The first sign may be that your bright child is having trouble reading, or organizing school assignments, or concentrating on homework. Your child may be frustrated with school, and you may find yourself frustrated with what looks like a lack of effort. And a teacher may also notice that something is amiss.
Scuba diver won’t let disability deter his underwater pursuits
About 30 feet deep on Molasses Reef off Key Largo, Greg Rodriguez chased a barracuda, temporarily eluding his scuba-diving buddy, Jim Elliott. When Rodriguez and Elliott emerged about 45 minutes later, they were chuckling.
A new Chicago census initiative is working to ensure that people with disabilities participate in the 2010 census, a move that could bring new sources of revenue to the financially strapped city.
San Diego transit authorities want to tighten their monthly pass policies for the disabled, concerned that able-bodied bus and trolley riders are abusing the program.
Professor and author Christopher M. Fairman [“The case against banning the word ‘retard,’ ” Outlook, Feb. 14] made good arguments about the limits of language to effect change in behavior and attitude, as well as about the nuanced ways in which words such as “retard,” “queer” and “gay” can carry multiple meanings, some of which intend no insult or humiliation.
Long before Rahm Emanuel, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh made the word fodder for political controversy and late-night punch lines, a movement was underway to eliminate it from everyday conversation.
The head of a disability-rights network said the slaying of Jennifer Daugherty could qualify as a federal hate crime under a law recently revamped to protect people with disabilities.