Despite a decline in the overall unemployment rate, Delawareans with disabilities are disproportionately unemployed. CDS Community Advisory Council members Kristin Harvey and Emmanuel Jenkins, faculty in CDS’s Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities program are among those working for pay equity and improved working conditions.
When Maggie Goonan’s mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she experienced the stigma surrounding a diagnosis of dementia. Now, she is an advocate for awareness and early diagnosis.
UD’s Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic uses multiple therapies to improve speech in stroke survivors with aphasia. Participants in a variety of the clinic’s programs have made great strides in regaining their language abilities.
Two recent publications provide a wealth of data about disability in the United States. The 2021 annual reports from the University of New Hampshire Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Disability Statistics reveal some effects of the pandemic, but largely indicate little in the way of change for the disability community.
New guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics urge pediatricians to adopt a balanced approach to assisting families of children with Down syndrome.
