When my son was born with Down Syndrome, I became involved in disability advocacy.
Mr. Albin cites nothing connecting the increase in disability recipients and the recession because the claim is simply untrue.
The London Marathon is on BBC One early on Sunday morning and is going beyond what it did before in disability sport.
Personally, I get very tired of hearing somebody has a fix for Social security and now I can add in disability.
The Paralympics is also providing an inspiration for participation in disability sport.
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Media interest in disability sport also remains something of a problem.
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Hannah Cockroft, who won the T34 100m and 200m at the Paralympics, believes athletes like her had inspired more people to take an interest in disability sport.
If you add their increase to the dramatically increased presence of women in the workforce, and the increase in the retirement age, it accounts for almost all the increase in disability claims.
Congressmen have fought bitterly over whether to extend unemployment benefits, with Republicans arguing that it would blunt incentives to work, yet no one has paid attention to the costly rise in disability rolls.
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The White House event followed the Senate's vote by unanimous consent on legislation that seeks to end inconsistencies in disability pay by providing for a special review of cases in which service members received low ratings of their level of disability.
The agency has already launched a review to address wide discrepancies in how disability benefits are awarded, prompted in part by the Journal's reporting on the topic throughout the year.
These drugs may help in childhood learning disability, in the memory loss with ageing and even in recovery from brain damage.
And many doubt that the quadrupling of spending on disability in the last 20 years reflects a quadrupling in the scale of disability.
Baroness Hollins, a crossbench peer and consultant psychiatrist in learning disability, described the group as among the "most disadvantaged and marginalised individuals in society".
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In business we know, including disability in the workforce is good for the bottom line, not just the heart.
The next closest disability assessment centre is 14 miles away in Balham, said disability campaigners.
The Paralympic relay involves four flames being lit in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast which are united in the Paralympic Torch at the national centre for disability sport in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire.
We need customers, other employers to start recognizing the value of including disability in the workplace.
So many people are affected by disability in their lives in one way or another.
The true cost of asbestos may be paid in death and disability several decades from now.
Get out and preach the gospel of the benefits of including disability in the workplace.
Give 12 educational seminars to companies about the benefits of disability in the work place.
Depression is already the second greatest cause of disability in the world.
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"This year's Paralympic games have been a real game changer in perceptions of disability and attitudes towards disability, " he said.
There must be an investment by companies to educate their teams on the value of including disability in the work place.
There are currently hundreds of people with a learning disability in assessment and treatment units like Winterbourne View, the charities said.
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Next week, I will be sharing the success of including disability in the workplace from an employer perspective, so keep following me!
Suffering from an undiagnosed learning disability in the 1950s, Goodfellow was stuck in the "subnormal" class in his village school in Cambridgeshire.
Sanlam, a life assurer, suggests that firms with comprehensive health policies may also avoid sharp rises in life, disability and medical insurance premiums.
Strokes are the largest single cause of severe disability in England and Wales, with more than 250, 000 people being affected at any one time.
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