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Roseville Today

Disabilities

Welcome to Roseville Today’s section on disabilities. Featuring a combination of original content, guest posts, inspiring stories, and practical tips. We hope you’ll find this section useful and informative. May it lift you with encouragement, empower you with empathy, and fuel you with compassion.

Autism Murphy’s Challenge

Melanie Murphy of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, thought at first that her son Cole just had a speech delay. 'He would say only a few words, and I couldn't understand what they were,' said Murphy, 36, in a telephone interview, of her then three-year-old son.

ADHD with Matt Lust

From all appearances, Matt Lust is 'normal.' He's a 24-year-old graduate student majoring in sociology at a midwestern university and a former high school football player.

Joni Eareckson Tada Part 2

This columnist recently featured Joni Eareckson Tada, a 40-year survivor of spinal cord injury, who broke her neck while diving into Maryland's Chesapeake Bay in 1967. She uses an electric wheelchair, and has paralysis in all four limbs.

Spina Bifida

Stacy Picard of Knoxville, Iowa, thought having a fifth child would be easy. 'The first couple children you worry about something going wrong, but after that you don't even think about the possibility of a disability,' said 30-year-old Picard in a telephone interview.

Joni Eareckson Tada (Part 1)

Joni Eareckson Tada likely is the most famous person you've never heard of.

Autism

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) website defines autism as a wide spectrum of disorders characterized 'by varying degrees of impairment in communication skills, social interactions, and restricted, repetitive, stereotyped patterns of behavior.'

Team Hoyt Part 2

As mentioned in a recent column, 'Team Hoyt' consists of 66-year-old Dick Hoyt and his 44-year-old son Rick Hoyt, and together they have competed in hundreds of marathons and other athletic events throughout America over the last 26 years.

Team Hoyt Part 1

A number of readers have drawn my attention to 'Team Hoyt' and graciously asked me to feature this amazing father-son running team associated with disability. The first email came from a reader of Grainger Today in Tennessee.

Blind Voting Rights

In 1994, a doctor diagnosed John Pare (pronouced pah-ray) with cone-rod degeneration, an eye disease involving retina degeneration similar to retinitis pigmentosa. The Univ. of Florida graduate learned his eyesight would further deteriorate. There was no cure.

๐Ÿ”ฆ Local Spotlight ๐Ÿ”ฆ

California Recovery Center in Roseville offers treatment for substance abuse and...

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Welcome to the Brighter Side

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Roseville, Calif.- When the time comes for members of the American military to hang up their uniforms for good, they'll inevitably face the same question anyone else asks themselves when nearing retirement: Where will I live?