By Staff on 29 December, 2010
Welcome to FWD retrospective week! We’ve taking a look back at some of our favourite posts on a variety of themes over the next week. s.e. smith: Florida Court Ruling: Community-based Services, Not Institutionalisation Forced institutionalisation is not the only denial of rights and autonomy to people with disabilities that people think of as a [...]
Posted in policy, recommended reading
By s.e. smith on 20 December, 2010
I’ve been following the Keeping All Students Safe Act, an important piece of legislation for keeping disabled students safe in school. I’m horrified to learn that the Senate version of the bill, S. 3895, actually includes measures allowing for restraint and seclusion, which I missed when I posted about it earlier this year. (Mea culpa!) [...]
Posted in policy, signal boost | Tagged Congress, education, restraint, seclusion, United States
By abby jean on 17 December, 2010
When I hear people joke about cutting and self harm, I often shake my head with amazement at how little they seem to understand that behavior. I’ve always kind of assumed that if someone went to a hospital seeking help for their own self harm, they’d find people who were better informed and better equipped [...]
Posted in medical practice, mental health, policy | Tagged self harm, self injury, training, UK
By abby jean on 8 December, 2010
s.e. emailed me an alert to this Atlantic post by Derek Thompson about the potential hidden costs of failing to extend unemployment insurance benefits, with a warning that I would likely ‘enjoy’ it. So I clicked through with trepidation. Rightfully so. I’ll excerpt the relevant piece here so you don’t need to reward this nonsense [...]
Posted in blaming, news, policy, poverty | Tagged abby talks policy, wonk time
By Anna on 19 November, 2010
1. Ableism has a dictionary definition; 2. Ableism can be deliberate; 3. Ableism has an academic definition; 4. Ableism can be accidental – this doesn’t make it okay; 5. Ableism kills.
Posted in 101, Ableist Word Profile, deaths, disability activism, identity, normality, othering, policy, politics, relationships, representations, social attitudes | Tagged ableism, definitions
By s.e. smith on 19 November, 2010
Affirmative action has to be among one of the most contentious, controversial, and misunderstood social policies. I encounter all kinds of bizarre attitudes when it comes to talking about affirmative action, not least of which is people who insist on calling it ‘reverse discrimination’ in some sort of backhanded attempt at suggesting it’s just as [...]
Posted in 101, policy, social attitudes, work | Tagged affirmative action, education, preferential hiring
By abby jean on 16 November, 2010
Los Angeles County, where I live, is incredibly diverse, both racially and linguistically. According to the Asian Pacific American Legal Center’s 2008 report on Language Diversity and English Proficiency in LA County (pdf file), more than half of Los Angeles County residents speak a language other than English at home. “The 10 most frequently spoken [...]
Posted in policy, poverty, race | Tagged abby talks policy, language policies, wonk time
By s.e. smith on 12 November, 2010
This post originally appeared on this ain’t livin’. A 1988 amendment to the Fair Housing Act in the United States specifically banned housing discrimination on the basis of ability status. Under the law in the United States, landlords, mortgage lenders, and management companies legally cannot discriminate against people with disabilities when it comes to renting [...]
Posted in accessibility, policy | Tagged accessible housing, housing, United States
By abby jean on 9 November, 2010
As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I spent the weekend in Kansas City with my grandfather, who had experienced an as-yet-to-be-diagnosed health crisis and was in the hospital. (Nothing is dire and he’s expected to make a full recovery and be discharged in the next week or so.) At home in [...]
Posted in justice, policy, politics, poverty | Tagged abby talks policy, wonk time
By s.e. smith on 29 October, 2010
There’s been a significant push towards deinstitutionalisation in the United States over the last few years, in no small part due to the Olmstead decision, a major ruling by the Supreme Court that I discussed in a bit more detail here. Short version: Unnecessary confinement of people with disabilities has been deemed a civil rights violation. [...]
Posted in mental health, policy | Tagged deinstitutionalisation, Georgia, United States
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