APP.COM - Southern student to attend graduation | Asbury Park Press Online

"One day after Southern Regional High School student Mitch Sieling testified before state senators that he was banned from attending his school's graduation next month, school officials had a change of heart."

Seems only fair.....

Mullings An American Cyber Column By Rich Galen

"Whether or not you believe the Social Security system was ever designed to be a disability payment mechanism is not the issue. It is, and Joe Banker was playing by the rules.

Or so he thought. Joe had been working a part time job with a software company until the company got bought out and he became one of the 'synergies' - Wall Street Speak for being laid-off."

ScienceDaily: Play With Your Head: Student Unlocks Power Of Music For People With Disabilities

"The device provides a much-needed outlet for creative expression for people with extremely limited mobility, particularly individuals with severe cerebral palsy (CP) – a neurological disorder that permanently affects body movement and muscle coordination and has the capacity to render people unable to speak or move. It also has therapeutic benefits, according to Van Dusen."

Clearly, Frankly, Unabashedly Disabled

By MIREYA NAVARRO
The public image of people with disabilities has often hinged on the heroic or the tragic. But Mr. Blue, 28, represents the broader portrait of disability now infusing television and film. This new, sometimes confrontational stance reflects the higher expectations among many members of the disabled population that they be treated as people who happen to have a disability, rather than as people defined by disability.