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2005 - WID's programs to enhance employment, asset building, and access to healthcare

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2007-04-29 WID Website AB1113 Template Support Letter.doc

 

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Download Impact! Spring/Summer 2004

Newsletter of the World Institute on Disability (WID), Volume 9, Number 2, Spring/Summer 2004

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Newsletter of the World Institute on Disability (WID), Volume 9, Number 3, Fall/Winter 2004

Download Guia sobre violencia y mujer con discapacidad (Guide on Violence and Disabled Women)

This book highlights practical considerations and recommendations helpful to both disabled women as well as to professionals of this field, when facing violent situations. Spanish language.

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This report is a general view of the often overlooked problem of violence that affects an important number of disabled women. Spanish language.

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This book is a contribution to the current social debate on the development of the "Independent Living Movement." It also includes guidelines for setting up Independent Living Centers. Spanish language.

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This report summarizes a literature review on use of telecommunications by people with cognitive disabilities.

Download The Internet: An Inclusive Magnet for Teaching All Students (PDF format)

This 21-page handbook promotes access to the Internet in K-12 schools for students with disabilities, students with a variety of learning styles and those who do not speak English as their first language. The handbook provides practical tips, general access guidelines, resource listings and success stories of teachers from across the U.S. who use the Internet in their classrooms.

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Highlights of WID's 2006 Programs

Highlights of WID's 2006 Programs

Testimony on AB 1113

California Work Incentives Initiative's Bryon MacDonald testifies on AB 1113 to the Health Committee.

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Disability Benefits Circle Syndrome

Disability Benefits 101 Information Services has met some of the needs for consumers, benefits planners, and county services staff. We provide a single place to navigate the complex nature of the interaction between public and private disability benefits, health care choices, employment situations and asset planning using plain language explanations and innovative benefits planning calculators.

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This policy analysis is a collection of discussions, topical areas and recommendations that seek a deeper inquiry into what Americans with disabilities expect of social insurance roles in the 21st Century, with focus on health care coverage and employment. The paper calls for an expanded national dialogue to transform Social Security, Medicare and disability tax policies, as needed to increase employment rates of people with disabilities.

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2005 - WID's programs to enhance employment, asset building, and access to healthcare

New Tools and New Rules 2007

A text document of the New Tools and New Rules 2007 article on WID.org

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Benefits Planning Sessions

Disability Benefits tools provide service providers and consumers with accurate planning and explanation of programs through public trainings and online benefits calculators. Learning power is provided in both Spanish and English to increase cultural competency of all materials on the DB 101 website.

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This volume presents the results of a five-year international investigation into disability and governance. It examines three interrelated topics: the impact of disabled individuals who have been elected or appointed to high governmental office; the scope, structure and impact of national disability policy bodies; and the increasing accessibility of the machinery of democracy, especially elections and voting. “Change from Within” is the first international report on this significant topic.

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This volume presents the results of a five-year international investigation into disability and governance. It examines three interrelated topics: the impact of disabled individuals who have been elected or appointed to high governmental office; the scope, structure and impact of national disability policy bodies; and the increasing accessibility of the machinery of democracy, especially elections and voting. “Change from Within” is the first international report on this significant topic.

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