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Getting Therapy When There’s No MoneyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I can’t help but mention this article in The New York Times about how to get mental health care when you have no insurance or for some reason your have minimal coverage for mental health concerns with your current health insurance (which should change come January 1, 2010 when the federal mental health parity law kicks in). In the article, Lesley Alderman “offer[s] advice for those without insurance, or with only minimal coverage, on how to find low-cost mental health care.” The solutions should be familiar to our regular readers — self-help techniques (most of which you can find online; but you can...
Source: World of Psychology - November 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Psychotherapy Stress Treatment Alderman Community Mental Health Community Mental Health Center Current Health Eap Employee Assistance Program Find Money Health Concern Heal Source Type: blogs

Surviving the Suicide of Someone You LoveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
My brother’s childhood best friend committed suicide. I was 16 years old at the time, Mark (not his real name) was 21. Mark’s parents were close friends of my parents; we played together as little kids, he was my first crush. We drifted apart as we grew up. Mark was a Kennedy-esque figure to me, handsome and smart. Everyone expected great things when he went off to an Ivy League law school. Then he was dead. I have a vivid memory of walking around the neighborhood with Mark’s brother at night. The adults were sitting shiva and he had to get away. Suddenly he grabbed a fallen branch and wailed it on the tr...
Source: World of Psychology - November 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Elvira G. Aletta, Ph.D. Tags: Depression Disorders General Grief and Loss Health-related Personal Policy and Advocacy Treatment American Foundation For Suicide Prevention Close Friends Committed Suicide Conflicting Emotions Dead Tomorrow Family Friends Fami Source Type: blogs

Preparing for the IEP Meeting: BookletEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As your IEP meeting approaches, you may want to create a booklet that highlights your child, and provides the IEP team with important documents that help the team decide on appropriate educational services (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 21, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Turn On My Ears! Tags: Advocacy Cochlear Implant Education VB Source Type: blogs

PodcastEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It's common sense to me what is not accessible to deaf people because well...umm...I am deaf :-p What I always forget is that hearing people aren't always aware.I was reminded of this at the NSGC conference when I was talking with a couple of people ab... (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 20, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Life Is About Creating Yourself Tags: ASL Advocacy Deaf VB Source Type: blogs

2009 Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy RecommendationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Earlier this month, I was honored to attend the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy in Atlanta, Georgia. The focus of this symposium every year is to tackle a particular issue in mental health policy, population or care. This year focused, fittingly enough, on health care reform and how mental health and substance abuse programs need to be an integrated part of that effort: Currently health care in this country is focused on illness rather than health, on procedures and face-to-face interventions rather than on coordination and prevention, and on fragmented, specialty-driven care rather than on a...
Source: World of Psychology - November 20, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Children and Teens General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Psychology Treatment Atlanta Georgia Behavioral Healthcare Field Delivery System Driven Care Elegant Option Evidence Base Forefront Health Source Type: blogs

Seinfeld Confronted By AutisticEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Jerry Seinfeld, a supporter of Autism Speaks was recently confronted by an Autistic Person outside a Autism Speaks fund raising event. It was caught on video. Jerry Seinfeld seems to be blowing off the person with Aspergers Syndrome who is asking him not to support Autism Speaks. The person recording the video repeatedly tries to [...] (Source: AspieWeb.net)
Source: AspieWeb.net - November 20, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Zach Tags: Advocacy Aspergers Autism Autism Speaks Seinfeld Source Type: blogs

Taking A Stand Against the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s “New Breast Cancer Guidelines”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As a member of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Advocacy Alliance Board and a breast cancer survivor, I welcome readers of Disruptive Women in Health Care to read the statement below that was released by Komen as a result of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force “new breast cancer guidelines.” In addition, please visit the Komen website: www.komenadvocacy.org and take a stand and action by signing the petition and help ensure that all women have access to this lifesaving screening. Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Recommends No Impediments to Breast Cancer Screening Until Science Improves, Current Screening Recom...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 20, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Women's Health advocacy Breast breast cancer BreastCancer health care mammography Screening Source Type: blogs

