[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:06.88]in VOA Special English.
[00:10.02]Thousands of mourners
[00:12.04]gathered Friday on Cape Cod,
[00:15.69]Massachusetts,
[00:16.86]for the funeral of
[00:18.30]Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
[00:20.40]She started the Special Olympics
[00:23.20]for athletes with mental disabilities.
[00:26.51]She died Tuesday
[00:28.34]at the age of eighty-eight.
[00:31.05]Vice President Joe Biden
[00:33.26]was among guests at the funeral.
[00:35.90]The service included
[00:38.02]a Special Olympics torch
[00:40.17]carried by a mother and son,
[00:42.66]both Special Olympians.
[00:45.36]Eunice Kennedy Shriver
[00:47.36]was the sister of
[00:48.91]President John Kennedy
[00:50.77]and Senator Robert Kennedy.
[00:53.90]Her surviving brother,
[00:55.79]Senator Ted Kennedy,
[00:57.86]is fighting brain cancer
[00:59.86]and did not attend the funeral.
[01:03.04]But what she will be remembered
[01:05.19]for most is her activism
[01:07.88]that grew out of the struggles
[01:10.03]of her mentally retarded sister,
[01:12.68] Rosemary, who died four years ago.
[01:15.83]The first Special Olympics
[01:18.28]took place in Chicago, Illinois.
[01:21.01]About one thousand athletes competed
[01:24.56]in nineteen sixty-eight.
[01:26.91]Today, more than three million train
[01:30.81]in one hundred fifty countries.
[01:33.80]The next World Summer Games are
[01:37.16]in Athens in two thousand eleven.
[01:41.07]When Eunice Kennedy Shriver
[01:43.86]began her work, the disabled
[01:46.54]-- her sister included
[01:48.34]-- often spent most of their lives
[01:51.20]in hospitals or other institutions.
[01:55.12]In the nineteen seventies,
[01:57.66]she worked for passage of the Education
[02:00.56]for All Handicapped Children Act.
[02:04.32]That law guaranteed free
[02:07.18]and appropriate schooling
[02:08.97]for the estimated one million children
[02:11.96]at that time who were not
[02:14.32]receiving an education.
[02:16.52]In nineteen eighty-four
[02:18.96]she received the Presidential
[02:21.06]Medal of Freedom.
[02:22.60]EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER: "Let us not forget
[02:23.78]that we have miles to go to overturn
[02:27.22]the prejudice and oppression facing
[02:31.41]the world's one hundred
[02:32.89]eighty million citizens
[02:34.98]with intellectual disabilities."
[02:37.58]In the last two years,
[02:39.14]more than one hundred forty countries
[02:41.62]have signed a United Nations treaty,
[02:44.72]the Convention on the Rights of Persons
[02:47.45]with Disabilities.
[02:49.47]President Obama signed it last month.
[02:52.99]But there are still "miles to go."
[02:56.21]Andrew Imparato heads
[02:59.00]the American Association of People
[03:01.49]with Disabilities.
[03:03.34]He says the biggest challenge is jobs
[03:07.19]-- the disabled have
[03:09.30]the lowest employment rate
[03:11.25]of any minority group in the country.
[03:14.41]He says they are often
[03:16.99]the ones earning the least,
[03:19.15]and most at risk of losing their jobs
[03:23.05]in the recession. Also, he says
[03:26.68]reforms are needed so disabled people
[03:30.65]do not lose certain health assistance
[03:34.26]by taking a job.
[03:36.70]More than forty million Americans
[03:39.49]have some level of disability.
[03:42.70]An estimated seven and a half million
[03:45.88]have an intellectual disability.
[03:48.87]In nineteen ninety Congress passed
[03:52.10]the Americans With Disabilities Act.
[03:56.14]It requires equal treatment in employment,
[04:00.46]government services, transportation
[04:03.76]and public places like hotels.
[04:07.90]Doris Ray is a director of the
[04:10.99]ENDependence Center of Northern Virginia.
[04:15.02]She says another important effort
[04:18.52]is a bill proposed this year in Congress:
[04:21.97]the Community Choice Act.
[04:25.17]Currently most federal assistance
[04:28.06]for long-term care pays
[04:30.62]for services provided in nursing homes.
[04:34.09]The proposed law aims
[04:36.40]to expand community-based services
[04:39.43]for those who want to
[04:41.27]receive long-term care at home.
[04:44.37]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:47.02]in VOA Special English,
[04:50.07]written by Brianna Blake.
[04:52.06]I'm Steve Ember.
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