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    UCCS, businesses collaborate on technology to aid disabled (access required)

    by Amy Gillentine Published: July 23,2010

    Tags: disabilities, DSoft, UCCS

    Colorado Springs businesses are collaborating with the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and K-12 educators to provide educators with examples of how technology can assist blind and visually impaired students. Funded by DSoft Technology, the first crossover applications symposium held demonstrations of screen readers, games for the visually impaired and learning environments for the [...] [...]

    People with disabilities are the highest-cost Medicaid group (access required)

    by Amy Gillentine Published: October 22,2009

    Tags: disabilities, Kaiser Permanente, Medicaid, pharmacy costs

    Medicaid patients with disabilities also have other problems that lead to higher drug and medical costs. A Kaiser Permanente study, built on an earlier analysis of one year of national Medicaid diagnostic data, found that when prescription drugs were added to the study, more problems were associated with people with disabilities, making them both the highest-need and the highest [...] [...]

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