YouTube Gets Automated CaptionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I was really excited to see on my news feed today that YouTube will begin automatic captioning for videos. The captioning will be using voice recognition (like Google Voice does) to caption videos. The link: Official Google Blog: Automatic captions in ... (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 19, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Hearing Sparks Tags: Advocacy Hearing Loss VB Source Type: blogs

Maine Representative Becomes 19th CosponsorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Caption Action 2 just learned this morning that HR3101 got its 19th cosponsor!Let's welcome from Maine, Representative Chellie Pingree (D-1)!Thanks to the anonymous commenter in the previous post for alerting us! (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 19, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Caption Action 2 Tags: Advocacy Hearing Loss VB Source Type: blogs

Preparing for the IEP Meeting: Future Planning StatementEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As your IEP meeting approaches, you will want to prepare a "FuturePlanning Statement". This part of the IEP is for parents to express their goals,wants, needs and aspirations for their child. (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 19, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Turn On My Ears! Tags: Advocacy Cochlear Implant Education VB Source Type: blogs

2009 Army Suicides: Highest EverEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
While most of us will be spending Thanksgiving with our loved ones next week, there are already 140 Army families who will not be spending this year celebrating their time together. Instead, those families will be mourning the loss of one of their own, due to suicide. With 140 suicides already on the books amongst Army families, 2009 is going to the be a record-breaking year for the Army, but not in a way they would like anyone to notice. 2009 will mark the year that the Army has suffered the highest suicide rate ever. So what does the Army do? Does it recognize the significance of this number with a solemn, sincere statem...
Source: World of Psychology - November 18, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression General Health-related Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Army Families Army Suicides Chief Of Staff Child Care Combat Missions Connect The Dots Denial Due Resp Source Type: blogs

Two Ladies - 1 Fully Grown/1 Not Fully Grown - Make Strides on HR 3101Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Recently, two deaf ladies with a huge stake in the matter, did their parts for HR 3101. One lady is fully grown up, the other lady is not quite fully grown up yet. Both of them were dynamic in their accomplishments.Marlee MatlinThe fully grown up deaf... (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 17, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Caption Action 2 Tags: Advocacy Deaf Hearing Loss VB Source Type: blogs

World Diabetes Day 2009Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This past Saturday, I hosted a World Diabetes Day party in midtown Manhattan for about 20 of my closest D-friends. There was a great mix of type 1s, type 2s and type 3s there and we enjoyed New York style pizza and a homemade cake from one of the members of the ACT1 Diabetes support group. Erik and I went down to the space near Penn Station around 11:00 to find Val already waiting for us! Val helped Erik and I move tables around to accommodate everyone, and while Erik went to purchase diet sodas (in 3 flavors!), Val blew up blue balloons while I taped streamers to the tables. It was very festive! People starting arriving s...
Source: Lemonade Life - November 16, 2009 Category: Diabetes Authors: Allison Blass Tags: Advocacy Diabetes NYC Photos The O.C. Source Type: blogs

Are We Racially Color Blind Yet?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study shows that these transference errors may be more likely in cross-race identifications. Ouch. That means that when it comes to eye-witness identification, whites are twice as likely to mis-identify a black person than a white person. Obviously, this sort of high error rate has significant ramifications for trials and the use of eye-witness accounts. With lower accuracy comes a higher likelihood of error and identifying someone as the perpetrator of a crime when, in fact, they were not. As the researchers noted, context is especially important. “When making an identification, witnesses must not only remembe...
Source: World of Psychology - November 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Memory and Perception Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Psychology Research Convincing Evidence Crimes Criminality Delve Demeanor Different Races Entry Level Positions Equal Footing Eye Source Type: blogs

World Diabetes Day.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Happy World Diabetes Day to my friends in the diabetes community!!! (Source: Six Until Me.)
Source: Six Until Me. - November 15, 2009 Category: Diabetes Tags: Diabetes Advocacy Source Type: blogs

Hack Your Library, Hearing-Impaired or NotEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As I mentioned in my first post to this blog, I work in a public library. Nothing makes me more sad than a patron who has been coming to the library for years, yet doesn't know about some key features of the library that can really help them. These hin... (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 14, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Hearing Sparks Tags: Advocacy Hearing Loss eab Source Type: blogs

