What Is Down Syndrome? You cannot “catch” Down syndrome; everyone who has Down syndrome was born with it and will always have it. Over 400,000 people in the U.S. have Down syndrome. Learn more here.
October is National Down Syndrome Awareness Month!
October 3, 2015 by
Ranking Names Most Livable Cities For People With Disabilities
October 3, 2015 by
A new ranking crunches the numbers to assess the nation’s best and worst cities for those with disabilities. The analysis from the consumer finance website WalletHub compares the country’s 150 most populated cities using 21 different metrics designed to evaluate cost of living, quality of life and access to health care.
Overland Park, Kan. comes in at number one on the list followed by Scottsdale and Peoria, Ariz., Tampa and St. Petersburg, Fla. Read more.
Innovative Fair Oaks School Opens Doors to Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum
October 3, 2015 by
The Meristem Center for Transformative Learning help adults with developmental disabilities prepare for employment. The program, designed for people age 18 to 28, opened Tuesday with an eight-student pilot class. Initial class will focus on agriculture, woodwork, other hands-on skills. Read more.
Former Sonoma DC Psych Tech Sentenced In Sex Abuse Case
October 3, 2015 by
SANTA ROSA, Calif. –A former psychiatric technician has been sentenced to seven years in prison for having unlawful sexual contact with a disabled resident at the Sonoma Developmental Center.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports Judge Jamie Thistlethwaite sentenced 63-year-old Rex Bradford Salyer to slightly more than half of the 12 years possible, noting his age, lack of criminal record and readiness to take responsibility. Read more.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports Judge Jamie Thistlethwaite sentenced 63-year-old Rex Bradford Salyer to slightly more than half of the 12 years possible, noting his age, lack of criminal record and readiness to take responsibility. Read more.
Kaiser Permanente Misleads Public
September 27, 2015 by
This is the Opinion of NUHW
Kaiser Permanente, in an effort to deflect mounting criticism of its mental health care services from patients and their families, state regulators, and NUHW-represented Kaiser mental health clinicians, claimed in a press release earlier this week to have hired hundreds of additional therapists.
Kaiser’s misleading figures fail to account for staff attrition Kaiser has suffered due to the HMO’s patient-care failures, violations of state law, and declining working conditions. Read more.
Taking Blood Pressure Drugs at Night Wards Off Diabetes
September 27, 2015 by
Sometimes, disease-prevention really is this simple: Adults with high blood pressure who take all of their hypertension medications before they go to bed, rather than in the morning, are less likely to develop Type 2 diabetes, new research has found. Read more.
Autism Requires Understanding and Solutions, Not Lawsuits
September 27, 2015 by
On Tuesday, a dismayed Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Maureen Folan had stern words for the parties and lawyers in the Sunnyvale lawsuit against a boy with autism and his parents. Unhappy with the heavily litigious way the case was proceeding, she asked the parties to be “solutions-oriented” and engage in a court-supervised settlement conference. She expressed shock that these “bright people” could not solve this neighborhood conflict. Read more.
