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71Service dog — A service dog is a type of assistance dog, specifically trained to help people who have disabilities other than visual or hearing impairment, or medical response dogs. Service dogs do not have to have pedigrees: desireable character traits, good… …
72Kelvin Tan — Chinese name 陳偉聯 (Traditional) Chinese name 陈伟联 (Simplified) Pinyin Chén Wěilián (Mandarin) Birth name …
73Ron Whyte — Ronald Melville Whyte (1941–1989) was an American playwright, critic, and disability rights activist.Whyte was born November 18, 1941 in Black Eagle, Montana to Eva Ranieri, a homemaker and Henry Melville Whyte, a railroad machinist. The family… …
74Paratransit — Two Maui Bus buses engaged in paratransit services. One is picking up a person who uses a wheelchair, while another is discharging another person using a mobility scooter. Paratransit is an alternative mode of flexible passenger transportation… …
75H. Ramakrishnan — H Ramakrishnan was born on Christmas Day 1941, in Trivandrum, Kerala, India to R Harihara Iyer and Vijayalakshmi. Has over 40 years of experience as a journalist. He has worked in State run media Doordarshan, ((All India Radio)), Press… …
76disability discrimination — treatment of an employee less favourably than the treatment of others for a reason that relates to a disabled person s disability and other forms of discrimination such as booking hotel accommodation: Disability Discrimination Act 1995. Collins… …
77Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — SNAP logo The United States Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),[1] historically and commonly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federal assistance program that provides assistance to low and no income people …
78Americans With Disabilities Act - ADA — Legislation passed in 1990 that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. Under this Act, discrimination against a disabled person is illegal in employment, transportation, public accommodations, communications and government… …
79disability — It is widely assumed that the term ‘disability’ refers to a biological or medical condition. However, since the late 1980s those involved in the campaign for civil rights for disabled people have stressed the difference between an impairment… …
80Disability pretenders — A disability pretender is someone who behaves as if s/he is disabled. Pretenders may be the missing link between devotees and wannabes, proving an assumed continuum between those merely attracted to people with disabilities and those actively… …
