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Changing Language

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died Aug. 11, made a huge impact on how intellectual disabilities are viewed through the Special Olympics and her other work on behalf of those with intellectual disabilities. This was evident in many of the articles documenting the life of Shriver. The best example of how the perception of people with [...]

Welcome to the Disability & Journalism blog

I’m hoping that this blog will be used to create a dialogue between journalists who cover disabilities and those who are the subjects of those stories. I’ll start things off by sharing my own experiences as the subject of several news stories for newspapers and television. The first time I was introduced to journalism was [...]