NEWS AND EVENTS

2010 Scholarship and Career Awards - Lighthouse International

Lighthouse International is now receiving applications for the 2010 Scholarship and Career Awards. 

These scholarships reward excellence, recognize accomplishments and help students who are blind or partially sighted pursue their academic and career goals.  Please note that applications must be submitted online by Sunday, March 14, 2010. 

The SCA program offers five $5,000 scholarships in three award categories:

• College-bound Award
• Undergraduate Award
• Graduate Award

To learn more about the Lighthouse Scholarship and Career Awards program and to submit an online application, please visit their web site at

www.lighthouse.org/sca

The Asians with Disabilities Outreach Project Seeking Student Participation

Are you interested in helping Asian immigrants and refugees in the Chicago metropolitan area? Working with a research team? Learning about cross-cultural disability issues? The Asians with Disabilities Outreach Project is seeking students with and without disabilities to join the UIC Center staff at the Department of Disability and Human Developement.

Please contact if you are interested, Dr. Rooshey Hasnain, Visiting Research Assistant Professor, Department of Disability and Human Development, Center for Capacity Building on Minorities with Disabilities Research, roosheyh@uic.edu, (312) 413-0416 (phone), 312-413-0453 (tty) 

"The Red Kite Project" Documentary - Every Child with Autism Has a Spirit Inside Ready to Take Off

In this feature length documentary, award-winning filmmaker Kerry Shaw Brown spends two years following the efforts of Jacqueline Russell and Chicago Children's Theatre to create a new theatre initiative for children with austim and their families.

At the official Red Kite Project website you can read more about the Red Kite Documentary, along with being able to view the first 11 minutes of the film and the last 6 minutes of the film.

AAPD's summer internships in Washington D.C.

The American Association of People with Disabilities is searching for college students with disabilities to apply for the:

2010 AAPD Summer Internships in Washington, D.C.

Each year, AAPD coordinates two summer internship programs for college students with disabilities wanting to spend a summer working in Washington, DC.  AAPD summer interns receive a living stipend, accessible housing, and travel to and from Washington, DC.  Currently-enrolled undergraduate college students with any type of disability pursuing any type of undergraduate degree are encouraged to apply.

To apply, please visit http://bit.ly/60j7Hx

Your Vision Your Talent

The Acadamy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation has created the Loreen Arbus Focus on Disability Scholarship.  It is a $10,000 scholarship given to a college student filmmaker who sheds light on people with disabilities.  The award will be given to a writer producer or director who is disabled, to a producer whose piece focuses on people disabilities, or to a piece that features a person with a disability as one of the main characters.

The deadline is January 13, 2010.  For more information go to the Loreen Arbus Focus on Disability Scholarship Web site.

QUOTE TO REMEMBER

“Indeed, when a child is spat from its mother’s womb, the first two questions heard are:  ‘Boy or girl?’ and ‘Is it all right?’  No practitioner of the midwife’s art ever stands beaming above the mother and proclaims, ‘What a fascinating child you’ve given birth to!  Six-fingered !’ or ‘Legs fused into a fin!’”

          - Ahab, in Ann Finger’s short story, “Moby Dick, or the Leg.”  From her book, Call Me Ahab:  A Short Story Collection.  (Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 2009).  P. 168.

Expanded Format of the Quote to Remember

American Association on Health and Disability(AAHD) Launches Scholarship Fund

The AAHD Scholarship Fund will support students with disabilities who are pursuing undergraduate or graduate work in the field of disability research, disability policy, health promotion or public health. The scholarships will initially be funded by royalties from the Disability and Health Journal. Scholarships will be limited to under $1,000 per student.

Check AAHD's website (www.aahd.us) for information about the application process, selection criteria and other important details.

New Resource for Finding Employment

GettingHired is a national employment and new social networking portal that uniquely connects job seekers with disabilities with employers committed to hiring them.