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THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- Texas Rush was nominated for and received the Lex Frieden Award – TOPS (Special Needs Program).
In the Non-Profit category, Texas Rush was recognized for our TOPS program and staff member, Keith Johnson.
The Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities is proud to announce that the annual employment awards have been renamed after disability rights champion and independent living movement leader Lex Frieden, one of the architects of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Frieden is the UT Chancellor’s Health Fellow on Disability, a professor of biomedical informatics and rehabilitation at UT Health Science Center at Houston and director of the Independent Living Research Utilization Program (ILRU) at TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital.
Watch the video at www.texasrush.com.