Am I Depressed or Just Deep?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I spent my adolescence and teenage years obsessing about this question: Am I depressed or just deep? When I was nine, I figured that I was a young Christian mystic because I related much more to the saints who lived centuries ago than to other nine-year-old girls who had crushes on boys. I couldn’t understand how my sisters could waste quarters on a stupid video game when there were starving kids in Cambodia. Hello? Give them to UNICEF! Now I look back with tenderness to the hurting girl I was and wished somebody had been able to recognize that I was very depressed. Not that I would have accepted the help. I believed...
Source: World of Psychology - November 14, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Depression Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media On the Couch Personal Personality Policy and Advocacy Psychology Psychotherapy Treatment Women's Issues Adolescence Aloneness Author Daniel Barrettes Bestselling Author Source Type: blogs

What my mom has done for me (This is for the parents…)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I received the following very sweet comment on my blog on Thursday."I've been reading your blog for a couple of months now. I must say that you are both a very good and a very entertaining writer. So if that medical career doesn't work out for you(whic... (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 14, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Cacophony to Symphony Tags: Advocacy Cochlear Implant Education Hard-of-Hearing Hearing Loss VB Source Type: blogs

Broadband for America Blog Post!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Today Caption Action 2 had its first-ever guest blog, on the Broadband for America website! What is Broadband for America? It is a coalition of companies and organizations focused on promoting and increasing the availability of broadband. Jamie met a ... (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 13, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Caption Action 2 Tags: Advocacy Deaf Hearing Loss VB Source Type: blogs

Policy Update: Progress in the fight against HIV/AIDSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The HIV/AIDS community continues to make progress in the policy fight against the epidemic. Critical funding has been maintained or enhanced at the state and federal levels, and discriminatory policies targeting HIV+ people are coming undone. Read on for more detail on key areas of policy progress, as well as struggles that still need your help. National HIV/AIDS Strategy Comment Period Closing Friday AIDS Action Committee is proud to be a leading member of the Coalition for a National AIDS Strategy, the grassroots organization founded two years ago that successfully lobbied presidential candidates Obama and McCain to comm...
Source: AIDS Action Committee's Blog - November 13, 2009 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Dustin Kight Tags: Uncategorized action advocacy agenda harm reduction HIV prevention policy HIV Health Syringe Exchange Source Type: blogs

Phonak and Macy’sEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
11/10/2009 Hear the World Tour: Phonak Joins Forces with Macy’s to Raise Awareness About the Importance of Hearing and Consequences of Hearing Loss In-store events include an internationally-acclaimed photography exhibit by Bryan Adams featuring Hear the World celebrity ambassadors and free hearing screenings Stäfa, Switzerland – October 12, 2009 – The Hear the World initiative by Phonak [...] (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 13, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: The Hearing Corner Tags: Advocacy Hard-of-Hearing Hearing Loss VB Source Type: blogs

Methuselah Foundation PSA VideosEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I'm slipping behind the times here, it seems; the recently produced batch of Methuselah Foundation public service announcement video slots were mentioned by the deathist authors at Futurisms before that topic made it to the head of my "yet to post" list. Those folk write well, actually; it is a pity that they feel, like Leon Kass, that the spirit and purpose of their conservatism is to stand in support of present suffering and barbarism against a bright future of cures, change, and progress. History will judge them unkindly, if it recalls them at all. In any case, here are some of the videos that the Methuselah Foundation...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 13, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs

School newsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Well, the newness of school has wore off for Miles. On his second day of class, they had gym with a male gym teacher. Miles must have thought he was a very scary guy because when he got near him, Miles freaked out. He started crying and I think we all ... (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 12, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Ollie and Ericka Plus 3 Tags: Advocacy Education Hearing Aid Hearing Loss VB Source Type: blogs

