jail.
Workshop on learning disability held
Express news service
Posted online: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 11:48:25
Pune, February 26 “Childern with learning disability problems, according to the Bombay High Court, can avail of the use of typewriters or writers to write their answer papers in the board examination,” said Dr D S Karwa, associate professor, Department of Paediatrics, D Y Patil Medical College at a workshop on learning disability conducted on Sunday. B S Mane, registrar, Dr D Y Patil Medical College inaugurated the workshop.
To put it more simply, dyslexia implies a difficulty with words...
To quote a dyslexic "For me words are meaningless – just labels to be put on pictures. If the label falls off or changes, I don't care, because I'm thinking in pictures. The challenge is in explaining it to this highly verbal world that relies solely on the language of words to define itself."
Culture in the Further Development of Universal Design
Scott Rains, D. Min
srains@oco.net
By now most readers of Design for All India have a healthy grasp of Universal Design. Many, perhaps most, have become highly competent in its application as is evident from the articles appearing in past volumes and today.
Please find the article in the newsletter at the following link
http://www.designforall.in/newsletter.html
http://www.designforall.in/newsletter_Feb_2008.pdf
This farmer fights disability with iron hand
Chandigarh Newsline - Chandigarh,India
Ludhiana, March 2 Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Satwant Singh Swatch from Naulari village, Khanna.
INTERNATIONAL
Down Syndrome plastic surgery 'child abuse'
Source: The Age Australia, Marika Dobbin, March 11, 2008 - 10:28AM
The case of a five-year-old British girl with Down Syndrome who
underwent plastic surgery three times has come under fire from
Australian disability advocates.
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Ballet - Hand in Hand
She without arm, he without leg - ballet - Hand in Hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnLVRQCjh8c
Maternity care and disability study
Source: Irish Health
[Posted: Mon 10/03/2008 by Niall Hunter, Editor]
How the health service caters for women with disabilities in
relation to pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood is to be
the subject of new research.
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Choosing a deaf baby is criminal
Source: The Times
By Daniel Finkelstein
It is amazing how good people can have bad ideas through muddled
thinking
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Injury a leading killer of children in Asia: Groundbreaking research highlights need to tackle injury prevention
BANGKOK, 11 March 2008 - Children in Asia are at great risk of
dying from injuries such as drowning and road accidents. Surveys
from Bangladesh, China, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam
reveal that injury is the leading cause of death and disability
among children older than one year of age in these countries,
with drowning taking the heaviest toll.
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disABILITY: Make people focus on personality
Source: The Daily Star, New York
It all started back in September. I was sitting on the floor of
my living room with one of my female friends, moping around and
exchanging stories of prior man troubles we both had
experienced.
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New 'fairness' Act to replace equality laws
Source: The Telegraph UK
By Ben Leapman, Home Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:38am GMT 10/03/2008
A powerful new anti-discrimination Bill is to be unveiled by the
Government, ushering in the biggest overhaul of equality
legislation in 40 years.
More than 100 Acts, codes and directives introduced since the
Sixties to outlaw prejudice based on race, faith, sex and
sexuality will be swept away in favour of a single requirement
for employees to be treated fairly.
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Writers Wanted for Disability Rights!
Calling all Writers for the RatifyNow CRPD Blog Swarm 2008!
For more details about the CRPD and the celebratory blog swarm, please follow the link to: http://ratifynow.org/latest-news/blog-swarm/
A pioneer views disability as the final frontier in civil rights
Keith P. Jones, who was born with cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, is a disability rights consultant and advocate as well as a composer, producer, and hip-hop performer. (Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff)
Autism Is Complex Developmental Disability
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article was provided by www.autism-society.org.
Increasingly more information is becoming available through a variety of sources regarding autism. But just what is autism?
http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20080227/NEWS08/802260351
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3 NJ teens accused of sexual assault
By DAVID PORTER, Associated Press Writer
Wed Mar 12, 12:06 AM ET
MONTCLAIR, N.J. - Three teenage boys have been charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old special education student, in a case that has drawn parallels to a widely publicized attack nearly 20 years ago in a neighboring town.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080312/ap_on_re_us/teen_sex_assault
RESOURCES
Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Care
SCI Care - The art and science of managing therapies, routines, medication, supplies, equipment and everything else needed to maintain the spinal injured person in top health.
SCI India Discussion Group
SCI India Discussion Group - is a meeting place for the Spinal Cord Injured and their caregivers, to share information and to support others.
You can know more or be part of this group by clicking on the following link
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/SCI-India/
TSUNAMI: LESSONS LEARNED
UNICEF Humanitarian Action Reports:
2004 INDIAN OCEAN EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI: LESSONS LEARNED
http://www.unicef.org/har08/files/har08_tsunami_lessons.pdf
Deaf Ex-Mainstreamers' Group
Most Deaf schools have closed in the UK, and deaf children are not being cared for in hearing mainstream schools. For details visit www.dex.org.uk
PRESENTATION OF THE "TRAINING MANUAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITY" IN GENEVA
During the seventh session of the Council on Human rights due in
Geneva, next 18th March 2008, the "Training Manual on Human
Rights for Persons with Disabilities" will be presented.
The Manual has been prepared by AIFO (Italian Association Amici
di Raoul Follereau) and DPI - Italy (Disabled People
International) in collaboration with the Mongolian National
Federation of Organizations of Persons with Disabilities (DPOs)
and with the financial contribution of United Nations, in
English and Mongolian languages.
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Click on the following link to download this manual