Watertown Commission on Disability

Monthly archive for August, 2007

America has lost a lion …

Frank G. Bowe —  long-time disability (including special education and technology) rights leader, activist, teacher (Hofstra University), and national/ international policy advisor  —  passed away on August 21. 
Learn more about Professor Bowe’s accomplishments and important contributions to creating an accessible society and world in this JFA press release.

Community Access Monitor Training - Massachusetts Office on Disability (MOD)

Good and important stuff …. what we’re all about! 
From Carolyn Thompson of the Cambridge Commission on Disability:

If you have not done this excellent two-day training offered by Mass. Office on Disability, here is your chance. Topics include a brief overview of the ADA and the Disability Rights movement, physical access in the built environment, Mass. [...]

What is Acceptable?

It struck me one day when someone mentioned that I was wheelchair bound. It sounded as though I had chains and padlocks wrapped around me. Then I thought about how Hanibal Lector was straitjacketed and strapped onto a two wheel device in the movie ‘Silence of the Lambs’.
I politely corrected the person and said that [...]

The ADA Restoration Act of 2007

The late and legendary Speaker of the House in Congress  Tip O’Neil (who represented Watertown for many years) often said, “All politics are local”.... on this website I’ve been occasionally reversing that concept to bring the wider state/national and even global sphere of disability and access issues to the local level.
In my previous post you’ll find updates on the status of the [...]

The ADA @ 17 from the NCD

The NCD is my go-to website for the basics on disability law/policy in the United States.  
July 26, 2007
WASHINGTON—
The National Council on Disability (NCD) today released two reports on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that show that ADA implementation is not only possible and practicable, it is also good for business.
The first, The Impact of the [...]