A collection of news articles, blogs, stories and information about Down syndrome, disability and special needs, from
Down Wit Dat's Facebook page. These are from May 2014.
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 |
| IMAGE | indicates a graphic, image or comic |
| LAWS | indicates a new piece of legislation |
| LINKS | indicates links or resource materials |
| PHOTOS | indicates photos |
| POLL | indicates an online survey |
| POST | indicates an advocacy statement made through social media |
| PRESS | indicates a press release |
| QUOTE | indicates a meaningful quote |
| STUDY | indicates a study or discovery |
| THREAD | indicates an online discussion thread |
| VIDEO | indicates a video or movie clip |
| VLOG | indicates a video blog post |
| BLOG | Why I Fight For Inclusion For My Kid (and Your Kid, Too)
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| Learning With Disabilities: One Effort To Shake Up The Classroom
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| Facebook Is Throttling Nonprofits and Activists
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| IMAGE | "Being complicit in ableism is what allows it to continue. If this isn't about you, then..."
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| BLOG | Scared? Me? Kind Of. Its Open Season on the Disabled.
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| Sheltered Workshops
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| ‘It wasn’t fair’: Why an Ontario school isn’t letting a sick girl go to prom
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| College Access for Students with Intellectual Disabilities is in jeopardy
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| BLOG | The neurodiversity fence
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| IMAGE | "Disability deserves the same attention as other civil rights struggles."
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| It's time to stop using the 'R' word
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| POLL | AWN Survey for Autistic Women
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| IMAGE | Your favorite pages are not gone they are just hidden
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| IMAGE | One Example of CBE...
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| IMAGE | “I don't even understand why it's surprising that when a child is told persistently, and by..."
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| BLOG | Putting the "Health" Back in "Mental Health"
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| BLOG | Motherhood: Now and Zen
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| BLOG | Forgetting not an option: Horrors at Willowbrook State School remembered at annual CSI lecture
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| VIDEO | Sh*t People Say To Non-Verbal Peeps
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| IMAGE | “Functioning Labels Are: Arbitrary, Ableist, Limiting, Meaningless, Dehumanizing..."
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| BLOG | You Are Not Alone
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| BLOG | I never meant for you to know
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| BLOG | Just Another Typical Comedian, Daniel Tosh
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| BLOG | “Rethinking Your Beliefs About Autism”
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| EVENT | The T-21 Blog Hop - May 2014 - Advocacy Rewind
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| BLOG | "She Won't Get Anything Out of It" and Other Mainstreaming Blunders
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| IMAGE | "Speak up. If it doesn't come from us, it comes from people who don't have an intellectual..."
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| BLOG | Autism, Competence, Adding Kemal to Mustafa
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| BLOG | Picking Rocks
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| BLOG | On beauty
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| BLOG | What not to say
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| BLOG | DISABILITY AS AN IDENTITY
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| BLOG | You Are Not Alone
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| BLOG | "I Don't Care About You": Thoughts on Accessibility and Disability Sensitivity
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| BLOG | A different kind of Autism Awareness: We are here, Be Aware.
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| BLOG | Privilege
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| 7 Reasons Why an Autism Advocacy Organization Would Oppose the Combating Autism Act
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| BLOG | When He Grows Up
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| BLOG | Proud To Be A Grad School Drop-Out: #AutismPositivity2014
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| BLOG | Intellectual Disability and a Path to Overcoming Stigma: My Conversation with Sam
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| BLOG | Pass The CRPD ... For Spite
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| BLOG | I Am More Than An Empty Wheelchair: Speaking Up Against Ableism
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| BLOG | 4 Lessons Peacocks Can Teach Us About Advocacy
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| BLOG | My Plan B is… Stick to Plan A!!
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| BLOG | I’m Not Here for Your Inspiration, and Neither is Michael J Fox
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| IMAGE | "Inclusive: It does NOT mean "If you want to participate, conform to the cultural/social..."
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| Cops: Autistic student abused with push pin
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| APPEAL | Withdraw the police caution given to my 19-year-old with Downs Syndrome.
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| BLOG | The Narcissistic Parent of the Special Needs Child
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| BLOG | "Autistic people are significantly more likely to be bullied and stigmatised than they are to..."
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| BLOG | Birds and why they're sometimes flipped
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| BLOG |
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| BLOG | Flash Blog: Autism is Not a Crime
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| BLOG
| Statement on Isla Vista Murder Incident
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| A Revolutionary Approach to Treating PTSD
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| IMAGE | "Aspergers is:" "Not having friends, Being withdrawn, A lack of empathy and..."
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| Councillor accused of complaining that voter with learning difficulties 'shouldn't be voting' in local elections
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| VIDEO | Children of Darkness
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| Autism, allyship and Autism Speaks
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| BLOG | VIDEO: School cop fired for beating child with cerebral palsy, dumping him out of wheelchair
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| BLOG | “Are You Even Capable of Running This Program?” : A Response by Sonia Boue.
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| Sexuality
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May also saw another edition of the T-21 Blog Hop...
Thanks to all who participated.
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. See you on June 21st!
...And that's the news. Keep the stories and information coming!
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