The Carter Center’s Mental Health ProgramEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Last week while attending the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, I had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting for a few moments with Thomas Bornemann, Ed.D. who has served as the Director of The Carter Center Mental Health Program for the past seven years. If you didn’t know, The Carter Center has been a leading force in helping to coordinate national mental health policy over the past two and a half decades. It does most of its work behind the scenes and is rarely noted for what it does best — bringing all stakeholders to the same table to talk and work on how they can advance po...
Source: World of Psychology - November 12, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Disorders General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Treatment Action Steps Behavioral Health Bornemann Carter Center Collaborations Divergence Few Moments Financing Mental Health Services First Lady Source Type: blogs

SUM Diabetes Stuff to Share.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Oh, the diabetes interwebs have some things to share ... so here's a few I wanted to make sure I passed on to you guys.Over the weekend, I saw a sneak peek of the final Making Sense of Diabetes video, brought to us by the Diabetes Hands Foundation. (But for Gina and I, in the hotel lobby, it was bought to us by Manny and his laptop.) I have to admit - and these aren't the pregnancy hormones talking - this video brought me to tears. Not necessarily because it's depressing, but more because it's inspiring. The people featured in this video are people with diabetes, and they're sharing the intimate det...
Source: Six Until Me. - November 11, 2009 Category: Diabetes Tags: Diabetes Advocacy Source Type: blogs

In Honor of Veterans, 2009Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This Veterans Day, as we honor the sacrifices made by soldiers who’ve served and those who continue to do so, we mark the 91st anniversary of the end of World War I. It seems so long ago to most of us — ancient history. Yet history is a teacher and if we don’t listen, we’re bound to repeat the same mistakes. The mistake we’re repeating today is not doing enough to recognize and take care of veterans’ mental health needs. This isn’t some feel good mantra. This is a very real need that the military continues to have problems meeting. A professional, nonprofit that represents 1,600 be...
Source: World of Psychology - November 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Disorders General Grief and Loss Health-related Mental Health and Wellness PTSD Policy and Advocacy Treatment Behavioral Health Behavioral Healthcare Organizations Community Behavioral Healthcare Department Of Veterans Affairs Heal Source Type: blogs

AbleGamers: A Resource for Accessibility in Video GamesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
One of the news bits circling around gaming blogs lately is the story of Alexander Stern, a visually impaired gamer who has sued Sony for what he says is a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act in their games. Whether or not te suit is valid... (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 10, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Hearing Sparks Tags: Advocacy Hearing Loss VB Source Type: blogs

The Psychology of Hasan: The Ft. Hood ShooterEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I’ve held off in writing anything about the tragic Ft. Hood shooting, allowing some time for details to emerge and for emotions to settle. Random acts of violence always leave us all scratching our heads, but sometimes the violence seems so extreme, the act so irrational, one can’t help but turn and ask, “Why did he do it?” Major Nidal Malik Hasan is now apparently conscious and talking in his hospital bed, after being shot multiple times by Sgt. Kim Munley, a civilian police officer, who selflessly and heroically put herself in harm’s way in order to save countless of others’ lives. Mun...
Source: World of Psychology - November 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Grief and Loss Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media PTSD Policy and Advocacy Stress Acts Of Violence Aggressive Response Army Training Array Christian Science Monitor Civilian Police Coercion Source Type: blogs

Two Heartbeats on D-Blog Day.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The first time we saw him (or her), it was at the emergency room back in Connecticut. We were only seven weeks into the pregnancy and barely had caught our breath from finding out when the bleeding happened and I panicked. We spent five hours in the emergency room, poked and prodded and with an IV line at the ready, only to finally be wheeled into the ultrasound room. "Just relax, Mrs. Sparling. And we'll take a look and see if everything is okay."And the screen switched on and Chris and I saw our baby's heartbeat, strong and steady and fast, beating inside of me. Everything changed ...
Source: Six Until Me. - November 9, 2009 Category: Diabetes Tags: Diabetes Advocacy Source Type: blogs

Only Half Access to Cable Without HR 3101Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
How people get their cable TV is going to change very soon - and deaf and hard of hearing viewers are at risk for only getting half the access to what they pay for. Comcast is going to offer their cable programming online starting in December. (Time Wa... (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 6, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Caption Action 2 Tags: Advocacy Deaf Hearing Loss Source Type: blogs

