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Reminder: The National Statler Center, 1160 Main St. is accepting applications from blind, visually impaired and physically disabled individuals for career training in hospitality, customer service and contact center professions. Classes for the 10-week course begin Jan. 18. The program provides customer service training for jobs in hotels, call centers, financial and medical offices, transportation and communication fields. Training also includes Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook using Assistive Technology. Personal job-search assistance is included. The job placement rate for graduates is 82 percent. Contact Jeff Pease at (716) 888-4526 or visit: www.StatlerCenter.org
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Age: 57
Residence: Moon
... disabilities into full-time, competitive jobs and provides training and assistive technology ser...
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The National Statler Center, 1160 Main St., is accepting applications from blind, visually impaired and physically disabled individuals for career training in hospitality, customer service and contact center professions. Classes for the 10-week course begin Jan. 18, 2012. The program provides customer service training for jobs in hotels, call centers, financial and medical offices, transportation and communication fields. Training also includes Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook using Assistive Technology. Personal job-search assistance is included. The job placement rate for graduates is 82 percent. Contact Jeff Pease at (716) 888-4526 or visit: www.StatlerCenter.org
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This final rule implements section 2401 of the Affordable Care Act, which establishes a new State option to provide home and community-based attendant services and supports. These services and supports are known as Community First Choice (CFC). While this final rule sets forth the requirements for implementation of CFC, we are not finalizing the section concerning the CFC setting.
... 93-112, enacted on September 26, 1973); assistive technology devices and services other than backup ... community participation may be access to jobs in the community, recreational outings, participat...
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There's going to be a crisis on our hands," Deborah Davis Pierson, who cares for her developmentally disabled son under the Developmental Disabilities Waiver Program, tells SFR. "There's going to be people who can't afford to live anymore, people with disabilities that either have to move into group homes or be left on their own.
"We don't have a bias in favor of group homes," [Deborah Busemeyer] says. "We support families choosing what's right for them and for the person who needs services." Busemeyer acknowledges that the proposed cuts drew more heavily from family living, but "that doesn't mean we favor group homes," she says.
"It's horrible what they're doing," [Sandy Skaar] says. "We're creating a system of haves and have-nots, people who can afford things and people who can't - ...
... disabled people and helping them find jobs to hiring physical therapists, training staff in bbehavioral therapy and providing assistive technology. "The most graphic example," Schwartz s...
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... of their impairment with medication or assistive devices, as in Sutton, Murphy and Krukenberg. ... She has supported herself through various jobs and she has bought and insured her own car. But I ... medication, orthotics and assistive technology. The phenomenon is due in part to advances in ass...
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To: LIFESTYLES EDITORS
Contact: Mark S. Quigley of the National Council on Disability, +1-202-272-2004, or mquigley@ncd.gov
... is feasible due in part to advances in assistive technology that make it possible for people with ddisabilities to perform a wide range of jobs, and in part to progress in attitudes toward disab...
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Clarisse Young, +1-202-693-5051, Bennett Gamble, +1-202- 693-4667, both of U.S. Department of Labor
... accommodations, and information on assistive and communications technology. "At the Department of Labor, our goal is good jobs for everyone, and we mean people with disabilities...
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The engineering school at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs has launched an initiative to turn research done by its faculty into marketable products and create jobs for local residents by fostering startup companies.
"Dan" Dandapani, dean of the UCCS College of Engineering and Applied Science, started Global Engineering Ventures (GeV) in April. The initiative will help seek financial backing for startups that will turn six technologies into marketable products. Those six include national security and nanotechnology technologies, next- generation online learning and assistive technologies for handicapped people.
..."This is not technology transfer, but pre-incubation to create companies t...
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... with disabilities, such as housing stock, jobs, transportation, and so on. . What is now needed i... used his experiences in working with assistive technology to obtain a new position with Techlink ...