INCLUSION DAILY EXPRESS -- Below The Fold: October 27, 2005

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BELOW THE FOLD

Thursday, October 27, 2005
Today's list includes 41 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 & Wilma
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
United Kingdom
United States

HURRICANES KATRINA, RITA & WILMA
Congress sends storm relief bill to nation's poor
Driver to help federal prosecutors in probe of bus fire
Beaumont debates aid program
Nursing home patients weather storm
Revisiting the city that care forgot

AUSTRALIA
* (Criminal justice system / Laws) 222 people may have been held illegally
* (Criminal justice system / Laws) Australians wrongfully held: watchdog

CANADA
New Brunswick
* (Children) Autistic N.B. boy moved from youth jail to Maine treatment centre

NEW ZEALAND
* (Advocacy) Call to end stigma and isolation
(Employment) 83,000 fewer New Zealanders on benefits

UNITED KINGDOM
(Sports) BBC given top Paralympic honour
(Sports) GB launch World Championship bid -- Wheelchair Basketball
England
* (Abuse) Mother speaks of care 'neglect'
* (Employment) Council in disabled support award
* (Families) Thomas is an inspiration
(Technology) Speaker allows deaf to feel music
Wales
(Education / Restraints) Discipline 'not an issue'

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UNITED STATES
* (Advocacy / Community living) Money Follows the Person, Almost a Reality
* (Health care) Bazelon Center: Choosing the Right Medicare Drug Plan
(Health care / Institutions - nursing homes) Bush Medicaid Proposal Criticized
(Health care) GOP plan would OK Medicaid price hike
* (Hurricane Katrina) Congress sends storm relief bill to nation's poor

Alabama
* (Employment) Local businesses receive honor

Colorado
(Voting / Accessibility) Election board is criticized

Florida
* (Crime) State faces suit in boy's alleged rape
* (Hurricane Wilma / Institutions - nursing homes) Nursing home patients weather storm

Georgia
* (Accessibility / Housing) Good News re Atl Visitability Ordinance!

Hawaii
* (Communication) Deaf player separated from his interpreter

Illinois
(Families) Conference is for parents of disabled
* (Institutions) LDC construction could begin Nov. 1

Kansas
* (Criminal justice system) Defense attorney moves to get Matthew Limon released from prison

Louisiana
* (Hurricane Katrina) Revisiting the city that care forgot

Massachusetts
* (Contribution) Awards Night honors heroes for the disabled

Michigan
(Health care) Michigan stands to lose big with Medicaid cuts

Montana
(Contribution) Disability Hall of Fame

New Jersey
(Misc) Corzine's stem cell face

New York
* (Education - special / TechnologyKeeping Special Students Connected to the Classroom -- 'Virtual Students'?

Oklahoma
(Families) Mother shares reality of having autistic son

Oregon
(Awareness) Web site has data for Oregon seniors, disabled
(Awareness) Network of Care

South Carolina
(Health care) S.C. Medicaid plan to get national notice

Texas
* (Hurricane Katrina / Institutions - nursing homes) Driver to help federal prosecutors in probe of bus fire
* (Hurricane Katrina / Housing) Beaumont debates aid program

Utah
(Education) State requests 'No Child' flexibility

Virginia
(Employment) October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month

Washington
* (Education) A player far from Fragile

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