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Orders are being made to schools to allow disabled students to participate in sports programs. Minimal changes may be made to allow these students to participate.

Obesity leads to patients not being able to move around like someone of normal size. There are underlying issues that may cause the obesity. Disability isn't just for being obese.

Disabled students still facing discrimination trying to apply for jobs. This student in California was discriminated against for his disability.

Leslie Elder, a woman fighting to receive medicaid & disability not being able to work due to her condition, could be alive today if she had received healthcare benefits. She would have been covered for pre-exsisting condition insurance plan, but like many others, thought that it didn't go into effect until 2014.

The World Health Organization is taking on a new project called Quality Rights. The projects goal is to improve the health services given to the mentally ill. Abuse, violence, and mistreatment has increased in many mental heath facilities. These facilities also do not give employees the amount of training they need in order to care for the ill.

This article talks about people not having jobs. This project allows people with disabilities to be able to join the work force again.

Deinstitutionalization is the process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with less isolated community mental health services for those diagnosed with mental disorder or developmental disability. This site discusses the consequences of deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill and talks about the government's desire to reduce cost and spending on hospitalisation making the promote deinstitutionalisation.

Safe Kids USA a nonprofit organization solely dedicated to eliminating preventable childhood injuries, the leading cause of death and disability to children ages 1 to 14. Safe Kids USA has 600 grassroots coalitions across the United States dedicated to educating families and implementing programs on child passenger safety.