Disability, Safety, and Value
Disability, Safety, and Value by Amy Sequenzia This post will
Disability, Safety, and Value by Amy Sequenzia This post will
Are You Paying Attention When Disabled People Write about
Thursday, April 24, was a day that I'd been waiting
Stop Hurting Kids needs all supporters of the Keeping All Students Safe Act to take action and urge members of the U.S. Senate to co-sponsor this bill.
Kelsey Carroll lived with homelessness, self-mutilation, abuse and ADHD. She was a likely high school dropout — until she encountered an education revolution that’s about empowering, not overpowering, teens with emotional and behavioral disabilities. Kelsey’s story, a story of trying to be seen for her potential rather than her past behavior.
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An emerging story in Rhode Island is raising discussion about
Children with disabilities of any kind are not identified in
I stand with Ashley because she is part of our community, she is brave and she survived brutality.I stand with Ashley because I hope to show her, one day, that the joy of belonging to our caring community trumps the memories of pain.
A north suburban special education school bus aide slapped an
Where is the public outrage over the death of Robert
K.J. told police that she said "No" and "Stop" when the three ninth grade boys sexually assaulted her. She had to be physically assaulted to keep from escaping. But, because K.J. and her attackers were labeled with IQs below 50 the sex is considered "consensual".
A man with autism and his caregiver were shot by
This is a moment for us not only to mourn,
A lawyer for the family of a 26-year-old man with
School intern videos abusive physical therapist shoving seven year old with special needs to the ground and saying, "Get down now. I said down. No.Stand up you little b----, stand up."
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick filed a motion to vacate (render null) the 1987 settlement agreement that has permitted the Judge Rotenberg Center to use aversives, including the notorious electric shock GED devices.
An Indiana couple is looking for answers from their daughter’s
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — School officials and Child Protective Services are
The son of a New Mexico woman accused of locking
A 15 year old special education student was gang-raped in
Parents of special needs students say school district covered up abuse.
Listen to the families Abuse in group homes will continue
When lawyers for a watchdog group were combing through state
Posted at 01:55 PM ET, 12/06/2012 Dec 06, 2012 06:55
Patients at California’s board-and-care centers for the developmentally disabled have
Other people have written better articulated articles about the same things I write in this poem. It is hard for me to elaborate beyond the words in the poem. It could have easily been me in some cases, it can happen to any of us.
A 23-year-old Burien woman accused of starving her 2-month-old son
By Chris Roberts, NBCBayArea.com SAN FRANCISCO -- A special education
CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — Teachers hurled insults like "bastard,"
The public must see what the Judge Rotenberg Center is doing. Their experts claimed that the public would not understand the content of this video without "proper context." There is no context that justifies the use of torture against anybody ever. The public has not merely a right but a responsibility to watch this video and share it everywhere.
In June 2005, Mrs Jenkins, who worked at the day