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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