Disability News and Articles 3.27.17


Conn pleads guilty in massive disability scheme

Huntington Herald Dispatch-Federal prosecutors claimed Conn raked in millions of dollars by paying a doctor and a judge to rubber-stamp false disability claims using ...

How States Are Trying to End the Disability Unemployment Crisis

Truth-Out-Data in the newly released 2016 Disability Statistics Compendium are highlighting a pernicious, and complex, disparity for the disability ...

New rules for filing disability claims go into effect Monday

KXAN.com-Until now, that rule required the SSA to give significant weight to a doctor's report that would support someone's claims for disability. The rule ...

Collapse Of Health Care Bill Leaves Medicaid Unscathed

Disability Scoop-“This is absolutely a win for people with disabilities,” said Julia Bascom, executive director of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, after learning ...

Rights of learning-disabled students bolstered by high court

Santa Fe New Mexican-WASHINGTON — A unanimous Supreme Court has bolstered the rights of millions of learning-disabled students in a ruling that requires public ...

Machine Learning Opens Up New Ways to Help Disabled People

MIT Technology Review-Software that can understand images, sounds, and language is being used to help people with disabilities such as deafness and autism in new ...

Ask a Career Coach: How Do I Brag About My Work Without Being Obnoxious?

The Daily Muse / by Kyle Lee-If you're working hard but your boss isn't aware of it, it's probably time to start bragging about your achievements (without sounding like a jerk).

UT Center Disability@TCDS_UT

A Short History of The Disability Rights Movement, 1960-Present meriahnichols.com/the-disability…

U..S. EEOC@EEOCNews

Are you a younger individual beginning your first job? The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission developed... fb.me/1g982E8ap

UT Center Disability@TCDS_UT

How University Professors React to Requests for Disability Accommodations crippledscholar.wordpress.com/2015/07/12/the…

UIC Career Services@UICCareerSrvcs

Your body language speaks as loudly as your words.... fb.me/8mniIChfe