Best of Our Blogs: November 6, 2009Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I’m attending the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy today, and I’ll write more about the inspirational work this organization has been doing for 25 years shortly (not just in Georgia, but throughout the entire country). The people who are attending this symposium — as well as the Carter Center itself — have done much to improve mental health care in the U.S., but it’s not something you hear enough about. It’s heartening so many great minds coming together to share best practices and ideas for improvement (especially at this unique time in healthcare history). ...
Source: World of Psychology - November 6, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: General Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Psychology Best Practices Bipolar Disorder Blogs Carter Center Ceos Dance Floor Daniel Johnston Depression Anxiety Fort Hood Hallway Inspirational Work Mental Health Care Source Type: blogs

Why I'm Glad My Parents Don't Pray MuchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
You might know the story: Two local Wisconsin parents prayed instead of seeking medical help for their frail and sickly daughter. She died of untreated type 1 diabetes and they have recently been charged with murder and sentenced to prison time. Apparently, family and friends had urged Dale and Leilani Neumann to get help for their daughter, Madeline, but it fell on deaf ears. Madeline's (undiagnosed) type 1 diabetes emerged at the same time in her life that mine did: age eleven. So her story hits close to home for this Wisconsin girl and type 1 diabetic. However, contrary to Madeline's folks, my parents (not being overly-...
Source: Diabetes Daily - November 5, 2009 Category: Diabetes Tags: advocacy childhood diabetes faith parenting Roseanne Barr type 1 Source Type: blogs

Another Fantastic ResourceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I contacted The Children's Legal Advocacy Program that AG Bell sponsors earlier this week with some questions and concerns regarding the level and type of service that Christian is receiving (and proposed to receive once he turns 3). Within 24 hours, I... (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 5, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Live*Laugh*Love*Family Tags: ASL Advocacy Cochlear Implant Source Type: blogs

Bye Bye Asperger’s Syndrome?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Is the diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome — a mild form of autism mostly diagnosed in boys — heading the way of the dodo bird? A new article in the New York Times suggests that the new revision of the diagnostic manual — the DSM-V — is likely to do away with the diagnosis. How can you just delete an entire diagnosis and do away with a diagnostic label that hundreds of thousands of clinicians use everyday and millions identify with? If you’re the American Psychiatric Association, the folks behind the latest DSM revision, you can pretty much do anything you want. Before I get to Asperger...
Source: World of Psychology - November 5, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Autism Brain and Behavior Children and Teens Disorders General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Policy and Advocacy Psychology American Psychiatric Association Asperger S Syndrome Asperger Syndrome Attention De Source Type: blogs

Evaluating an Industry that Doesn't ExistEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Imagine an industry poised to burst into existence. The signs are there: the advocates, the tinkerers, the potential business models and user demand, the promising early scientific work yet to be fully exploited. But how you determine whether this is real or all an illusion? How to find out whether an explosion of progress and growth is just about to happen, or whether the seeds of this nascent industry will continue to germinate at low levels of activity for years longer? There is only one useful method: invest a significant amount of money and see how much interest, activity, and follow-on investment it attracts. This i...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 5, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs

New survey on TV subtitles: have your sayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
When I ask deaf young people what their pet peeves are, invariably they mention the quality of subtitles on TV. So I was pretty pleased to see that RNID have commissioned some research to look at what people think about subtitles. And they’re currently asking deaf people to feed in their views to help with [...] (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 4, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Campaigning for deaf children Tags: Advocacy Deaf Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Fight for Hearing Aid Coverage in MassachusettsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Boston Herald reports on an effort to get insurance companies in Massachusetts to cover hearing aids for children. Massachusetts House Bill 910 (see Adobe PDF file) which would require insurance companies to pay for a good chunk of the cost of hearing aids, is opposed by the insurance companies. The insurance companies are using the standard argument that adding coverage for hearing aids will raise the cost of insurance for all.Fight for Hearing Aid Coverage in Massachusetts originally appeared on About.com Deafness on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 20:37:59.Permalink | Comment | Email this (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 4, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: About.com Deafness Tags: Advocacy Deaf Hearing Aid Hearing Loss Source Type: blogs

