Empowerment Cafe Weekly Bulletin 20-26 June 2015
AUSTRALIA: Tighter Disability Support Pension Rules are Hurting, Say Welfare Groups
WORLD: Early Intervention for Toddlers with Autism Improves Long-Term Outcomes
www.autismspeaks.org
CHINA: Persons with Disabilities Have Difficulty Finding Jobs in China
www.globalaccessibilitynews.com
TONGA: Queen Opens New Social Protection and Disability Division
www.mic.gov.to
CAMBODIA: Meet Sok, A Teacher with Disability
WORLD: This Inspiring Lawyer with Autism Will Practice Special Education Law
www.autismspeaks.org/news
CAMBODIA: Cycling for Cambodians with Disabilities
MYANMAR: Disabled Voters to Get Assistance in Upcoming Election
WORLD: Teen Completes 57-Mile Walk Carrying Brother on Back
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INDIA: We Aim to Help Those with Print Disabilities
www.sakaaltimes.com/NewsDetails
SINGAPORE: NUS Students Go on Desert Trek to Help the Disabled
www.news.asiaone.com/news/singapore
WORLD: Paving the Way for Inclusion
www.faithhopeloveautism.blogspot.com
CAMBODIA: Cambodia's Mother of Disabled Children (VIDEO)
PHILIPPINES: Wheelchair of Love for Disabled Elderly
www.philstar.com/entertainment
WORLD: To the Family Members Who Exclude a Loved One with Autism
www.themighty.com
WORLD: Being a Co-Worker to Someone with Learning Disabilities Taught Me Lessons We Should All Learn
NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand a World Leader on Disability Issues
AUSTRALIA: Social Services Minister Scott Morrison Confronted by Disability Support Protester (VIDEO)
NEW ZEALAND: Disabled Maori More Disadvantaged - Survey
WORLD: 10 Useful Disability Blogs Recommended by Sensory Guru
CAMBODIA: Putting Disability on the Agenda
INDIA: Parents Want to Euthanize Their Six Disabled Children
PAKISTAN: Karachi Disabled Continue to Plead for Jobs Despite Heatwave Horrors
CHINA: “Disability is Still Very Invisible in China Today”
SINGAPORE: Are We Over-Compensating the Needs of the Physically Disabled? (BLOG)
MYANMAR: Shwe Min Tha Foundation to Launch Disability Project
WORLD: Disability Protesters Blocked from Commons Chamber
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THAILAND: Hearing Loss in Thailand
VIETNAM: Women with Disabilities Empowered
JAPAN: Intellectually Disabled Woman Seeks Compensation for Forced Sterilization Under Eugenics Law in 1960s
MALAYSIA: Poor, Disabled in Sarawak to Get More Welfare Aid Next Year
SRI LANKA: Poson 2015 for Disabled Devotees Too
INDIA: Reconsider Admission of Physically Disabled Student
CAMBODIA: David Beckham Visits Vulnerable Children
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