Connecticut’s disabled veterans are being offered free lifetime passes to the state’s parks, forests and recreation system, authorities say. For more on this story, visit: CT’s disabled vets get free open space access | Hartford Business. … Continue reading
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Special Olympics Connecticut will hold its annual Summer Games, presented by United Technologies Corporation, Friday through Sunday, June 8, 9 and 10 at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, and Hamden Hall, Hamden. More than 2,300 athletes and partners from … Continue reading
Getting stamps in Norwich can be a laboring process for many people with disabilities. The town’s main post office is more than one hundred years old and without a ramp for handicapped people to use. Rita Waddell relies on bus … Continue reading
West Haven resident Robert J. Alling received an Individual Achievement Award from the Center for Disability Rights during the organization’s Quarterly Meeting of the Membership Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. CDR Executive Director Marc Anthony Gallucci recalls the day Robert dropped … Continue reading
BETHANY – Applications for tax credits for homeowners over 65 years of age and those totally disabled will be taken at the Assessor’s office between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. beginning Feb. 1 to May 15. The Elderly Homeowners Program … Continue reading
A study released Thursday suggests that increases in standardized test scores are, to some degree, dependent on the exclusion of disabled students from those tests. Connecticut Voices for Children, an advocacy and educational public policy think-tank, released a study concluding … Continue reading
Since awareness of time-out rooms in public schools came to light to many earlier this month, numerous child and education advocacy groups long against their use came to the forefront decrying and calling for an end to their use. While … Continue reading
CCEH News New Community Impact Staff on the Ground in New Haven, Bridgeport and Norwalk.CCEH welcomes Sarah Petela and Chelsea Ross to our team… Learn more about our new team members here. Internships at the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness. … Continue reading
HARTFORD, Conn.— Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s Thanksgiving message to residents of Connecticut on Wednesday was not appreciated by some members of the disabled community who said they’re offended by the wording, which describes them as “residents afflicted with handicaps” who … Continue reading
In Connecticut, Ken Elkins (Audubon Center at Bent on the River) will develop a replicable training program called “Bird Tales,” a low-cost therapeutic program that brings the healing power of the natural world to people living with dementia. Working with … Continue reading