{"id":502,"date":"2012-08-03T21:01:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T21:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/facingdisability.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2017-01-16T22:22:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T22:22:48","slug":"facingdisability-featured-on-abc-7-news-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/blog\/facingdisability-featured-on-abc-7-news-chicago","title":{"rendered":"FacingDisability featured on ABC 7 News Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting things are in the making as the spotlight is on FacingDisablity.com once again, thanks to yesterday\u2019s coverage of our website on ABC 7 News Chicago with Karen Meyer, a long-time reporter on disability issues who has been hearing impaired since birth.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Meyer interviewed founder and president of FacingDisability Thea Flaum and Dr. Elliot Roth, Director of the Brain Injury Program at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, about their plans to create a new website for people with traumatic brain injuries. This site will be modeled after FacingDisability for families facing spinal cord injuries and will, according to Roth, help to fill a major need for information about TBI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s estimated that close to 1.7 million people every year sustain some sort of traumatic brain injury,&#8221; Roth said.<\/p>\n<p>FacingDisability and RIC are currently working to get a grant for the project, which means development of the new website could begin very soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very excited about working with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago to create a new resource for families,\u201d Flaum said.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image below to watch the FacingDisability video segment featured on ABC 7 News Chicago:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wls\/video?id=8759301&amp;pid=null\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-510\" title=\"abc 7 news\" src=\"http:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/abc-7-news.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/abc-7-news.jpg 600w, https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/abc-7-news-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/abc-7-news-120x68.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new website means new ideas and innovation. What information do you think is important to know about SCI or TBI? Please share your comments below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 596px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting things are in the making as the spotlight is on FacingDisablity.com once again, thanks to yesterday\u2019s coverage of our website on ABC 7 News Chicago with Karen Meyer, a long-time reporter on disability issues who has been hearing impaired since birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":236573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[5986,5983,5263,5266,5985,5464,5111,5112,5984,5505,5573],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}