Category Archives: disability

(RED) workshop add energy and fun into learning

Rapid Enterprise Development (RED) workshop add energy and fun into learning about business planning

14 October 2011

 


Keith Bates, Head of Employment at the Foundation for People with learning Disabilities:

“Last week we ran a lively two day Rapid Enterprise Development (RED) workshop in the South West as part of our In Business Project. The workshops are designed to add energy and fun into learning about business planning and offers people with a disability and those that support them the chance to really develop their business ideas.

People with disabilities are fighting the cuts

Carers campaign against changes to disability support services

2:00pm Friday 14th October 2011

 

PEOPLE with disabilities in Barnet have formed a group to fight recent changes to the council’s support services which mean they have to pay more for their essential care. Barnet Council introduced the Fairer Contributions policy in April this year.

Smartphone app used for disability benefits in Washington

Smartphone app offers help for people seeking disability benefits

By Aaron Leitko, Published: October 10

Technology: A helping hand, in your hand “Disability Answers” smartphone app

In trying times it’s nice to know there’s a place to turn for answers: your smartphone. The Advocator Group, an organization that helps Americans obtain disability benefits, has released a new smartphone app, “Disability Answers,” to help people with debilitating health conditions and their families handle the bureaucratic minefield surrounding Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare eligibility.