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MN project part of autonomous vehicles movement for people with disabilities

By Tony Leys for KFF Health News.Broadcast version by Mike Moen for Minnesota News Connection reporting for the KFF Health News-Public News Service Collaboration Myrna Peterson predicts self-driving vehicles will be a ticket out of isolation and loneliness for people like her, who live outside big cities and have disabilities that prevent them from driving. Peterson, who has quadriplegia, is an enthusiastic participant in an unusual test of autonomous vehicles in this corner of northern Minnesota. She helped attract government funding to bring five self-driving vans to Grand Rapids, a city of 11,000 people in a region of pine and birch forests along the Mississippi River. . ....

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Iowans with disabilities ask lawmakers to protect special ed funding / Public News Service

The Iowa Developmental Disabilities Council has a wish list for the new legislative session. The group has just released its public-policy agenda, and is asking state lawmakers to increase funding for educational programs. The council s list includes three main priorities for the New Year: increasing employment opportunities for people living with disabilities, improving community living options, and addressing what the council s Public Policy Manager Carlyn Crowe said she worries could be a dropoff in special educational services for students with disabilities. . ....

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