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Know any children artists out there?  Specifically children with one or more parents with a disability? Well, The National Center for Parents with Disabilities (a program of Through the Looking Glass) is calling for original art entries from children aged 5-11 depicting their favorite family activity.  Each entry should include an “artist’s statement”, one or two sentences about one thing …

If you’re like millions of other procrastinating Americans and are just now getting around to doing your taxes, there is help available.  Here are a few IRS features that can help you prepare and file your tax return. Free Online Tax Preparation and e-Filing The IRS offers a service called Free File that helps you prepare and file your tax …

You’ve heard of a win-win situation, right?  Well this is a win-win-win-win situation.  How can you not like it? Let’s back up a minute and start with the need, the gap to be filled, the problem to be solved.  Broadband skills and access are no longer just a nice thing to have.  Rather they are essential to working life in …

Pete Eckert is totally blind and he is a visual artist–a photographer.  In 2008 he competed head-on with sighted photographers and won Grand Prize in the Artist Wanted: Exposure 2008 international photography competition. How does he do it?  Pete explains that he “sees” using sound.  “Sound gives an image just like light gives an image. . . My artwork is …

The World Institute on Disability (WID) has released a second DVD in the series called Access to Medical Care.   The new release,  Access to Medical Care: People with Developmental Disabilities, is a 25-minute DVD that educates medical providers, families and individuals about health care access and disability sensitivity.  WID is also offering an online training program called MAP to …

It’s fitting that the Ed Roberts Campus (a tribute to the late Ed Roberts, one of the primary leaders the Independent Living Movement) would itself represent yet another milestone in that movement. For the first time, a building specifically designed to be a national and international model of integrated and accessible service delivery for people with disabilities brings together under …

CTP’s Executive Director, Joan Breves’s relative has just published Money Smart, a better approach to money management. The author Ted Hunter has offered CTP 25% of sales if you buy his book thought this link (until November 12th). Neil Jacobson currently CEO of Abilicorp and co -founder of CTP as well as retired Senior Vice President of Wells Fargo Bank …

Update – This job has been filled. Computer Technologies Program (www.ctpberk.org) is seeking a part time lab instructor for its Network and Technical Support program. CTP is a 35 year old non-profit organization that primarily serves adults with disabilities. The Job The lab instructor (LI) is responsible for overseeing technical lab classes. At the beginning of each class the LI …

First CTP was a few classrooms at the old Vista College, now known as Berkeley City College. Then came our own building on Milvia Street, until it was judged to be seismically unfit. The image of flying wheelchairs and canes strewn in the rubble might make for a good horror movie, but that’s no way to teach computer skills. From …

Linda Pratt, a member of CTP’s board of directors, contributed a great deal of personal time, technical skills and recruited a volunteer to develop a great new part of CTP’s IT infrastructure. CTP asked Linda to describe the new systems and why it is important to CTP’s work. Here is what she sent us. -Alex In response to the detailed …