By LEILANIE ADRIANO LAOAG CITY—Ilocos Norte is the only province in Region I that has failed to comply with the law creating a provincial Persons with Disability Affairs Office (PDAO), while only one out of its two cities and 21 towns has set up the office.
By MIKHAIL FRANZ E. FLORES Now that the K to 12 system of education is being enforced in the country and native languages have begun to be used as medium of instruction from kindergarten to Grade 3, deaf children will also get the chance to use their mother tongue: sign language.
By ELIZABETH LOLARGA WHEN her first child Ibarra was born 20 years ago, Matec Villanueva, then 32, felt like she was a Ms. Universe contestant onstage answering a crucial question asked, the question being "What is the essence of a woman?" Her quick answer at that point in her life would have been "Motherhood!"
WHEN dentist Jeana Lacsamana Manalaysay voted in the 2010 elections, her husband and son had to lift her wheelchair up three steps to her voting precinct in Almanza Uno in Las Pinas.
By MIKHAIL FRANZ E. FLORES ON May 13 next year, persons with disabilities (PWDs) will no longer have to worry about climbing a flight of stairs in order to cast their votes in the midterm elections.
By HAZEL VILLA, VICENTE ALEJANDRO AND NESTOR RAMIREZ THE Western Visayas Regional Council for Disability Affairs is hosting a two-day summit for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Iloilo City, one of the many ways government agencies in the Visayas will be celebrating National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation (NDPR) Week.
By LEILANIE ADRIANO LAOAG CITY—Alainrey Gamit Barroga needs a botox injection soon, and not because he is vain. The 38-year-old artist was diagnosed with X-linked Dystonia Parkinsonism (XDP) locally known as “lubag,” an inherited neurodegenerative condition affecting mostly males that can only be treated but for which there is no known cure.
By CONG B. CORRALES, VANESSA L. ALMEDA, WALTER I. BALANE and KARLOS MANLUPIG
VARIOUS groups of persons with disabilities (PWDs) based in Mindanao have criticized the Commission on Elections’ decision to cancel the planned special voter registrations for this sector this month.
Text by XIANNE ARCANGEL, Photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV PERSONS with disabilities (PWDs) possessing skills in information and communications technology face a bright future: Companies are turning to them to fill vacancies for highly technical jobs.
By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES THE special registration for persons with disabilities (PWDs) nationwide set for next month will be called off following the Commission on Elections’ decision to give priority to voter registration in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).