Posts filed under: intellectual disability

May 27, 2010
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
Families rally to save special ed teacher threatened by budget cuts
The rumblings started in March. Parents of adults with disabilities heard that state budget cuts could affect the staff in a program they love.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, education, intellectual disability, public policy

May 23, 2010
The Hill
Bipartisan Senate bill aims to take 'retarded' out of federal lexicon
Senators are preparing to eliminate all references in federal law to the terms “mental retardation” and “mentally retarded individual.”
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Filed Under: intellectual disability, language, public policy

May 20, 2010
Michigan Radio
Two Cities: Are Charters Opting Out of Special Ed?
One of the first things you notice when you step inside Banneker Elementary in New Orleans is the elevator. You can't miss it: It's on your left, just past the security guard. And as Cheryllyn Branch will tell you, that is one well-worn elevator. Branch is principal of Banneker Elementary, one of the few remaining traditional public schools in the city.
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Filed Under: education, intellectual disability, K-12, learning disability

May 6, 2010
WLS-TV (Chicago)
Photos show challenges people with disabilities face
"The Plight of the Mentally Disabled" is a unique exhibit that shows the lives of people with disabilities in foreign countries. Many people with disabilities are often abandoned and ignored by society. Photojournalism captures the reality of how they are perceived in their country. Roosevelt University's Gage Gallery features walls of photographs by Eugene Richards of people with mental and physical disabilities from several countries.
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Filed Under: arts, developmental disability, intellectual disability

March 26, 2010
The Orange County (Calif.) Register
Reforms on way for immigration detainees
A mentally retarded Costa Mesa man has been held by immigration officials for nearly five years without a chance to challenge his detention, the American Civil Liberties Union said Friday.
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Filed Under: criminal justice, intellectual disability, psychiatric disability

March 23, 2010
The Houston Chronicle
Workers arrested kept jobs at Texas state schools
Employees at state-run centers who were arrested for felonies such as child rape and murder continued on the payroll to care for the mentally disabled, according to criminal fingerprint checks.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, intellectual disability, long-term care, public policy

March 19, 2010
Austin (Texas) American-Statesman
Report: State facility for people with disabilities lacks psychiatrists, trained therapists
Nine months after Texas and the U.S. Department of Justice entered into a settlement to improve health care and more quickly investigate reports of abuse and neglect at state institutions for people with mental disabilities, the facility in Corpus Christi doesn't have staff psychiatrists, has therapists who are ill-equipped to work with people with complex needs and doesn't have a clear zero-tolerance policy for abuse and neglect.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, housing, intellectual disability, long-term care

March 12, 2010
KTKA-TV (Topeka, Kan.)
Disability advocates aim to get 'unlawful' cuts reversed
Many disability advocates claim the state has made some unlawful budget cuts to some of its most vulnerable people. Attorneys for Interhab, a company that provides in home developmental disability service, filed a petition Friday to reverse the cuts made by the state. More than 2,000 children and adults with disabilities are affected by the $10 million that was taken away.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, employment, housing, intellectual disability, public policy

March 8, 2010
The Journal News (White Plains, N.Y.)
Movement presses to drop 'retardation' from clinical terminology
Ginese is among a growing number of people across the nation working to halt use of the terms "mental retardation" and "mentally retarded" and replace them with the terms "intellectual disability" and "an individual with an intellectual disability."
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March 1, 2010
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Tim McGuire: Sarah Palin: An oversensitive mom
The media and Sarah Palin need to chill out. Media commentators should help Palin find reasonable ground on the topic of Down syndrome. Most recently, Palin has fired shots at the "Family Guy" TV show for mocking her Down syndrome toddler, Trig.
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Filed Under: intellectual disability, language

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