Sentences with phrase «serve as a disability»

The Consortium expects to serve as a disability employment think tank, as well as a demonstration, evaluation, and policy advisor hub, housing best practice data uniquely suited to meet the needs of people with disabilities in the midwestern states.

For three years, Dr. Walker served as the Disability Program Manager for the U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a position he was appointed to through the Workforce Recruitment Program.

A former special education teacher of students with serious emotional disorders, Lynda has served as disabilities consultant and adjunct faculty for higher education.

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Bessant represents the company on a number of important topics, including diversity and inclusion, serving as an executive sponsor for the company's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride executive board and the LGBT Ally program and executive management team sponsor of the company's disability advocacy initiatives.

In addition, pursuant to our outside director equity compensation policy, in the event of the termination of a non-employee director's service to the Board as a result of death, disability or retirement, all of the non-employee director's equity compensation awards will become fully vested, provided that the non-employee director served as a member of the Board for at least three years prior to the date of termination and the non-employee director satisfied our equity ownership guidelines during his or her service as a Board member.

Federal, state and local officials have also teamed up with the Independent Living Center and other disability organizations to serve as a resource for individuals with disabilities, access and other functional needs.

However, they put its adherents under discriminatory disabilities: they did not allow Christians to serve in the Arab armies, they required them to wear a distinguishing garb, they placed on them a special tax, and they forbade them to give such public expressions to their faith as religious processions or the ringing of loud bells.

He serves as the chair of the Professional Advisory Board of the Learning Disabilities Association of America (www.ldatnatl.org), and on the Advisory Board of an educational website called http://www.insideadhd.comInside ADHD.com.

In addition, courts may consider others factors which could prevent a parent from serving as a primary custodian, such as a busy work schedule or a disability.

He worked for 47 years as a coach, athletic director and administrator serving troubled youth, disadvantaged children and people with developmental disabilities.

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.

About AIM AIM Independent Living Center, more commonly known as AIM, is a nonprofit organization that serves people with disabilities in New York's Southern Tier.

We, the members of Oneida County Office for the Aging and Continuing Care team, serve the elderly and individuals with disabilities of Oneida County as well as their families.

She believes that a person with disabilities can serve as a juror, but the final decision should rest with the individual.

In March 2015, Eisner served as an outside representative in a meeting with officials from the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.

He unsuccessfully sought to Chair the Disability Committee of the Council, and now serves as an active member of the Committee.

Debra Whiteford currently serves as Director of Developmental Disabilities Services in the Department of Mental Health.

He has focused his work, including two recent amendments — one to recruit, and the other to memorialize lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender members who have served honorably and with distinction in the Armed Forces — as well as to eliminate all forms of discrimination based on color, race, religion, gender, sex, creed, disability, sexual orientation or national origin.»

He was appointed Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Oversight, Analysis and Investigation in February 2011, after previously serving as the chair of the Committee on Libraries and Education Technology, the Legislative Task Force on People with Disabilities and the Subcommittee on Mitchell - Lama Housing.

The Commissioners of Agriculture & Markets, Children & Family Services, Education, Temporary & Disability Assistance, and Health, as well as the Director of Farmers Markets at Empire State Development Corporation and the Director of the State Office for the Aging will also serve ex officio.

Progressive opposition to Diaz was splintered, with Elvin García, who served as de Blasio's Bronx borough director as well as his LGBTQ liaison, winning support from the Stonewall Democrats, while Amanda Farias, who has worked for Queens City Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley, snagged endorsements not only from the Jim Owles Club, but also from Planned Parenthood, Vote Pro Choice, the 504 Democrats, which advocates on disabilities issues, and Black Lives Matter New York.

«We've known since Trump first called Mexicans rapists, since he bragged about going after married women in his book, since he attacked a Gold Star family, and insulted women and people with disabilities that he was unfit to serve as president.»

Jaye Bea Smalley, a longtime disabilities advocate who serves as co-president of the Citywide Council on Special Education, will join the Upper West Side's Community Board 7; the Rev. Keith Fennessy, a fifth - generation New Yorker and pastor of St. Columba Catholic Church in Chelsea, will join Community Board 4; and Sabrina Francis, an opera singer and music teacher at Round the Clock Daycare, will join Harlem's Community Board 9.

