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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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The Google for People with Spinal Cord Injury
April 5, 2017 / 
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“Google it” has nowadays become the go-to response to questions we actually don’t know how to answer. But imagine you or someone you love, have just become paralyzed, due to an injury or a disease and you find yourself learning how to use a wheelchair, or wondering whether you could still be a parent. Google ...
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Foundation Honors Actress Marlee Matlin with Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion
February 22, 2017 / 0 Comments
Foundation Honors Actress Marlee Matlin with Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion In 1987, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Marlee Matlin the Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her heralding performance in the film Children of a Lesser God, symbolizing an unprecedented selection, as it was and ...
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The Ruderman TV Challenge
February 16, 2017 / 0 Comments
The Ruderman TV Challenge was designed to continue our work in Hollywood and advocate for greater inclusion of performers with disabilities. At a time when the discussion around the need for greater diversity in Hollywood is garnering great attention, disability is still being left out. But disability is a fundamental part of the human experience and needs ...
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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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Marathon to Develop Technoligcal Solutions for People with Disabilities
January 26, 2017 / 0 Comments
I first wrote about Tikkun Olam Makers—better known as TOM—in May of last year, and titled it “How to Change the World.” Admittedly a lofty title, but not an inaccurate one. TOM is best known for organizing makeathons. As the name suggest, these are marathons of making where tinkerers and makers from all across the ...
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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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What to Wear?—A Very Complicated Question If You Have a Disability
May 26, 2017 /
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