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Gov. Laura Kelly proposed putting $23 million toward waivers for people with intellectual and physical disabilities, the first funding raise in years.
The House, meanwhile, allocated around $46 million to add 500 slots to each waiver program and placed language in the budget requiring the Kansas Department on Aging and Disabilities to provide ...
Supported employment was developed in the United States in the 1970s as part of both vocational rehabilitation (VR) services (e.g., NYS Office of Vocational Services, 1978) and the advocacy for long term services and supports (LTSS) for individuals with significant disabilities in competitive job placements in integrated settings (e.g., businesses, offices, manufacturing facilities).
Kansas Department for Aging and Disability reported 5,347 people were on a waitlist for a comprehensive intellectual and developmental disability services, a Medicaid program that provides ...
Its second was Eunice K. Fiorito (1930–1999), a disability rights activist and head of the Mayor's Office for the Handicapped, in New York City. Tall, red-headed, and fiery, she was a visionary leader who understood how the human and civil rights concerns of individuals with any given disability were, at root, similar to those of persons with ...
Disability service providers, many parents, and disabled workers themselves support the workshops and state that eliminating the minimum wage exemption would eliminate those jobs and the choice to work (because many with severe disabilities will never be able to perform at the level of an ordinary worker) and thereby prevent disabled people ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Several groups braved the blizzard conditions to make sure essential employees could make it to work safely through the snow. When snow hits — Midwest Krawlers Off-Road Club ...
In 1978, NCD was created under the original name of the National Council on the Handicapped. It was set up as an advisory body to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by the Comprehensive Services and Disability Amendments Act of 1978 as an amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 780 et seq.).