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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.
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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.
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Lifetime Assistance, the local organization that helps people with developmental disabilities live with the highest possible level of independence, has…
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A workshop at Braddock Bay Park is intended to help aspiring birders with disabilities learn ways to take part in the pastime.
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Amie Richards is from Massachusetts, and Reese Gieger lives in Atlanta.They have traded a few letters, but recently, they met virtually for the first…
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Two local agencies will work together to help scientists better understand how COVID-19 affects people with intellectual and developmental…
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The nation’s first nature trail specifically designed to address the sensory needs of those with autism spectrum disorder is now open at Letchworth State…
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How can members of law enforcement better interact with people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities? We hear from participants of a recent…
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A wheelchair swing and an accessible merry-go-round are some of the new adaptable features at Basil A. Marella Park in the town of Greece that will allow…
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“In February of 1983, I met this incredible British documentary filmmaker….”These are the opening words of “Swimming to Cambodia,” the best-known work of…