Empowerment Cafe Weekly Bulletin 21-27 May 2016

 Empowerment Cafe Weekly Bulletin 21-27 May 2016

TAIWAN: Award-Winning Design Student Battles Disability
www.taipeitimes.com


FIJI: IFES Organizes First Pacific Regional Disability Rights Dialogue
www.ifes.org

CAMBODIA: Health Care System Struggles to Cope with Patients with Psychosocial Disabilities
www.channelnewsasia.com

PHILIPPINES: Philippines Marks First Disability-Inclusive Elections
www.asiafoundation.org

AUSTRALIA: Physical, Sexual Abuse 'the Norm' for Victorians with a Disability  
www.theage.com.au

WORLD: This Airport Launched a New Room for Fliers with Autism
www.cntraveler.com

WORLD: 10 Little-Known Facts About Blindness
www.perkins.org

FIJI: Time to Start a Database for Persons with Disabilities, Says Saneem
www.fijisun.com.fj

CHINA: Incentives and Challenges in Hiring Workers with Disabilities
www.chinabusinessreview.com

FIJI: More Help on Way for Our Disabled - CEO
www.fijisun.com

WORLD: Twenty 5-Minute Speech Therapy Activities You Can Do at Home
www.home-speech-home.com

WORLD: How to Correctly Refer to Persons with Disability
www.dailyrecords.us

CAMBODIA: Seeing Means Learning (VIDEO)
www.globalpartnership.org

BANGLADESH: Reaching the Most Vulnerable Through the Disability and Children-at-Risk Project
www.worldbank.org

AUSTRALIA: Meet the Perth Retirees Who Build Wheelchairs for Children with Disabilities 
www.9news.com.au

AFGHANISTAN: Hundreds of Persons with Disability Need Wheelchairs
www.pajhwok.com

WORLD: 'Aid in Dying' Devalues Persons with Disabilities
www.lohud.com

PAKISTAN: Persons with Disabilities from Khyber Seek More Jobs 
www.thenews.com.pk

FIJI: Supervisor of Elections Responds to Disability Bill 
www.fijitimes.com

WORLD: Man with Autism Uses Track & Field to Springboard Life Achievements
www.wxyz.com

WORLD: Exclusion of Girl with Autism from School Trip Sparks Debate in Italy
www.news.xinhuanet.com

AUSTRALIA: Sydney Performers with Disabilities to Open New Show This Week 
www.9news.com.au

LAO PDR: New Software Gives the Blind Access to the Internet
www.nationmultimedia.com

WORLD: ‘Me Before You’ Criticized for Its Portrayal of Disability
www.newsjs.com

WORLD: For Persons with Disabilities, New Technology Can Be Life Changing
www.npr.org

FIJI: Submission Centers on the Disabled as Voters
www.fijitimes.com

AUSTRALIA: Call for Orange Employers to Give Job Seekers with a Disability a Fair Chance of Work
www.centralwesterndaily.com.au

JAPAN: Accommodating Disabilities, But Only Within Reason
www.japantimes.co.jp

SINGAPORE: Focus Less on Grades, More on Accepting Differences
www.channelnewsasia.com

INDIA: Soon, Disability Certificates to Be Valid Across India
www.dailypioneer.com

WORLD: Find Information, Apps That Promote Speech and Language Development 
www.home-speech-home.com

WORLD: This Dad Makes His Home a Mock Restaurant to Help His Son Who Has Autism
www.blog.theautismsite.com

MIDDLE EAST: Second Workshop About Transit Systems of 'Accessible Environments for Persons with Disability' Kicks Off in Dubai
www.dubaicityguide.com

BANGLADESH: Disability Day 2016 Attracts Hundreds of Participants
www.banglamirrornews.com

SINGAPORE: Senior Citizens Coping with Job Transition, Boon or Bane?
www.tremeritus.com

WORLD: Loss of Y Chromosome Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease – Study
www.technology.inquirer.net

AUSTRALIA: A Conversation About Disability Inclusion
www.dfat.gov.au

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