INCLUSION DAILY EXPRESS -- Below The Fold: October 19, 2005

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BELOW THE FOLD

Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Today's list includes 39 items. Some sites may require registration.
Editor's picks -- those considered particularly interesting, newsworthy or well-written -- are marked with an asterisk (*).

Links are listed alphabetically by country, then by state, province or territory.
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Hurricanes Katrina & Rita
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
United Kingdom
United States

HURRICANES KATRINA & RITA
LCCR Katrina Letters to White House
Built with love, new home suits this special family to a T
Residents Moving Out
Common sense and bureaucracy rarely meet
Katrina prompts caregivers to review their plans
Bus driver a witness in grand jury inquiry

AUSTRALIA
(Criminal justice system) Cornelia Rau sister tells of hate mail
(Criminal justice system) Govt defends detention funding bonuses -- refers to Cornelia Rau

CANADA
* (Euthanasia) Parliament's assisted-suicide debate expected to split parties

NEW ZEALAND
(Crime) Family may re-lay complaint against charged doctor
* (Families / Children) Help for parents difficult to find says Families Commission

UNITED KINGDOM
(Crime) Clamp on 'disabled' badge cheats
(Employment) Disability is last choice for equality investment
* (Service animals) It's a dog's life
* (Travel / Accessibility) Disability lobby group denies Ryanair disabled flyers limit
* (Travel / Accessibility) RNIB investigates Ryanair's online offering
England
(Employment) Axed disabled staff meet union
* (Employment) Constable with hearing impairment to be allowed on force
Wales
(Crime) Sex 'therapy' psychologist guilty

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UNITED STATES
* (Advocacy) Bazelon Center: Unregulated Residential Treatment Facilities Exploit Children and Families
* (Employment) Labor Department's Head of Disability Employment Policy Kicks Off Mentoring Day 2005
(Institutions - nursing homes) Nursing Home Patients Get Go-Ahead for Class Action Over Medicare Denials
* (Misc) Bazelon Center: Proposed SSA Disability Rules Raise Serious Concerns

Arkansas
* (Institutions / Abuse) State Hospital reports 6 substantiated patient abuse cases

California
(Institutions - nursing homes) Nursing home monitor files suit
(Institutions - nursing homes) State Sued in Probes of Care Homes

Florida
(Health care) HHS Approves Innovative Medicaid Reform Demonstration
* (Health care) Money for disabled goes unspent, state leaders say
* (Health care) Agency sat on $151 million

Georgia
(Employment) SunTrust Commemorates Disability Mentoring Day

Illinois
* (Health care) State borrowing a billion to cover Medicare bills
* (Laws) Accomodate the handicapped or face the fine

Nebraska
(Health care) Changing Medicaid system could limit health care

Louisiana
(Hurricane Rita / Housing) Residents Moving Out

Ohio
* (Children) Hospital selects new foster home for Aiden Stein
* (Community living) State postpones pay cut for self-employed nurses
(Health care) Ohio to lose money on prescription drug program, official says

Texas
* (Hurricane Rita / Housing) Built with love, new home suits this special family to a T
* (Hurricane Rita / Institutions - nursing homes) Bus driver a witness in grand jury inquiry
* (Hurricane Rita) Common sense and bureaucracy rarely meet

Vermont
(Health care) Dubie tries to explain state drug plan

Washington
* (Hurricane Katrina) Katrina prompts caregivers to review their plans

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