Inclusion Desk

In this segment of StoryCorps Rochester, Tabitha Jacques talks to her friend and colleague, Susan Murad, about deaf art and culture, the De'VIA movement, and how the hearing community can be better advocates and allies to the deaf community. She speaks through her interpreter, Kira Avery.

The lack of home care aides is a crisis for the people and families who depend on them. With support from the Solutions Journalism Network, WXXI worked with other regional news partners to cover possible solutions to the problem.

New York state agencies are working to integrate accessible trail inclusive access while maintaining the sustainability and natural environment of state lands.

On Thursday, AutismUp, the Golisano Autism Center and Homesteads for Hope held a news conference in support of two pieces of state legislation that would expand housing programs for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities.

Some people with disabilities need help around the clock and agencies can provide that in residential home settings. But across the state, agencies are struggling to hire and keep staff.WXXI’s April Franklin has more on how one local agency is trying a new approach to retain employees by helping them with problems that occur outside of work, too.

Parents and advocates say the recently adopted New York state budget does not deliver on early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities.

The movie CODA was a big winner in Sunday night’s Academy Awards, and the film and the recognition it received is especially important to Rochester’s large Deaf community.

The funding will help to formalize and expand the institute’s national hub of innovation for deaf and hard-of-hearing biomedical scientists and health care professionals.

The decree requires the district to demonstrate improvement in providing timely services, improving graduation rates, and increasing parental involvement of students with disabilities.

Flip Rivera has been fighting through a complicated and arduous process to be able to live independently since 2010. He spent tens of thousands of dollars to have his new house renovated to be more accessible.However, because of a shortage of home care aides, he is still living as a long-term resident at Monroe Community Hospital.