Fair Opportunity for Disabled Employees There are certain forms of workplace discrimination that are not allowed in the United States under the Employment Law. The employer must be discriminating on the basis of a protected category in order for the discrimination to be considered illegal. Such forms of illegal discrimination protected under the area of…

9 Mobility Scooter Questions Answered Do you own a mobility/handicap scooter or planning to get one but have some questions in mind about it? Here are nine questions that people often asked regarding mobility scooters along with their answers. Can people under 18 years old ride a mobility scooter? Is there an age restriction? People…

Talking With Kids About Illness I asked the doctors, ‘So how do I talk to my children about their illness? What do I tell them when they ask questions about how long they’ll live?’ And they said, ‘Treat it just like when kids ask questions about sex- answer them on a ‘need-to-know basis’.’ ‘Okay,’ I…

Home and Residential Stair Lifts – A Solution to Handicapped Individuals Residential stair lifts are really designed to help those handicap person and those who have trouble in their legs in climbing on a stair. It helps them to leave normally inside their home. Home disability lifts will become their assistance in doing those things.…

Disabled access in the Forefront – Platform Lifts Since 1995, and the introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), architects and structural engineers have made sure disabled access is one of the top considerations in the design of buildings. Due to the lavish history of our country and the architecture that supports it, many of…

Four Things You Need to Know about Your Child’s Autism Autism is the epidemic of the future. Where once rates of autism were as low as 1 in 20,000 only a few decades ago, they are not only 1 in 125, and getting higher every single year. Doctors are trying to find out the causes…

Talking Books For The Blind – ‘That All May Read’ Audio books are a visually impaired product that provides the enjoyment of a good book. For a blind child, they can not hold the book to see the pictures of Harry Potter or Cat In The Hat but can still enjoy the excitement all genres…

Could Cranial Sacral Autism Therapy Help Your Child? Cranial sacral autism therapy (CST) is one of many natural treatment options used to assist autistic children. It employs a form of light touching that is thought stimulates the natural healing powers of the body. The process focuses on the way the craniosacral system (the head and…

Tetraplegic gains Pilots Licence with the APT Charitable Trust, Old Sarum Wiltshire. Rob Bryan became a C6/7 Tetraplegic after all fall in 1999, before this he was an active thrill seeker regularly rock climbing and trekking in Brazil, East Africa and the Himalayas. ‘Originally I liked the thought of flying a hang glider yet my…

Derby Amputee Club  It has long been the desire of the Amputee Rehabilitation Centre at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary to set up a social organisation for the clients that they deal with on a day by day basis, so at the beginning of 2007 a meeting was arranged and the Derby Amputee Club was formally…

How to Get Needed Methodology, in Your Child’s IEP Are you the parent of a young child with autism, that thinks that they need applied behavioural analysis (ABA) treatment, through your school district? Are you the parent of a child with dyslexia, who feels that your child needs an Orton-Gillingham based reading program? This article…