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Follow this link to the KFOR TV news story featuring DRS Commissioner Steve Shelton about the dangers of quiet hybrid vehicles to individuals who are blind because they depend on traffic noise to navigate safely.

Go to the Tulsa World web site to read the recent feature story about DRS employee, Charley Tipps, and his 30-year career helping others with disabilities.

Follow this link to access the feature story which appeared in Capitol News Now. It is part of the Profiles in Courage series. The featured person was DRS employee, Bill Austin.

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Former Division Administrator Mike O’Brien to Serve as Disability Agency Director

The Commission for Rehabilitation Services has selected Dr. Michael O’Brien, a university professor and rehabilitation services consultant from Las Vegas, New Mexico, as the next director of the Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services (DRS). He will replace DRS's current director, Linda S. Parker, when she retires in. Dec. 2008 after 35 years of state service.

O’Brien was previously employed by DRS from 1997 to 2001 as administrator of the Vocational Rehabilitation division.

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18TH ADA Anniversary Celebrated by Disability Advocates Determined to Strengthen Landmark Civil Rights Legislation

July 26 is the 18th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This landmark civil rights legislation prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in employment, public services, public accommodations, transportation and telecommunications.

In Oklahoma, 635,170 people ages five and over have disabilities that may qualify for ADA protection, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s “American Community Survey 2006.” This figure doesn’t include 31,214 individuals living in nursing homes and institutions for the chronically ill.

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OLBPH Gets Heart Starting Knowledge

How much is the price of a heart beat? For most it is priceless, but in certain circumstances it is $1,569. That's how much it cost to buy an Automated External Defibulator (AED).

Thanks to the Oklahomans for Special Library Services (OSLS), the Oklahoma Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped now owns their very own AED.

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Seniors of the Oklahoma School for the Blind and Oklahoma School for the Deaf Graduate

Photo of OSB Senior ClassThe Oklahoma School for the Blind (OSB) proudly announces that the graduating class of 2008 will celebrate commencement on May 21st, at noon in OSB auditorium, 3300 Gibson Street, Muskogee, Okla.

Making this year's class special are Grant Thomas Lewis Breslin, Daniel Ryan Flanagan, Stanley Kyle Hodge, Dayna Michelle Malaer, Alex Christopher Myers, Johnathan Josiah Bartlett Selfridge and Ashley Renee Williams.

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Photo of OSD Senior ClassThe Oklahoma School for the Deaf (OSD) also proudly announces that the graduating class of 2008 will celebrate commencement on May 23, at 10 a.m. in OSD campus auditorium, 1100 East Oklahoma Street, Sulphur, Okla.

The OSD Senior class includes Madison Paige Dazley, Samuel Warren Fewel, William Wesley Moore, Wendi Elizabeth O'Connor, Matthew Tyler Payne, Carol Ann Seward, and Chelsie Lynn Stallings.

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