The Disability Information and Resource Centre

From the Wall Street Journal (registration required), Reuters: The Wall Street Journal reports that Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges against four Google executives over a video that showed a teen with disabilities being ...

A defining characteristic of the role is its blend of operational hands-on consulting to the line, and a more strategic approach to longer term problem solving and prevention. [Advertiser: Disability Services Australia, ...

By Rep. Steny Hoyer (D- Md.) and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), McClatchy-Tribune Information Services in the Modesto [California] Bee and the Olympia [Washington] Olympian: In the House, the ADA Amendments Act won the support of 402 ...

From the Associated Press: Miniature golf courses, amusement parks, sport stadiums, fishing piers and bowling alleys are among millions of businesses and public facilities that would be affected by regulatory changes to the Americans ...

Canadian Press/Toronto Globe and Mail: Canada’s national statistics agency reports that the percentage of people with disabilities who are finding work is growing faster than the percentage of those who don’t. ...

From USA Today: Airline travel has many characteristics that can trigger meltdown in kids with autism, experts say. Among other things, air travel involves breaks in routine, enclosure in tight spaces, crowds, noise, and demands that ...

Review of Thomas Quasthoff’s The Voice By Carolyn See in the Washington Post: Internationally acclaimed German concert baritone Thomas Quasthoff writes a memoir about his childhood and rise to fame that is “at once jaunty and “pedantic. ...

Parents make fools of their children by giving them eccentric names, a New Zealand judge says. Family Court judge Rob Murfitt launched the attack after finding a girl had been named Talula Does Th...

Editors at the Philadelphia Inquirer excoriate Michael Savage’s comments about children with autism. Actually, his rant is proof that moronic behavior can get you somewhere in life. After all, Savage has the third-largest talk-radio ...

Overweight is not greatSt George & Sutherland Shire Leader, Australia - Jul 23, 2008... the most common cause of death in Australia. Thirty-six percent of Australians will die from heart disease, which is also a leading cause of disability. ...