BAC Rutland

Retail giant Walmart has teamed up with The Arc of the United States – the world’s largest community-based organization of and for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities – to establish the Walmart Foundation School-to-Community Transition Project.

The Walmart Foundation awarded The Arc a $3 million to start the project, which will be dedicated to improving outcomes for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities, especially during the transition from school to adult life.
(more…)

For the first time since he was seriously injured in Iraq in 2006, the ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff returned to the war zone on Monday.

Mr. Woodruff, 47, who is perhaps the highest-profile member of the news media to be wounded in the six-year-long war, has sought to keep a spotlight on Iraq, and especially on the soldiers who experience traumatic brain injury and combat stress while on duty there. Mr. Woodruff said in an ABCNews.com blog post that he would be interviewing front-line doctors and nurses and viewing new equipment that is said to reduce injuries among the military forces in that country.
(more…)

Day in Washington Disability Policy Podcast – Episode Summary:  Day in Washington looks atU.S. Supreme Court Building disability policy issues. Today’s podcast/blog post is a about Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.  On July 13th,  the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin their hearings to determine whether or not to confirm her for the position.

In the past, many disability groups have been cautious about supporting or opposing judicial nominees because it can be a very political and partisan affair. (more…)

July 16, 2009 | Jimmy and Darlene Korpai of Crawford, N.Y., will always remember the night they fired Donald Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice.”

It was this past April, and the contestants’ task was to create a viral video promoting All detergent.
(more…)

Organizational cost savings and effectiveness. People with disabilities. The environment. Individual health and family well being.

You may wonder what these disparate issues have in common. The answer is that each would be significantly enhanced by the widespread adoption by both private and public employers of home-based employment practices such as telecommuting.
(more…)

News, information and resources from the Aspergers perspective

NEW YORK — Like any other golden retriever seeking a treat, Tuesday nudged his owner’s hand with his snout one recent morning and waited expectantly.

Luis Carlos Montalvan got up from a chair in his small Brooklyn apartment and walked to the kitchen. Tuesday followed close behind, eyes fixed on a white cabinet. The retriever sat alertly as Mr. Montalvan, an Iraq war veteran with severe post-traumatic stress disorder, reached for a vial of pills, lined a half-dozen on the table and took them one by one.
(more…)

With celebrations of sorts expected this summer to herald the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act 19 years ago, there are those who think the purchase of a birthday or anniversary card is in order. I, regrettably, submit that a “get well” card would be more appropriate.
(more…)

By Tara Parker-Pope

The death of superstar Michael Jackson has cast the spotlight on a little known autoimmune disease called lupus. In an interview on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, the wellness guru Dr. Deepak Chopra, a longtime friend of Michael Jackson, disclosed that the singer suffered from lupus. (more…)

By Jessica Calefati
Posted July 7, 2009

Cindy Kilmer will never forget the look of that chair. Worn, leather straps crisscrossed over its high-back, wooden structure—one strap to hold the head and additional straps to restrain the chest, waist, knees, ankles, and wrists. It resembled an electric chair, Kilmer says. (more…)