In the News - October 2013

A collection of news articles, blogs, stories and information about Down syndrome, disability and special needs, from Down Wit Dat's Facebook page.

Legend:

AUDIO	indicates an audio clip
APPEAL	indicates an online petition or plea
BLOG	indicates a blog post
CASE	indicates a lawsuit or proceedings
EVENT	indicates a scheduled event
LAWS	indicates a new piece of legislation
LINKS	indicates links or resource materials
PHOTOS	indicates photos
POLL	*NEW!* indicates an online survey
STUDY	indicates a study or discovery
THREAD	indicates an online discussion thread
VIDEO	indicates a video or movie

VIDEO	15 Year Old Becomes The Youngest Astrophysicist in the World
BLOG	Don’t Mix Up Empathy and Civil Rights
PHOTOS	People With Disabilities Storm House Building, Demand Boehner Leave Obamacare Alone
	TBINAA Leadership Circle NEEDS YOU!Fall/ Winter 2013/14 Positions. APPLY TODAY!
	Class-action settlement amounts to ‘hush money,’ says family of Huronia survivor
	Autism Group Plans to Protest Autism Research Fundraiser
	Too many people with disabilities live in poverty
BLOG	Guest Contribution from Alana: emotions are hard
BLOG	When we Slip and Slide - A Lament
	Police Violence and People with Disabilities
BLOG	The Problem with “Use Your Words”
BLOG	“Look At Me”
BLOG	Look
BLOG	Who We Are
	Actors With Disabilities In Big Roles? 'We Don't Have A Chance'
	Huronia institution documents to be shielded by privacy laws
	Identities of unnamed dead at Huronia Regional Centre emerge
BLOG	The Space Between
BLOG	this is why i talk about this stuff
BLOG	Feeling the Weight: Some Beginning Notes on Disability, Access and Love
	Despite Pushback, Disney Firms Up New Disability Access Policy
	The Damaging Myth of Normalcy
BLOG	Why Curing Disability Should Not Outweigh Equality
	We're not here for your inspiration
BLOG	Drawing as Non-Compliance
BLOG	Where Do You See Yourself…
BLOG	Epilepsy: Vulnerability Stays
BLOG	Internalizing What Others Believe
	'Breaking Bad's' R.J. Mitte talks disability, bullying and hope
	'60 Minutes'' shameful attack on the disabled
VIDEO	Police: school principal dragged child with Down Syndrome across concrete floor
BLOG	Ollibean Creed
BLOG	The Blurring of Diagnoses
EVENT	Superfest Disability Film Festival Presents "The Dissies"
BLOG	That Mythical, Magical Chromosome
BLOG	Beyond Down Syndrome
BLOG	Awareness, Acceptance, Advocacy, Action
	Exposing quotes that reinforce Down’s syndrome myths: The Truth
VIDEO	Riverside Cop Tricks Autistic Teen into Buying Pot
BLOG	I Will Not Model Compliance For My Child
	Voice surgery sparks ethical debate
BLOG	Why I'm Outraged
BLOG	Feminist disability studies scholar attends the NSGC
BLOG	You Don’t Have to Make Retard Jokes to be Funny! (Why doesn’t everybody know this?)
	'Get your f****** fat a** up and take your own retarded daughter to school': The shocking texts a special needs bus driver sent to a mother after refusing to take her daughter with cerebral palsy to school
BLOG	Feminism and Disability Collide
BLOG	Why the Dissies?
BLOG	Disability History Gets Forgotten Each Halloween
BLOG	Passing and Disability: Why Coming Out as Disabled Can Be So Difficult
	Coming Out As...Disabled
VIDEO	That’s Not My Name – an anti hate crime anthem
BLOG	You are Not Alone
BLOG	Coming of Age in the Shadow of "Rain Man"
BLOG	Keeping it Real
BLOG	Having to Prove Competence
BLOG	Blogging
AUDIO	New Laws Give More Choice to the Developmentally Disabled
BLOG	Sincere Support
	TV Characters With Disabilities On The Rise
BLOG	Did You Know Cripples Can Do Things?: Inspiration Porn and the Ableist Commodification of Disabled Bodies
	How the iPad can turn teaching special ed ‘on its head’
POLL	Disability and Abuse Project
BLOG	About DWD
BLOG	For New Parents...
BLOG	T-21 Blog Hop
BLOG	Cracked Article is Unusual Type of Inspiration Porn
BLOG	The Trouble with Treating “Behaviors”
