Category Archives: Disability

300 Veterans, Some With PTSD, Are on Death Row: Report – WCBD 2

The defense argued he was suffering from untreated PTSD and that he wasn't in his right mind when he abducted, robbed and fatally shot college student Lauren Burk in 2008. The Alabama jury rejected the prosecution's call …

'Patient No More' show in Berkeley documents a historic disability …

A segment of the sweeping mural at the Ed Roberts Campus, part of the 'Patient No More' exhibition. Photo: Fran Osborne. By Margit Stange. “Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights,” a multi-media …

Colleen Kelly Starkloff Honored With Disability Awareness Award …

Colleen Kelly Starkloff, co-founder and co-director of the Starkloff Disability Institute, is being honored with the Disability Awareness Award from the Missouri Commission on Human Rights, a division of the Missouri …

The News Tribune editorializes: Move legislation to improve mental …

The News Tribune editorializes: Move legislation to improve mental health services … Western State is just a small piece of a larger, national failure to provide adequate mental health services. The symptoms of that failure …

Ann Ramsay wins National Disability Rights Award | CUPE PEI

A life-changing accident in 2009 left PEI school bus driver Ann Ramsay with paralysis of the lower body. Ramsay retrained and went back to work as a receptionist. She also added disability rights activist to her already …