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With summer around the corner, commercials for all kinds of colorful clothing are popping up on any screen I happen to look at. And every once in a while there will even be a model with a disability showing off some great clothes—an increasing phenomenon I spoke about with model Shaholly Ayers a few months ...
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Inclusion Campaign By People with Disabilities Goes Viral! WATCH.
March 14, 2017 / 
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Even though people with disabilities make up about 20% of the world population, they still are one of the most marginalized groups across the world. They often live in segregated institutions, receive education in segregated classrooms, work in segregated workshops that pay below minimum wage, and often do not even participate in aspects of communal ...
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Shaping a New Generation of Ambassadors for Inclusion
February 9, 2017 / 0 Comments
This piece was written by Gary Alpert, Program Director for Ambassadors for Inclusion. Recently, as I was concluding a Jewish day school visit, I noticed an entire class of 5th grade students giving high-fives to a 1st grader as they passed one another in the hallway. Though I’ve spent more than 30 years as a speaker, educator ...
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How Inclusion Redefined “Upgrades” At One Chabad Center
February 2, 2017 / 0 Comments
February is Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month, a time to raise awareness and support efforts to foster the inclusion of people with disabilities and their families in Jewish communities worldwide. In honor of the mission and those engaged in this process of progress, we want to examine one of the many ways Jewish life can easily be made ...
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The Ruderman White Paper – Self-Driving Cars: The Impact on People with Disabilities
January 16, 2017 / 0 Comments
Our New Study Reveals Self-Driving Cars Could Open 2 Million Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities Introduction Self-driving cars have almost become a staple of everyday conversation. You hear about them on the radio, read about them in the newspapers, and you see them on TV, and not just in sci-fi movies. ...
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Service Dogs: How Man’s Best Friend Became Man’s Best Medicine
January 11, 2017 / 0 Comments
The canine, “man’s best friend.” The close-knit, inter-mammal friendship between humans and dogs has spanned thousands of years, and this resulting expression has solidified itself as a mainstay of lexicon and culture Americana. Even as the idioms of old have lost their usage, this one (surprisingly) is used with greater literary frequency in this century than ever ...
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More Than Just Diagnoses—Giving Parents Realistic Life Outcomes After Prenatal Testing Results
January 3, 2017 / 0 Comments
The year may still feel new to many of us, but to expecting parents it is absolutely the same old by comparison to the newness of their coming baby. What is also relatively new for expecting parents is the availability of prenatal testing. Around 2007, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommended that ...
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New Year’s Resolution: Being More Inclusive
December 27, 2016 / 0 Comments
It’s that time of year again! December 31st is around the corner, which means that about half of us are now thinking about our new year’s resolutions. We’ll be thinking of improving ourselves and improving the world around us and in the spirit of this improvement, here is a resolution that hits both birds with one ...
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Reflecting on Inclusive Design
December 22, 2016 / 0 Comments
Ah, the holiday season is upon us. It’s a time of celebration, but also of reflection and as we reflect over the year, we at the Ruderman Family Foundation wanted to highlight and share one of our favorite messages of this year. Elise Roy explains so perfectly why designing the world with people with disabilities ...
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Mental Illness as a Moral Failing
December 15, 2016 / 0 Comments
On December 5, there was yet another shooting of an unarmed, black, and mentally ill man at the hands of law enforcement, this time in Arkansas. As of the time of this writing, Gary Johnson is hospitalized and is in critical condition. This is sadly not uncommon. It is estimated that anywhere from 25%-50% of ...
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What to Wear?—A Very Complicated Question If You Have a Disability
May 26, 2017 /
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