2 Years Blogging -Goal for Year 3: Self-ControlEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It's been two years and I still haven't learned the art of self-control. I react without counting to three and whatever happens, happens. I can't go on like this, it's oftentimes counter-productive. Writing is the perfect way to get things off your che... (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - November 4, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear Implant Story Tags: Advocacy Cochlear Implant Hearing Loss Source Type: blogs

What Health Care Reform Means for Mental HealthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Now that it looks like some form of health care reform will be passed this year — barring a catastrophe like Joe Lieberman — we have some idea of how the eventual act will affect mental health services. All of the plans now under consideration will mean some real improvements for mental health consumers, and there doesn’t seem much likelihood of these improvements being cut out before passage. However, it appears that individuals and employers will still have to purchase their insurance from private insurance companies, without competition from a strong public option like Medicare available for everyone. Neve...
Source: World of Psychology - November 3, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Richard O'Connor, MSW, Ph.D. Tags: General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Policy and Advocacy Treatment Added Expense Chronic Depression Copay Family Doctor Health Care Reform Insurance Company Joe Lieberman Lifetime Benefits Likelihood Mental Health Source Type: blogs

Countdown to World Diabetes Day: Get Ready for the Big Blue TestEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hope you all had a fun Halloween weekend. Somehow the conclusion of that sugar-fest seems a great segue into National Diabetes Awareness Month, no? And the countdown begins to World Diabetes Day on Nov. 14, 2009. Where to begin describing all the activities planned around the web and around the world to “bring diabetes [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - November 2, 2009 Category: Diabetes Authors: AmyT Tags: D-News Examined Diabetes Blogs and Web Stuff ADA American Diabetes Association Big Blue Test blood sugar blood sugar test diabetes advocacy diabetes.org diabetic glucose monitoring IDF JDRF National Diabetes Awareness Month WDD Source Type: blogs

What Happiness Looks Like: A Chance for Change on World Pneumonia DayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The following guest post comes to Disruptive Women from Lois Privor-Dumm, IMBA, Director, Alliances and Information for the PneumoADIP, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She heads up several vaccine projects related to advocacy and communications as well as access and implementation. She is currently working as Director, Large Country Introduction for the Accelerated Vaccine Introduction Technical Assistance Consortium (AVI TAC), a GAVI-funded project with an aim to accelerate introduction of pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines in low-income countries. She has been at Johns Hopkins since 2005 helping...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - November 2, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Guest Posts advocacy developing countries pneumonia vaccines World Pneumonia Day Source Type: blogs

Looking Back: Reflections on HalloweenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Happy Halloween! Today, I'm revisiting one of my first columns for Generation D, written back in 2006 about a Halloween experience from when I was in middle school. (Believe me, it's safer than watching the Halloween video I did last year, before I figured out how to edit and instead rambled on and on and on and ... you get it.) * * * More Than Candy and Costumes Dressing up was not an issue. I wore my silly costumes proudly and they were always homemade. I was a fairy godmother one year. I was a gypsy for about three years running. Another year I was Bo Peep, complete with sheep.Then one y...
Source: Six Until Me. - October 31, 2009 Category: Diabetes Tags: Diabetes Advocacy Source Type: blogs

Kentucky Deaf ActivismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Hello Folks:I know I've been quiet for a while, but I had my personal reasons. Hopefully everyone is gearing up to have a happy and safe Halloween!I'm writing this post tonight to talk about an issue that is near and dear to me, namely, the deaf and hard of hearing community (Source: Deaf Village)
Source: Deaf Village - October 31, 2009 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Smashing Down The Door Tags: Advocacy Deaf Source Type: blogs

An Alliance on Mental Illness or for Pharmaceutical Companies?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A recent article by Gardner Harris in the New York Times focused on the financial links among health care corporations and not-for-profit disease (or patient) advocacy groups.A majority of the donations made to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one of the nation’s most influential disease advocacy groups, have come from drug makers in recent years, according to Congressional investigators.The alliance, known as NAMI, has long been criticized for coordinating some of its lobbying efforts with drug makers and for pushing legislation that also benefits industry. Last spring, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 30, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: NAMI stealth marketing stealth health policy advocacy pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs

