Blink for Disability Rights
Please help my people
The poor and downtrod
I thought we all were
The children of God
God help the outcasts
Children of God
My guess is that the kind of widespread intervention that is being advocated in the actual paper-restricted to “nonambulatory children with profound cognitive disabilities”, but still covering many thousands of children in the US alone-won’t cause that much of an eyeblink. But could this be said of the description above? What does this tell us about how “profound cognitive disability” (or is it the “nonambulatory” bit here)?
Change.org, which I read with regularity, has an autism action section and a human rights action section, both of which occasionally touch on larger issues pertaining to disability rights. (Unsurprisingly, the autism action more than the human rights action.) Is it any wonder that ADAPT advocates were told that the Community Choice Act, a part of President Obama's campaign platform, was "not a priority for this administration?"
nightengalesknd, here is a link to the abstract for the Pediatrics article. Can you find the whole thing? I've read some of Dr. Diekema's other work pre Ashley X, so I totally believe that it says what Spirit of our Time claims it does. Still, it would be nice to see the source material.
The poor and downtrod
I thought we all were
The children of God
God help the outcasts
Children of God
My guess is that the kind of widespread intervention that is being advocated in the actual paper-restricted to “nonambulatory children with profound cognitive disabilities”, but still covering many thousands of children in the US alone-won’t cause that much of an eyeblink. But could this be said of the description above? What does this tell us about how “profound cognitive disability” (or is it the “nonambulatory” bit here)?
Change.org, which I read with regularity, has an autism action section and a human rights action section, both of which occasionally touch on larger issues pertaining to disability rights. (Unsurprisingly, the autism action more than the human rights action.) Is it any wonder that ADAPT advocates were told that the Community Choice Act, a part of President Obama's campaign platform, was "not a priority for this administration?"
nightengalesknd, here is a link to the abstract for the Pediatrics article. Can you find the whole thing? I've read some of Dr. Diekema's other work pre Ashley X, so I totally believe that it says what Spirit of our Time claims it does. Still, it would be nice to see the source material.