Tag Archives: Disability Rights

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, May 16th, 2023. Later in the program, we have Disabulletin – where we cover the top stories impacting the disability community across the country and around the world – hosted by Abe Shapiro. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have Lil Bub’s Lil Show …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, April 25th, 2023. Later in the program, we have Disabulletin – where we cover the top stories impacting the disability community across the country and around the world – hosted by Abe Shapiro. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have Lil Bub’s Lil Show …

Good evening, I’m Abe Shapiro and this is Part IV of Disabulletin’s docuseries Lawyers Schools And Access: The History of Special Education in the United States. Tonight’s installment covers the first parent groups of the United States, who mobilized on behalf of their children in Ohio and Washington respectively. When we left off we were discussing the case of  Golman …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, March 29th, 2023. Later in the program, we have Disabulletin – where we cover the top stories impacting the disability community across the country and around the world – hosted by Abe Shapiro. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Better Beware – your weekly consumer …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, March 21st, 2023. Later in the program, The Bloomington Board of Public Works recently turned down an application by the IU Chapter of the conservative group Turning Point USA for an “All Lives Matter” mural on Kirkwood. More in today’s local headlines. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, March 7th, 2023. In today’s feature report, WFHB Correspondent Ruth Flegmann reported on a protest and march criticizing Indiana University’s response to recent acts of discrimination. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we have Disabulletin – where we cover the top stories impacting the disability …

Good evening, I’m Abe Shapiro and this is a special edition of Disabulletin. Tonight, we continue our report: Lawyers, Schools, and Access: A History of Special Education in the United States as part of our coverage of the recent Supreme Court Special Education Case Perez V Sturgis School District, which will be decided by the end of the court’s term …

Good evening, I’m Abe Shapiro and this is Disabulletin, where we cover the top stories impacting the disability community across the country and around the world. Tonight, we begin the first leg of an adventure covering the history of Special Education Law in the United States. This is the next chapter in Disabulletin’s continuing coverage of the recent Supreme Court …

Good evening, I’m Abe Shapiro and this is Disabulletin, where we cover the top stories impacting the disability community across the country and around the world. Two weeks ago, Disabulletin covered the challenges facing New Jersey School Districts as they work to determine what a post-pandemic classroom looks like for students with disabilities while emphasizing mental health and school safety. …

The Supreme Court met today to hear a case regarding a deaf student Miguel Luna Perez of Sturgis Michigan, who was denied access to a professional sign language interpreter and whose parents were falsely told over the course of 12 years that their son was on his way to graduation, only to receive a certificate of completion instead of a …