Sentences with phrase «more than a disability»

The Dharma Rescue dogs are showing the world, one person at a time, that they are more than a disability — they are loving, smart and happy dogs who are perfectly capable of enjoying their life.

More than a Disability Certificate or Treatment Plan will be required.

Not exact matches

This credit is designed to assist the more than 500,000 Canadians caring for unwell partners and children with disabilities or severe illnesses.

Through employer plans, employees can access group discounts on life and disability insurance that can make it more affordable than if they'd pursued these options on their own.

Claims for Social Security Disability Insurance — which pays out $ 143 billion each year to more than 11 million Americans unable to work because of a serious illness or impairment — have been ticking upward.

To qualify for disability benefits, an applicant can't be engaging in «substantial gainful activity,» which in 2016 the Social Security Administration considers to be earning more than $ 1,130 per month.

The money is spread across 29 programs working on disability technologies — the average amount they'll each receive is $ 750,000, with six of the grant winners getting more than $ 1 million, Wired reports.

How the Liberals are navigating the two sides in the debate is laid out in more than 150 pages of documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the access to information law that outline how the issue is complicated by existing human rights decisions, the requirement to accommodate workers whose addictions constitute a disability, workers» privacy rights and actually proving impairment, particularly from cannabis.

It reports $ 110 million of net income on $ 3 billion in revenue for the nine months ending Nov. 2, 2013, compared to $ 95 million in net income on $ 2.88 billion in revenue for the year - earlier period. www.michaels.com National Mentor Holdings, a Boston - based provider of home and community - based health services to children and adults with disabilities, is preparing to file for an IPO that could value the company at more than $ 1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The COLA also affects benefits for about 4 million disabled veterans, 2.5 million federal retirees and their survivors, and more than 8 million people who get Supplemental Security Income, the disability program for the poor.

«We spend more than virtually any other country on public investments and job training and skills development, and yet we have unacceptably high levels of unemployment amongst young Canadians, aboriginal Canadians, new immigrants, and persons with disabilities,» he said.

In addition, mental health challenges make up nearly a third of all disability claims in Canada, costing our economy more than $ 50 billion annually.

Qualified Roth IRA distributions are tax - free provided a Roth account has been open for more than five years and the owner is at least age 59 1/2, or as a result of their death, disability, or using the first - time homebuyer exception.

2015.01.20 Canadian workers not prepared to deal with financial impact of disabilities More than half of Canadians believe they would experience financial difficulty if their pay was delayed by even one week...

If you earn more than a certain level, known as the Social Security disability threshold, you're considered to be participating in a substantial gainful activity.

As CEO of MyVoice, Alexander took software developed at the University of Toronto for people with speech disabilities into more than 30 countries and was featured by Discovery Channel, Engadget, Fast Company, BNN, CBC, and CTV.

There are many more individuals who have more disabling mental disorders than my disability.

They not only welcomed me, and treated me like a valuable person right from the start, but they got me through two of the hardest years of my life, when I had to leave the job I had to take 10 and a half weeks post op from my second open heart surgery in less than a year, (couldn't get disability) and try one more time to get SSDI.

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), «Without treatment the consequences of mental illness for the individual and society are staggering: unnecessary disability, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, inappropriate incarceration, suicide and wasted lives; The economic cost of untreated mental illness is more than 100 billion dollars each year in the United States.»

The characteristics are, but are not limited to... Keeping more than 1 week's worth of food in your household, owning any type of gun or ammunition, paying in cash, physical disablements and disabilities, disagreement with government policies, opposition of 1 world government, opposition of the UN and agenda 21, opposition of the Federal reserve, living off the grid, being a prepper for disaster situations, growing your own food supply, etc...

It was much more about individual disabilities than about social justice.

There are over thirteen million elderly citizens in Ukraine and more than eight million people with disabilities.

27Tuesday morning will see students with and without intellectual disabilities be more than just students who attend...

27Tuesday morning will see students with and without intellectual disabilities be more than just students who attend the same school ««they will become teammates.

