By D'Arcy Robb
She needs to work on appropriate workplace social skills.""He needs substantial training before paid employmentcan be considered.""It is highly unlikely that she will ever hold a job.""He is unemployable."
All too often, individuals with disabilities find attention focused on...
ADA25 Georgia Plans Atlanta Parade: Save the Date! June 13, 2015 for Atlanta's ADA ParadeGeorgia disability groups plan to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act this year with a parade in Downtown Atlanta on June 13, coinciding with the Society of Disability...
GCDD Welcomes Six New Advisory Council MembersMarcia Singson, Parent AdvocateSingson is the founding president of the Georgia Aspergers Organization and an employment specialist with Project SEARCH.
Brenda Munoz, Parent AdvocateMunoz is a 2014-2015 GaLEND Family Fellow at the Center for...
From the GCDD family to yours, we wish you a very happy new year! We hope that 2015 will be a great year for all of us in the disability community. This year could be the time when Georgia finally takes its place as a leader in meeting the needs of individuals with disabilities and their...
Sukhwa Glick, 26, Atlanta, GA resident, part-time employee and aspiring photographer.
Do any of those labels indicate that I am a person with a disability? No? Well, I am. And I am glad that they do not imply that because my disability isn't who I am, but a part of me. On August 11, 1988 in...
After various events, Basmat Ahmed returned to the place that she called her first home in the United States. She was 18 years old when Ahmed and her family came to Georgia, and began their life in the US at Jubilee Partners in Comer, GA in 2006.
Started in 1980, Jubilee is an on-site ministry...
Mia rides paratransit to work three days a week. The fare is $3.20 each way, in cash, exact change. She can buy a book of 10 tickets for $32. She must give the driver the money and get the tickets at the same time, so this involves some arrangements. Mia lets me know when she has two tickets...
I want to begin this article with a confession: I broke my neck in 1973 at the age of 27. This is the same age that Janice Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison committed suicide. Their suicides have nothing to do with the rest of the article except for the fact that I wanted to getyour...
On July 26, 2015, Americans across the nation will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The landmark legislation, signed into law in 1990 by President George H. W. Bush, was created to acknowledge the rights of people with disabilities to...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the beginning of a new era in civil and human rights. By signing the law on July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson completed what his predecessor, President John F. Kennedy, had started. The act made discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or...
