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A report from The Washington Post examines a new program in India, where auditors will inspect more than 2,000 public buildings in the country for accessibility issues. Read more
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How do you refer to students with disabilities? NPR’s Steve Drummond dissects the ongoing debates in an article for NPR, writing that figuring out what language to use is “a minefield.” Drummond interviewed National Center on Disability and Journalism director Kristin Gilger about our style guide and the methodology behind it. Read more
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A treatment could one day lessen symptoms of down syndrome, but in a story for The Atlantic, one mother questions whether the practice would be ethical. Read more
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At a rally this week, a group of New York City parents and educators came together to call for changes to services for students with disabilities in the city’s schools, including faster evaluations for children with special needs. This comes after a report released by New York’s education department found many of the city’s students with disabilities are vastly underserved. Read more
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Arizona State University is calling it the “Alternative Format Lab,” where student workers from the school transform textbooks into forms accessible to people with all kind of different disabilities.
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Margaret Lavigne is remembered for her work advocating for people with disabilities, and once spoke about meeting her husband in a long-term care facility. Read more
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NPR’s Terry Gross interviews author Adam Cohen, about his new book “Imbeciles”, an examination of Buck v. Bell, a 1927 Supreme Court case which allowed states to sterilize people deemed “unfit to procreate.” Read more
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A new study from the Ruderman Family Foundation finds that while about a third of people killed by law enforcement officers had a disability, journalists are rarely tackling the disability part of the story in coverage of these incidents. Read more
Critique of the “Ruderman White Paper on the Media Coverage of Use of Force and Disability”
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Sen. Bernie Sanders is accused of using ableist language in a comment he made during Sunday’s Democratic debates:
“If [I’m] elected president, going to invest a lot of money into mental health, and when you watch these Republican debates, you know why we need to invest in mental health.”
The comment has some mental health advocates calling for an apology from Sanders.
Not so much that Bernie made fun of mental illness that got me. Its that the media + Dems thought it was witty, not offensive #CripTheVote
— Finn (@theautismbard) March 7, 2016
bernie's line on mental health was meant to be funny but when you actually live with a mental illness it just feels like being laughed at
— 🛸 (@hothousefIowers) March 7, 2016
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Columbia University students with disabilities say the campus community is “oblivious to disability issues,” in a new story from the Columbia Spectator. Read more