• While fathers of children with disabilities are more likely than mothers to rely on their partners for support, they may feel they are giving more support to their partners than they are receiving from them (Carpenter, 2002).

It's true that more men are at home caring for the kids than ever before — there are about 2 million stay - at - home dads — but, and this is a big but, the largest number of stay - at - home fathers, 35 percent, are at home because of illness or disability, according to the Pew Research Center, not by choice, versus 73 percent of stay - at - home mothers, who either are choosing to be at home (presumably with the blessing of their partner) or who have had to opt out for any number of reasons (the cost of child care perhaps).

This is extremely important because during this assessment other possible causes for your child's difficulties at school other than or in addition to ADHD may be discovered, such as a learning disability, delay in language development, and anxiety issue, and more.

Some of these conditions are «incompatible with life,» meaning the baby can't survive more than a few days or (in rare cases) a few years without severe disabilities.

The future holds more options for students with disabilities than ever before.

BOUNDLESS: Parkways Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Chicago Park District, has raised more than half the $ 675,000 it is seeking to build the district's first Boundless Playground, a spot where children with and without disabilities can play together.

Also babies with significant disabilities are more likely to be formula fed, whether because they can't nurse efficiently (heart defects, cleft lip / palate), need higher calorie nutrition than breast milk, have allergies or milk protein intolerances that require specialized formula, or need to be tube fed.

It is the largest cause of disability among Americans, causing more than $ 100 billion in lost earnings every year to American citizens.

Children and adolescents with disabilities are more likely to be inactive than those without disabilities.

According to the report, which contains data that school districts are now required to submit to the Department of Public Instruction, more than one in every five uses of corporal punishment in North Carolina was applied to a student with disabilities during the 2010 - 2011 school year.

Special Olympics — a sports program devoted to people with intellectual disabilities — offers more than 32 options for individual and team sports.

«Siblings of children with disability were more likely than siblings residing with typically developing children to have problems with interpersonal relationships, psychopathological functioning, functioning at school, and use of leisure time,» according to a 2013 study.

LINCOLN, MA — The Massachusetts Land Conservation Conference, convened annually by the Massachusetts Land Trust Coalition and taking place Saturday, March 22, at Worcester Technical High School, will feature more than 30 workshops designed to connect people with nature, including a presentation on greater access to the outdoors for individuals with disabilities.

And if the problem turns out to be more serious than that, such as an actual learning disability, it's best to identify it early so your child can get ongoing help with it.

More than that, you risk your child having learning disabilities later on in life.

[3] Since bad diet is now acknowledged to be the biggest cause of death and disability, WHO is more than ever keen to help its Member States address this problem.

«We wouldn't want a child with a disability to have more of an expense to take an after - school class than another child.»

More than three quarters of respondents (77 %) reported having been discriminated on the basis of their disability and 73 % said they had not been given fair and equal opportunities when applying for teaching jobs or promotion Other results from the real - time interactive voting session included:

To date more than 5,000 employers have signed up to Disability Confident.

The MTA discriminates against people with disabilities because of its widespread lack of elevators and electric lifts in the subway system, rendering it significantly more inaccessible than other cities with large public transportation systems, according to two lawsuits filed yesterday.

Head injuries are the leading cause of death and permanent disability in bicycle crashes, accounting for more than 60 percent of bike - related deaths.

OPWDD coordinates supports and services for more than 126,000 New Yorkers with developmental disabilities, including intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, and other neurological impairments.

But Walcott and other officials questioned the report's math, arguing that the new schools, on average, serve as many or more minority students and students with disabilities than the schools they replaced.

It is about supporting the dedicated direct care workers — who certainly deserve more than a minimum wage — so they can support their families while they continue to support the 130,000 New Yorkers with developmental disabilities,» the #bFair2DirectCare campaign said.

The Office of Temporary Assistance and Disability has a budget of $ 5.4 billion and more than 2,000 workers, according to state records.

The Chancellor said: «The disability budget will still rise by more than # 1billion, and we'll be spending more in real terms supporting disabled people than at any point under the last government.»