• More people are returning to the Orlando theme parks with weeks booked up at a time during Spring Break. Maureen Deal founder of the website Autism At The Parks says those guests include people on the autism spectrum like her son Zach.
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• A Deaf former employee of a South Florida Costco store won’t be collecting the $775,000 a federal jury awarded her in a discrimination and wrongful termination case.
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• If an adult with a developmental disability gets lost, law enforcement could send out a purple alert. That’s under a proposal that just passed its first House committee stop.
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• Goodman Jewish Family Services’ disabilities department, called Joshua’s Path, has launched a free new program, ‘Zoom Together’ to create structure and community for adults living with intellectual and developmental disabilities during the time of coronavirus closures and scattered re-openings.
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• As coronavirus cases surge in Florida, businesses are responding by requiring face masks. This creates a big problem for people who are Deaf and hard of hearing who rely on lipreading. Volunteers with the Lions Club 35-O have come up with a solution: they’re making see-through face masks.
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• A court will review claims made by people with severe disabilities that Disney doesn’t do enough to make parks accessible. A ruling could force the parks to rethink accommodations.
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• A group home for adults with disabilities has opened in Lake County. It offers residents the independence of their own home with some additional support.
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