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Girls with Disabilities’ Event Michigan Disability Rights Coalition DATE: August 13, 14, 15 LOCATION: Camp Cavell, Lexington, Michigan Are you a high school girl with a disability between the ages of 14-19? Would you like to meet other girls with disabilities from across the state of Michigan? Then you need to register TODAY for Michigan’s girls with disabilities event: Her Power ...

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Director Matthew Galkin’s documentary Kevorkian (aired on HBO on June 28th; also available on YouTube; ETA: as codeman38 points out below, the YouTube version is, unfortunately, not closed-captioned) is one of those documentaries that I felt nervous about watching, mostly because I was extremely skeptical that it would be anything other than a massive apologia ...

s.e. smith recently wrote about abuse of autistic students in Pennsylvania and the distressing rise in abusive ‘discipline’ for students with disabilities. Ou mentioned a recent study from Delaware that found that students with disabilities are more likely to be suspended for ‘behavior’ problems than students without disabilities. Ou discussed some easy ways that a ...

NOLA.com – Louisiana renews request for mental health funding from BP The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals is again requesting $10 million from BP to fund ongoing mental health services in communities affected by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, after a request made on May 28 failed to spur any action. In a second letter to Doug ...

jadelennox (DW): How to fight ableism: some easy steps So I thought it might be valuable to gather together some ways in which able-bodied people can do something about ableism in the world. Then, next time a person is feeling frustrated about ableism, and is thinking about doing some signal boosting of, say, some crappy thing ...

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We took The Kid to the base theatre on Wednesday night to see Dreamwork’s How to Train Your Dragon, which is loosely adapted from a YA Book series of the same name. It is a story of a teen boy, Hiccup, who lives in the Viking village of Berk, which ...

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