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Hope on Wheels: Disabled Dogs Inspire Rehab Patients

Cruising around with wheels instead legs, Chili and Arlo are the center of attention wherever they go. But for patients at a Rehab hospital...
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Custom Tricycles Give Burst of Freedom to Disabled Kids

A retired couple in Michigan believes that every child should have the exalted feeling of riding alone with the wind in their face. So...
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Therapist Uses Music to Heal Disabled Iranians Despite Ire of Islamic Clerics

Music therapy, a common practice in large parts of the world, is extremely rare in Iran, where conservative clerics outlawed pop music after the...
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Disabled Man Gives Free Wheelchairs, New Lives to Rural Mexicans

According to Richard St. Denis, an estimated 75,000 wheelchairs are thrown away in the U.S. every year. For people with disabilities in Mexico --...
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Disabled Bodies, but Able Workers!

80 percent of the workers hired at the Tennessee factory, which makes artificial grass, are disabled -- but, owner David Morris doesn't see them...
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Hockey Franchise Buys House for Disabled Boy who Loves the Game

11-year-old Zach Bennett fell in love with hockey right around the time his health troubles were at their worst. He suffers from neurofibromatosis, a...
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Tennessee’s Bold Leap in Care for the Aged and Disabled

After lagging behind the rest of the country for years, Tennessee is catching up fast when it comes to improvements in its health care...
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Disabled 21-Year-Old Stuck in Nursing Home With Seniors Until a Family Took Her in

A young woman was placed by the state of Alabama in a nursing home with only senior citizens because she had cerebral palsy and...
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Father and Son Team Hoyt Inspire Other Families to Run With Disabled Members

If you have not heard the inspiring story of Team Hoyt, watch this update from NBC about how other families have picked up the...
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Hero Equestrians Give Strength to Disabled (Video)

A therapeutic riding center, Hearts and Hooves operates with volunteers near Little Rock, Arkansas to allow people with disabilities to experience "the sensation...

Texas Man Brings Hope to Forgotten Disabled Iraqi Kids

Brad Blauser lives in war-torn Baghdad, where he doesn't earn a paycheck and is thousands of miles from his family. But he has no...
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Swim Time for Disabled Patients Becomes an Uplifting Experience

When you lose a leg, or two, it is hard to exercise. You gain a belly and sometimes a lot more. Especially at Walter...
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Everyone Deserves a Shot, a New Film Features Disabled Photographers

An inspirational new film set to premiere at the 2009 Full Frame Film Festival in April tells the story of an aspiring fashion...
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Passing Motorists Rescue Disabled Man

Police are praising the actions of two men who may have saved the life of a disabled Fenton man after his minivan caught...
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Disabled Veterans Serve in New Mission Tutoring Disadvantaged Kids

Amidst the flood of young disabled veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, a group of older veterans organized themselves to help ease the return...

Wheelchairs Keep Disabled Pets Moving

This is a really sweet story about how tiny--or not so tiny--wheelchairs are giving disabled pets a new lease (or should that be 'leash'?)...
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Creating Life-Saving Jobs for Disabled (Video)

In Peru, where jobs are scarce, it's nearly impossible to find work if you have a disability. But three friends are fighting to change...

Helping Disabled to Become Entrepreneurs in London

"A new initiative aiming to break down the barriers preventing London’s 800,000 disabled people from starting their own businesses, was launched last week." It's...
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Disabled Iraqi Children Get Wheelchairs

A private contractor in Iraq noticed a need. Now prisoners in South Dakota are building -- and the US military is delivering --...

Miracle Baseball League Helps Disabled Kids Play the Game They Love

Thirteen-year-old Justin Clemens loves baseball. Though born premature and covered with bruises after complications at birth, he's more mature than most boys his age,...