Join our fourth Twitter chat on August 23 on independent living and employment at 9/8c! Featuring Megan Bomgaars, Born This Way cast member and owner of @Megologcom! Hosted by Lauren Appelbaum and Cara Liebowitz of RespectAbility, this Twitter chat will take a look at ideas explored in Born This Way by the young adults with [click to continue...]
Our first Twitter chat was held on July 26, the season’s premiere. We followed that up with another chat on international travel and dating on August 9. Join us again on August 16 for a chat on living independently and employment and every week at 9/8c leading up each episode! Featuring Megan Bomgaars, Born This Way cast member and [click to continue...]
Our first Twitter chat was held on July 26, the season’s premiere. Join us again on August 9 and every week at 9/8c leading up each episode! Featuring Megan Bomgaars, Born This Way cast member and owner of @Megologcom! Hosted by Lauren Appelbaum and Cara Liebowitz of RespectAbility, this Twitter chat will take a look [click to continue...]
A Special Summit for Campaign Consultants, Hill Staff and Disability Leaders Featuring Gov. Jack Markell and Dave Hoppe America has 56 million people with disabilities. Polls show that the majority of voters either have a disability or a loved one with a disability. Voters with disabilities and their families are up for grabs — and the [click to continue...]
As RespectAbility’s Campaign 2016 and People with Disabilities Summit on Enabling Access and Opportunities for All kicks off, viewers at home can join in on the fun as C-SPAN 2 is airing the entire conference live. The entire conference on democracy and access for people with disabilities will be airing live from 9:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. [click to continue...]
A Special Summit for Campaign Consultants, Hill Staff and Disability Leaders August 8, 2016 Schedule 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Voters with Disabilities and the Issues that Matter: From Employment and Empowerment to Criminal Justice and Beyond – Who are Americans with disabilities, and what do we want? Lauren Appelbaum, Director of Communications, RespectAbility Philip Pauli, [click to continue...]
Rockville, July 26 – In what is being billed as Japan’s worst mass murder since World War II, at least 19 were killed and another 26 seriously injured. The attack occurred at Tsukui Yamayuri En centre, a care center for people with disabilities. Satoshi Uematsu, a former employee at the center, is the prime suspect after [click to continue...]
Featuring Megan Bomgaars, Born This Way cast member and owner of @Megologycom! Hosted by Lauren Appelbaum and Cara Liebowitz of RespectAbility, this Twitter chat will take a look at ideas explored in Born This Way by the young adults with Down syndrome and their parents. Following this chat, join us in live tweeting the first [click to continue...]
Washington, July 25 – This month, A&E’s Born This Way, a show staring people with disabilities, was nominated for three Emmy awards. The show follows seven young adults with Down syndrome as they live, work and love in Los Angeles. Previously it was chosen as one of six honorees for the 2016 Television Academy Honors, an [click to continue...]
Washington, July 20 – As Hollywood executives are looking for the next big ideas for film and television, they are learning that disability is a winning theme. Many people are writing about the fact that disability often is absent from mainstream film and television – both the depiction of and, even when a character has a [click to continue...]