As city council president, Stein served as the presiding officer of the city council, was acting mayor in the absence or disability of Mayor Edward I. Koch, was a voting member of the New York City Board of Estimate, and handled constituent and policy issueAs city council president, Stein served as the presiding officer of the city council, was acting mayor in the absence or disability of Mayor Edward I. Koch, was a voting member of the New York City Board of Estimate, and handled constituent and policy issueas the presiding officer of the city council, was acting mayor in the absence or disability of Mayor Edward I. Koch, was a voting member of the New York City Board of Estimate, and handled constituent and policy issues.

Burke is senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Albany Medical Center, and previously served as the state's deputy secretary for health and commissioner of the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities.

She also serves as a publicity consultant for the Eben Ezer Foundation, a religious institution benefiting people with mental disabilities.

In honor of National Disability Awareness Month, this video was produced to serve as one of several events / activities focusing on increasing overall awareness to the barriers that individuals and families face with disabilities.

While the scar serves as a temporary Band - aid, it interferes with function over the long term, leading to disability and ultimately to heart failure.

Now researchers at UC San Francisco have taken the first step toward a comprehensive atlas of gene expression in cells across the developing human brain, making available new insights into how specific cells and gene networks contribute to building this most complex of organs, and serving as a resource for researchers around the world to study the interplay between these genetic programs and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, intellectual disability and schizophrenia.

This is the type of comprehensive project that can serve as a model for addressing the extraordinarily high rates of poverty and unemployment among working - age people with developmental disabilities.»

The lecture is named for Dr. Grundke - Iqbal, who served as professor and head of neuroimmunology at the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities from 1977 until her passing in September 2012.

He has a subspecialty in Developmental Pediatrics and is a fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics serving as a member of the section on Developmental Disabilities.

His goal is to serve as an advocate for the large community of individuals living with disabilities.

Grand Rapids, Michigan About Blog The mission of this blog is to serve as a voice of a constant researcher in the field of educational and assistive technologies so that the best products, strategies and services may be located easily, in hopes that they will then be delivered, taught and used to better the lives of people with disabilities.

CODI serves as a community resource for consumers and professionals by providing disability information in a wide variety of areas.

MyGradeBook This is the main page for the Red Book, which serves as a general reference source about the employment - related provisions of Social Security Disability

Turns out, we CODI serves as a community resource for consumers and professionals by providing disability information in a wide variety of areas.

Students with disabilities are served by a system of policy and practice that extends from expansive federal laws such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) all the way down to the interactions between a single special education teacher and a single student within ondisabilities are served by a system of policy and practice that extends from expansive federal laws such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) all the way down to the interactions between a single special education teacher and a single student within onDisabilities Education Act (IDEA) all the way down to the interactions between a single special education teacher and a single student within one classroom.

In my case, it was the disability advocacy groups who actively opposed charter schools as well as «specialized schools» designed to serve particular disabilities like autism.

It assumes that the cost of serving a privately placed student would be the same as the cost of serving the average student with the same disability.

As of 2004, private schools served, at public expense, a total of 88,156 students with disabilities of the 5,963,129 students with disabilities nationally, which amounts to 1.48 percent.

Let's examine the architecture of the mind that Levine proposes, which serves as the theoretical backdrop for his analysis of learning disabilities.

THIS IS NOT A VALID METHOD FOR DIAGNOSING LEARNING DISABILITIES but it can serve as important observational tool when referring a child for professional services such as psychological testing, speech therapy, and / or occupational therapy.

While accommodating the needs of people with disabilities in online learning environments, it also serves as a best practice for creating and developing learning opportunities that are accessible to everyone.

He has served as principal of Melton Specialist School and made major contributions to the review of the Program for Students with Disabilities.

Icahn officials note that they lack space to serve students with significant disabilities requiring self - contained classes and that the network often classifies children with milder disabilities as general - education students.

(2) The program ensures there are family child care homes available that are accessible and can serve children with disabilities and parents with disabilities, as appropriate.

Lea currently serves as Vice Chair of the Howard County Commission on Disability Issues and Vice President of the Howard County Education Association.

Particularly under Obama's education secretaries, the feds did indeed stick their noses into curriculum, teacher evaluation, and the intricacies of serving students with disabilities, as well as who can use which restroom.

As Sahm notes, studies by Marcus Winters have shown that there are complicated reasons why charter schools are listed as serving fewer students with disabilities than regular schools arAs Sahm notes, studies by Marcus Winters have shown that there are complicated reasons why charter schools are listed as serving fewer students with disabilities than regular schools aras serving fewer students with disabilities than regular schools are.