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A history of Down Syndrome
From their inclusion in 16th-century paintings to their roles in famous families (including, probably, Darwin's), people with Down Syndrome are part of history. At the Down Wit Dat blog, there's a...
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Disabled chicken will receive a 3D-printed prosthetic leg
[caption id="attachment_411034" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Shutterstock[/caption] Cecily is a hen who was born with a bum leg due to a damaged tendon. The options were to put her down or make her...
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The Mad Max game is every bit as brilliant on disability as Fury Road was
Mad Max: Fury Road has attracted praise for its deft handling of some of the themes that Hollywood normally gets very, very wrong. The way that women take charge, for example, the Gamergate crowd had...
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For disabled players, Twitch offers community and a second income
https://youtu.be/nhnKRg9SBQ4 Simon Parkin has done an interesting profile at the Guardian of players with disabilities who have found a community—and a supplemental income—via online streaming service...
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United Airlines sorry they forced disabled man to crawl off plane to use...
A man with physical disabilities was forced to crawled off a plane at Reagan National Airport in Arlington VA, when United Airlines failed to provide him with help disembarking. (more…)
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You think holiday air travel sucks? Try flying while disabled. On American...
If I could walk, I wouldn’t have missed my connection. If I could walk, I wouldn’t have been left onboard, twice, after everyone else disembarked. If I could walk, I wouldn’t have my feet crushed,...
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Microsoft video shows how a blind software engineer uses AI to 'see' the world
Meet Saqib, a Microsoft dev in London who lost the use of his eyes at age 7. Here's a neat little profile of his artificial intelligence development work from Microsoft Cognitive Services: (more…)
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This Ghostbusters Ecto1 Wheelchair Halloween Costume is Totally Amazing
IMGURian Ryan S. Miller posted this wonderful series of images: “Here is Jeremy's Costumer this year...The Ghostbusters Ecto-1!” “Every year we've tried to step up the scale of the costume builds we do...
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Watch how augmented reality can help those with vision impairment
Nearly 250 million people in the world have impaired vision. Oxsight is developing augmented reality glasses that could supplement or even replace canes and seeing eye dogs for many. (more…)
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Class action lawsuit filed against Uber over lack of wheelchair access in NYC...
A disability rights group is suing Uber over charges that the ride-hailing service violates New York City human rights laws by failing to ensure that enough of its vehicles are accessible to physically...
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"Monster Imagery Taught Me I Was a Monster": Riva Lehrer on Beauty,...
Standing in the Mütter Museum of medical oddities, contemplating a neat row of jars, each containing a malformed fetus with spina bifida, Riva Lehrer realized just how easily she, too, could have...
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This 'wheelchair dance' company asks, 'Where's the disability?'
At the Disability Rights Legal Center fundraiser gala this past weekend in Los Angeles, Apple was presented with DRLC's Business and Technology Award for their accessibility work, and 'Infinite Flow -...
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Watch this guy demonstrate his state-of-the-art prosthetic fingers
Naked Prosthetics creates custom-fitted hand and finger prostheses that allow an impressive range of fine motor skills to be done by the wearer, like holding and striking a match or unscrewing a tiny...
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Holiday carols, one-handed guitar, stump duct tape pick
“I was born without my right hand and play guitar with a duct tape pick I made,” says IMGURian abshow. “I play drums too!” Here is the ABShow YouTube channel. This is a clip of my drum cover of...
View ArticleDeaf couple say Delta agent "refused to communicate" with them, kicked them...
When Melissa Elmira Yingst and Socorro Garcia checked in for their flight at Detroit, they were told they'd get a seating assignment together. But at the departure gate, the request was denied—and they...
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Loving German Shepherd eyes. Wait 'til the end.
Meet Dogbert the German Shepherd. Such a loving gaze from this German Shepherd to their owner, who's rolling video. Dogbert is rolling, too. Watch it all the way to the end. Loving German Shepherd eyes...
View ArticleDisabled patients in Iowa state-run home used as "guinea pigs" in sexual...
A federal civil rights lawsuit filed this week claims that severely intellectually and physically disabled patients at a state-operated home in Iowa were used as "guinea pigs" in sexual arousal...
View ArticleHusband builds 'accessible' Nintendo Switch battle station for wife with...
All for the love of Animal Crossing in the coronavirus pandemic. "My (relatively) young wife is in a nursing home with very aggressive [multiple sclerosis], writes her husband, IMGURian @KWIP. "She...
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Company makes beautiful RPG miniatures of characters in wheel chairs
As someone who spent years needing the assistance of a wheel chair, seeing these miniatures made me very happy. It's wonderful to think of special needs kids (and adults) being able to see characters...
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How open source designs and 3D-printing make prosthetics more accessible
Vice France has a great new article about the ways that 3D printing is disrupting the prosthetic limb industry. While a standard upper-body prosthetic can cost anywhere from $5,000 to $120,000, the...
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How TikTok crowdsourced an open-source 3D-printed pill bottle opener plan for...
The Auto Pill Bottle is a pretty cool invention that automatically dispenses pills, instead of forcing people with physical disabilities such as Parkinson's Disease to struggle with pressing down and...
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How the language of special education denigrates kids with disabilities
Growing up in the 90s, I remember the phrase "differently-abled" being upheld as a synecdoche for the absurdity of "PC language." And as a kid, I almost certainly fell in line with accepting that it...
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Woman with a disability asks to be euthanized after being denied accessible...
From CTV News in Canada: A 31-year-old Toronto woman who uses a wheelchair is nearing final approval for a medically assisted death request after a fruitless bid to secure an affordable apartment that...
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DRM wheelchairs take us nowhere
Cory Doctorow writes about the appalling reality of DRM wheelchairs. When these devices fail they trap people in their homes and beds, and manufacturers use copyright law to prevent them being repaired...
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Comments about disabled worker could land Musk in more legal trouble
In a pathetically desperate attempt to curry the favor of right-wing shitposter Catturd, Elon Musk tweeted a comment about firing a disabled Twitter employee that could result in legal action, says...
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10 principles of disability justice
At the beginning, and throughout the first two years of the ongoing, yet to be over, COVID-19 pandemic, ideas pioneered by disability justice organizations were finally given credence by larger swaths...
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Air Canada told a disabled man it had no time to get him a wheelchair. He...
Rodney Hodgins, 49, has spastic cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair. Air Canada staff told him he'd have to do without when his flight landed in Vegas. He did without, literally dragging himself off...
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Woman loses £650,000 disability lawsuit after it emerges she won Christmas...
Kamila Grabska, 36, sued an insurance company over disabling injuries she said made her unable to work for more than five years. But Grabska's claim was undermined when it emerged she had won a...
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Brittle Joints is a beautiful and harrowing graphic memoir about chronic pain
Invisible disabilities can be a uniquely frustrating experience. That's not just because of the part where you're forced to exist in a world that hasn't been designed with your specific needs in mind....
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