An initiative designed to promote inclusion for people with intellectual and physical disabilities.
Rochester, NY
Joined March 2014
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Dialogue on #Disability: How to eliminate barriers to #accessible housing and transportation | Via @wxxinews buff.ly/3HB7Uv0 #a11y
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Finding child care is hard. If your child has a disability, it's even harder. wxxinews.org/inclusion-desk/…
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Starting pay for caregivers of New Yorkers with disabilities is just over $16 an hour. Advocates say declining pay is fueling a crisis. wxxinews.org/inclusion-desk/…
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TV, radio & news stories - Dialogue week has it all! Tune in to Connections at 1PM for a panel on accessible housing. Then tune in to WXXI-TV tonight at 10PM for this fun take on experiencing travel in a new way.
#WXXI @MoveToInclude #AlSigl #AchievingMoreTogether
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Dialogue on Disability: Weeklong all-inclusive programming kicks off Jan. 22 ow.ly/phVO1058cen
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First One Take Doc of 2024: ALL YOU HEAR IS NOISE
7:15pm Thursday 1/11 (w/ post-screening discussion) & 3pm Saturday 1/13.
A portrait of 3 athletes with intellectual disabilities navigating life beyond the spotlight of the Special Olympics.
Community partner: Move To Include
ALT All you hear is noise poster with a man looking at goggles
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A big thanks to @starbridgeinc for this wonderful recognition! We are so proud of the tremendous work achieved by @MovetoInclude to promote inclusion in all aspects of our lives. Join us and Move to Include in all that you do.
WXXI is honored to receive @starbridgeinc's "Community Champion Award" along with our amazing partners, the @GolisanoFdn, for our Move to Include initiative.
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This film follows the mother of an autistic son, as she finds and then befriends the first child ever diagnosed with autism – Donald Triplett, who still lives in the small Mississippi town where he was born nearly 90 years ago. It airs tonight (12/13) at 9pm on WXXI-TV.
ALT An older gentleman in khaki clothing walking along a path in the woods
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People with disabilities are even less likely to be employed in Monroe County now than in 2018.
wxxinews.org/local-news/2022…
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Check out this lesson from an interview with @TroyKotsur for #NewshourClassroom about working as a deaf actor and the richness of the deaf culture. How does the movie CODA and the arts promote inclusion? Fun Fact: He has ties to #ROC as a @RITNTID alum. @MovetoInclude
Actor @TroyKotsur took home an Oscar on Sunday for his role in the movie CODA.
In this NEW PBS @NewsHour Classroom Daily News Lesson, discuss Kotsur and the "rich culture" of the deaf community: loom.ly/mhsM32c
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Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf and The Strong have partnered to celebrate Deaf Awareness Month with a Deaf Day of Play at the museum from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 20.
Read: bddy.me/3IioFce
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On Monday, a 10-year-old Buffalo Public Schools student returned to school for the first time in almost two years, just weeks after his family filed a federal lawsuit against the district.
From @EmyleWatkins and @WBFO.
wxxinews.org/2022-02-08/a-10…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major changes in the employment scene, and some additional challenges for people with disabilities.
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"Connections" continues their conversations abt inclusion during Dialogue on Disability Week TODAY at 1PM on AM 1370/FM 88.5 w/ Barbara Isaman Bushart, who shares her story abt loosing her hearing + what she's learned abt accessing resources. ow.ly/qKec50HEBHb
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Join @jeffspevak1 tomorrow at 2 p.m. on Facebook Live for this Inclusion Desk forum on the arts!
@WXXIrochester @MovetoInclude
Click here for the event: facebook.com/wxxinews/videos…
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Arthur has brought kids a real world view of growing up and learning as you go. They showed kids from different backgrounds, abilities and challenges and how they fit into the world. @MovetoInclude #DialogueOnDisability
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Dialogue on Disability, an initiative hosted by @AlSiglCommunity & WXXI that is designed to create a community that is more inclusive, for people with disabilities, kicks off today. The week-long initiative, which runs through 1/30. Learn more here >> wxxi.org/dod
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Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind the television show, said it is expanding its collection of online materials featuring Julia, a 4-year-old Muppet with autism. @PBS @WXXIrochester #Autism #AutismAwareness disabilityscoop.com/2021/10/…
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Today on Connections:
12:00: How can members of law enforcement better interact with people who have disabilities?
1:00: How should districts and families respond to racist incidents in schools?
wxxinews.org/post/coming-con…
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In case you missed it, or want to watch it again...
youtu.be/p_21X_jGOy8 A Virtual ASL Tour of Season of Warhol, March 2, 2021 Explore the many facets of Andy Warhol’s work in MAG’s exhibition Season of Warhol! Led by MAG Docent Jackie Schertz in ASL w/ interpreted English.
