| Collection Spotlight from the National Rehabilitation Information Center |
| Spotlight Focus: A Philosophical Foundation for the Independent Living Movement A thoughtful examination of a growing movement.  |
| NARIC?s Digital Archive: New additions and the next phase! We are incredibly pleased to announce we’ve completed the first phase of our archive plan! In this first phase, we targeted items that had been requested at one time by NIDRR staff or other NARIC patrons. The result is more than 100 items scanned, converted to PDF, and released to the public! Some of the [...]  |
| New Pub: reSearch on Telerehabilitation A quick look at research in telerehabilitation.  |
| Meet This: FCC announced new working group to study closed captioning and video description The Federal Communications Commission announced the establishment of a technical working group to study digital closed captioning and video description issues. The group will focus on issues of accessibility in television programming for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, or have other visual disabilities. The purpose of the working group will be to conduct [...]  |
| New(er) Numbers: Prevalence and Causes of Disability The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly has released a new statistical analysis of the prevalence and most common causes of disability among US adults. Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, the authors report no significant increase in the percentage of adults with a disability (22% in 1999, 21.8% in 2005), but [...]  |
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