	Canadians with Intellectual Disabilities Ready, Willing & Able to Create an Inclusive and Effective Labour Market
	Hiding in Plain Sight: Diagnosis Barriers for Autistic Women and Girls
	I was diagnosed with autism at 40
BLOG	Shunning, Shaming, Renaming
BLOG	What Fuels the Helicopter?
BLOG	It's the Night of the Living Stim #LvngStm #FF
BLOG	Announcing the Turn: a blog for parents of kids with disabilities
BLOG	Cartographies
VIDEO	The Shadow Listener
BLOG	Not the Lie Most Expect
VIDEO	APS staffer accused of taping autistic student's mouth shut
VIDEO	Adam Holland Lawsuit: Family Of Man With Down Syndrome Sue For $18 Million After Photo Sparks Meme
VIDEO	Bainbridge school district loses bullying lawsuit
EVENT	Welcome (Back) to the T-21 Blog Hop!
BLOG	T21 Blog Hop:  Disability Acceptance
BLOG	Making a difference… and in good company
BLOG	Top Tips for Parents of a Child with a Learning Disability
BLOG	Guest Post: The Sum of One
BLOG	Humanity
BLOG	31 4 21 A Sonnet
BLOG	Hang on, I’m different
BLOG	Special Needs Round-up: ‘Awareness’ & hurtful comments
BLOG	Down Syndrome Acceptance
BLOG	Myth: All Autistics are Emotionless
BLOG	AUTISM ACCEPTANCE…(But don’t tell anyone).
BLOG	Unacceptable
BLOG	I Am a Human Being
BLOG	Falling Inbetween
BLOG	Freedom
BLOG	Awareness and Advocating to the Reasonable
BLOG	It’s Just Ketchup
BLOG	If You’ve Met One Parent With Asperger’s…
BLOG	Autistic Warriors
BLOG	Bridging The Gap Between Autism Parents and Autistic People
BLOG	The Joy of Being Wrong
BLOG	I am so OK with being wrong…
LINKS	Intersected
	Seven care workers arrested after 'dungeon' found at care home
BLOG	The Next Right Thing
BLOG	We Disabled Folk Have Everything to Offer the World — Except Normalcy
BLOG	Loving My Challenging Life with Down syndrome
BLOG	The Myth of Passing
BLOG	My Sisters. My Allies.
BLOG	November is Autistic History Month
BLOG	To Educators, Therapists & Doctors
APPEAL	Ratify the Disability Treaty
VIDEO	Something Sickening Is Happening To Some Of Our Schoolchildren, And You Probably Have No Idea
	People with a disability deserve the same rights as everyone
VIDEO	David Pitonyak on...Being Needed By The Pack
	The Disability Vote
BLOG	November: Autistic History Month
BLOG	Advocacy
BLOG	How We Discuss Our Children
BLOG	Virtuous Strength
BLOG	A unique stink
BLOG	A Brief History of Down Syndrome, Part 1: How Down syndrome Got its Name
BLOG	A Brief History of Down Syndrome, Part 2: Before John Langdon Down
BLOG	A Brief History of Down Syndrome, Part 3: All In the Family
BLOG	Autistic Hands
BLOG	A Brief History of Down syndrome, Part 4: The Roots of Institutionalization and Eugenics
BLOG	A Brief History of Down syndrome, Part 5: From Education to Eugenics
BLOG	A Brief History of Down syndrome, Part 6: From Eugenics to Extermination
BLOG	A Brief History of Down syndrome - Part 7: Abused, Neglected, Forgotten
BLOG	Outing The Prejudice: Making The Least Dangerous Assumption
	The 5 Scariest Autism 'Treatments'
VIDEO	22 Year Old With Down Syndrome Beaten By The Police For "Bulge In Pants" That Was Only A Colostomy Bag!
BLOG	We Are Not Your Token Humans
	Is boasting about less SEN pupils appropriate for a job advert?
	Debate rages after Brighton Secondary College stops girl with Asperger's syndrome from going on overseas camp
BLOG	Autism is Not Like Cancer
	Stevenage Down’s syndrome pupil left behind on school trip
VIDEO	Strathcona County couple who caged disabled sister jailed (with video)

October was Down syndrome Awareness Acceptance month...

...and saw the re-launch of Down Wit Dat's T-21 Blog Hop.

25 Bloggers participated and made it the best one yet.  The T-21 Blog Hop will take place every month on the 21st, for three days and will continue to feature advocacy posts from across the disability community.

We look forward to November's entries for Autistic History Month.

...And that's the news.  Keep the stories and information coming!