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Request for ProposalsSAGE-Mitsubishi Inclusion Fellows
Goal: To fund innovative schools & programs that include students with disabilities in socially responsible student run businesses Overview: We will fund up to four schools and/or community based programs to include students with and without disabilities in, socially responsible, student run businesses.  Like any business, socially responsible businesses provide a needed product or service to the community. Socially responsible businesses take extra efforts to help people and protect the planet. 
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Meet the 2012 Selected Statewide Forums and Follow-up Projects
The National Arts and Disability Center is pleased to announce the selected 2012 Statewide Forums on Careers in the Arts for People with Disabilities and Follow-up projects intended to form partnerships among the disability and arts communities to address the educational and career needs of artists with disabilities. Kentucky will become the 27th state to conduct a Statewide Forum in October 2012. The conference will provide professional development and training for performing artists, visual artists, literary artists with disabilities, as well as organizations that serve them, concerning the business skills, legal literacy and marketing tools necessary for becoming a professional artists. Four states were selected to conduct Follow-up projects that directly affect the employment of artists with disabilities and are based on the identified needs, findings and/or strategic plan that were developed as a result of the initial Forum:
The Art & Science of Conversational Skills: How to Improve Social Communication for Adolescents & Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder
THURSDAY, April 26, 6:30pm Lecture at The Help Group - CART researcher Liz Laugeson, Psy.D. "The Art & Science of Conversational Skills: How to Improve Social Communication for Adolescents & Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder" Register online at www.thehelpgroup.org or mail13130 Burbank Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91401• n PH 818.779.5212 We hope you can join us for any or all of these lectures.
People Magazine: Joey Makes Progress
An update on Joey's progress after the article "Can Joey Make a Friend?" ran in the November 22, 2010 issue.
For a UCLA Director, Disability Does Not Define a Person
As director of UCLA's Tarjan Center, which helps people with disabilities live independently, Raynor stands at the forefront of a growing movement to change attitudes about the disabled. People should not be defined by a physical or developmental limitation, she says, but rather by the skills and talents that make them whole for the whole story go to http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/26458 
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