INCLUSION DAILY EXPRESS -- Below The Fold: December 16, 2005

Inclusion Daily Express Logo
International Disability Rights News Service
Click here for today's headlines

Have the latest disability rights news delivered to your email Inbox every week day.
Subscribe to Inclusion Daily Express today!

BELOW THE FOLD

Friday, December 16, 2005
Today's list includes 25 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.
Scroll down or click here to jump to:
Australia
Norway
Peru
United Kingdom
United States

AUSTRALIA
* (Crime) Accused cell basher of disabled prisoner gets third trial
* (Criminal justice system) Patricia Jenkings argues John Howard should give a personal apology to Vivian Alvarez Solon

NORWAY
* (Institutions / Abuse) Publication of preliminary observations by Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee

PERU
(Children) Mermaid baby recovering after surgery

UNITED KINGDOM
* (Arts) Dyslexic author wins book prize
* (Employment) Helping people with disabilities into work
* (Technology / Communication) Deaf get voicemail messages in text
England
(Families / Children) Story of 'supermum' hits screens
(Safety) Wheelchair user dies in collision

Click here for top of this page

UNITED STATES
* (Advocacy) JFA: AAPD Action Alert on Budget Reconciliation Final Report
* (Employment) New guidance on ADA association rule

Florida
(Voting / Accessibility) Can vote machine be hacked?

Louisiana
(Hurricanes / Institutions - nursing homes) The life stories behind the storm victims -- Maxine Eckert Frischhertz died at St. Rita's nursing home

Maine
* (Institutions) Housing agency for mentally retarded investigated

Minnesota
(Crime) Man who raped handicapped St. Paul woman receives sentence of almost 18 years

Mississippi
(Health care) Miss. limit on prescriptions brings suit

Nebraska
* (Employment / Laws) Dahlgren: No one should be kept from farming

New Jersey
(Education - not specific to disabilities / Restraints) Were pupils taped to chairs?

Ohio
(Criminal justice system) Brother's killer insane, not guilty

Pennsylvania
* (Housing) Norco to abide by court’s order OK’ing group home

Texas
* (Death penalty) 5th Circuit rejects the late appeal by inmate with low IQ

Virginia
(Institutions) For CVTC, good news on a couple of fronts

West Virginia
(Community living) Control Costs Of New Program -- Olmstead plan
(Health care) Retirees fearing loss of benefits

Wisconsin
(Children) Assembly passes autism scholarship program

Click here for top of this page

Please respect the copyright guidelines for these news sources. If you share any of this news and information with others, please tell them you learned about it from Inclusion Daily Express:
http://www.InclusionDaily.com.

Have the latest disability rights news delivered to your email Inbox every week day.
Subscribe to Inclusion Daily Express today!

Get your news here!