The Homeless Highway GentlemanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The homeless highway gentleman walks as if he’s on a mission. He walks alongside a busy stretch of highway in southern New Hampshire every day, roughly at the same time, wearing the exact same clothes. You can tell he’s a gentleman because he wears a faded, outdated tan sports jacket. It’s seen better days, but so has the gentleman. He’s older, balding, and very much on his own. And yet, when you see him, you notice he has a sense of civilized purpose and dignity about him. It’s how and where he walks that gets people’s attention. He doesn’t walk on the grassy berm next to the four...
Source: World of Psychology - October 29, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: General Personal Policy and Advocacy Berm Better Days Cars Cell Phone Clothes Conclusions Days Like Today Demons Dignity Few Minutes Frailty Gentleman Good Face Gutter Homeless Ins Lane Highway Luxuries Man Withou Source Type: blogs

Sweet Book, Sugarless BallerinaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
“Diabetes? I’ve heard of it. It’s one of those charity diseases, the kind they raise money for… There’s no way I can have diabetes. I’m a twenty-one year-old dancer with the New York City Ballet. Things like that don’t happen to people like me!“ — Zippora Karz, from the first chapter of her new memoir, “The [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - October 29, 2009 Category: Diabetes Authors: AmyT Tags: Books & Resources ballerina diabetes children with diabetes CWD diabetes advocacy diabetes books diabetes education diabetic insulin JDRF Sugarless Plum TCOYD Zippora Karz Zippora Karz diabetes Source Type: blogs

Letting People Read LettersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions. It’s wonderful to see the law doing the right thing! (Source: NTs Are Weird)
Source: NTs Are Weird - October 28, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Joel Tags: Access Advocacy Source Type: blogs

Why Advocacy For Longevity Science?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Why advocacy for longevity science? Why is it important for us to be building megaphones, educating people about the scientific foundation for extended healthy life, and persuading everyone we can to help? Put simply it is because this advocacy is a necessary part of the only reliable, proven path to establishing a research community capably of getting the job done. One of the most active Immortality Institute activists, brokenportal, sent me the text below today, which I reproduce with his permission. The dedication is a reminder to the rest of us just what it takes to make things happen in this world of ours: Will we ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 28, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs

Patient Stabs Doctor, Shot Dead at Bipolar ClinicEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A patient being seen at the Massachusetts General Hospital’s Bipolar Clinic and Research Program attacked his physician today, stabbing her with a knife during a treatment session according to Boston Police. The incident occurred in an office building nearby the main Mass. General building, where the hospital leases space for the Bipolar Clinic: After at least one gunshot echoed on the fifth floor, two nurses from [a neighboring] office went to treat the patient, who had apparently been shot in the head by the security guard [...] “During the course of the stabbing incident, an off-duty security officer who wa...
Source: World of Psychology - October 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Bipolar Disorders General Policy and Advocacy 6 Years Attacker Bipolar Disorder Boston Globe Boston Police Criminal Behavior Criminal Incidents Criminality Duty Security Fifth Floor Gunshot Health Care Problems History Of V Source Type: blogs

Insurance Tactic Shot Down in L.A.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Score one for our side: A tactic used by insurance companies to deny expensive behavioral therapy to autistic children has been deemed illegal by a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge, who has found that Kaiser Permanente’s refusal to pay for a child’s autism treatment because the provider was not licensed by the state runs counter to California’s Mental Health Parity Act. That act requires insurers to cover care for mental and behavioral problems at the same levels they do for physical illnesses. The ruling came as part of a lawsuit filed by Consumer Watchdog, a Santa Monica advocacy organization, ag...
Source: Autism Vox - October 27, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Jeff Stimpson Tags: Autism Advocacy Conference Autism Organizations California Cause Insurance Legal Issues Legislation Vaccines ABA therapy Autism Blogger toronto Source Type: blogs