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Karsten Johansson

Only a few more weeks left to raise money for this year's Autistic and Intellectually Disabled kids program at my gym!

The MOVE 4 Kids Event is a national fundraising event in support of the MOVE by GoodLife Kids physical activity and fitness program for youth with autism and intellectual disabilities, offered by GoodLife Kids Foundation.

If I raise enough in donations to let at least one kid with #autism or other #intellectualdisabilities to use this valuable resource, it'll be awesome. It's a great program for kids who are often left out.

I hope my #infosec colleagues can help me blow this goal out of the water! More info, and donation link here:

goodlifekids.akaraisin.com/ui/

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Karsten Johansson

The MOVE 4 Kids Event is a national fundraising event in support of the MOVE by GoodLife Kids physical activity and fitness program for youth with autism and intellectual disabilities, offered by GoodLife Kids Foundation.

If I raise enough in donations to let at least one kid with #autism or other #intellectualdisabilities to use this valuable resource, it'll be awesome. It's a great program for kids who are often left out.

I hope my #infosec colleagues can help me blow this goal out of the water! More info, and donation link here:

goodlifekids.akaraisin.com/ui/

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Franke James

Echoes of IDD abuses around the world. People with #intellectualdisabilities are so vulnerable. The good news in this report is that the BBC is helping to expose the mocking and bullying...

"An undercover reporter spent almost 7 weeks at Life Wirral in Wallasey & witnessed staff using offensive language to mock pupils for their neurodiversity or learning disabilities, as well as manhandling them into dangerous headlocks."

bbc.com/news/articles/cp6643jd

www.bbc.comChildren mocked and bullied by staff at special needs schoolOne staff member was recorded saying he wanted to drown a pupil “like a kitten” - Panorama undercover.
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Franke James

How did we protect my sister Teresa's Rights and help her regain control of her life when she was wrongly put into a nursing home?

Join us & Community Living Ontario for a Zoom webinar on May 23:
- Stephanie Dickson (Partner, PooranLaw),
- Franke James and Teresa Heartchild (Authors of Freeing Teresa: A True Story about My Sister and Me),
- Nicole Flynn (President, Council of CLO)

Thursday, May 23, 2024, 12:00 to 1:30 pm EDT:
bit.ly/ProtectingRightsandIncr #downsyndrome #intellectualdisabilities

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PhoenixSerenity

When bus driver Hue Sze Wei found out that service 173 that he operates will have a #bus featuring #artwork by #students with #IntellectualDisabilities, the 41-year-old was happy to hop on board with the initiative.

He is no stranger to the invasive stares & rude remarks that members of public sometimes have for those with intellectual #disabilities, as he has a son who attended a kindergarten for autistic children.

channelnewsasia.com/singapore/

CNA‘No need to be harsh’: Public buses feature artwork by students with intellectual disabilities to fight stigmaThe two buses are operated by Tower Transit on service 173 and service 859.
#AsianMastodon#DisabledArtists#TootSEA
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Stuart D Neilson

"Many people with disabilities face stigma, prejudice and discrimination because of their disability... a general pattern was for #MentalHealth conditions, #IntellectualDisabilities and #autism to be judged more negatively than #PhysicalDisability or #SensoryDisability, despite everything else in the scenario being the same. #PhysicallyDisabled #women are judged more negatively than physically disabled #men with respect to having #relationships."

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ESRI · Degree of “ableism” depends on disability, gender and the social contextThis Bulletin summaries the findings from: Timmons, S., McGinnity, F., & Carroll, E. (2023). Ableism differs by disability, gender and social context: Evidence from vignette experiments. British Journal of Social Psychology. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12696 Introduction Many people with disabilities face stigma, prejudice and discrimination because of their disability. Some may experience higher levels of this “ableism” due to negative stereotypes of the type of disability they have or because of other characteristics, such as their gender. Our aim was to test whether the public judge potential forms of discrimination differently depending on an individual’s disability and gender. We were interested in judgements of potential discrimination towards a disabled person and judgements of how people with disabilities behave. Data and Methods A nationally representative sample of 2,000 adults took part in the experimental study online. They read short descriptions of different social scenarios relevant for people with disabilities: a job candidate failing to secure a role; a single parent starting a new relationship; a welfare recipient refusing poorly paid work; a schoolchild being placed on a reduced timetable; and a community resident protesting against people with disabilities being housed in their neighbourhood. The study used an experimental design and participants were randomised to read one of three different versions of each scenario. The descriptions varied by three factors: whether the individual had a disability, the type of disability (e.g., a physical disability or a mental health condition) and their gender. Participants rated how acceptable the action in each scenario was. Although no scenario described an explicit form of discrimination, the logic was that using an experimental design allows any differences in judgements between types of disabilities (or gender) to be attributed to differences in how people perceive the disability in question; judging the same action to be more or less acceptable for someone with a disability than without is a signal for ableist attitudes. At the end of the study, participants reported whether they have a family member, friend or colleague who has a disability, in addition to socio-demographic characteristics like their age, gender and level of educational attainment.   Results The findings show broadly positive attitudes towards people with disability. However, the degree of ableism depended on the scenario and the type of disability. Despite everything else being equal, participants judged it to be more acceptable to restrict the school timetable of a child with autism than one with a speech and language disorder and to not hire a candidate with an anxiety disorder than a candidate with a spinal disorder. They also judged it more acceptable to protest housing former mental health patients in a community than former patients with intellectual disabilities. Gender also mattered for some judgements. Participants judged it to be much more acceptable for a male wheelchair user to start a new relationship than a female wheelchair user, but there was no gender difference when the individual had an intellectual disability. Participants judged it equally acceptable for welfare recipients to refuse poorly paid work, regardless of whether they had a disability. Across all scenarios, participants who reported being close to someone with a disability (e.g., their parent, child or partner) were less include to make ableist judgements, suggesting that being familiar with disabled people and the challenges they face may reduce ableism. Conclusions The findings imply that negative stereotypes of some disabilities may be lead to higher levels of ableist judgements. Although there are differences across the type of disabilities used in the study, a general pattern was for mental health conditions,  intellectual disabilities and autism to be judged more negatively than physical or sensory disabilities, despite everything else in the scenario being the same. The finding that physically disabled women are judged more negatively than physically disabled men with respect to having relationships implies that other characteristics of individuals with disability may exacerbate the challenges they face. The results highlight the need for the further research on the forms ableism can take and to identify groups most at risk. The link between being close to someone with a disability and more positive judgements suggests that increasing the inclusion of disabled people in communities may help to combat ableism.  
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Stuart D Neilson

"An #ESRI survey of 2,000 adults showed higher levels of #ableism towards #MentalHealth conditions, #Intellectualdisabilities #ID and #autism than physical or sensory disabilities...
While they judged potential #prejudice against #DisabledPeople as unacceptable, they viewed it as more acceptable, for example, to reduce the school hours of a child with #autism than a child with a speech and language disorder."
#discrimination #autistic #Ireland

rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0123/

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Stephanie Ortoleva

People with #disabilities have long struggled to access quality #healthcare and research shows that many physicians are ill-equipped to care for this population in the same way as others. disabilityscoop.com/2023/12/15

As a result of the hardships faced, the National Institutes of Health agreed in September to designate people with disabilities as a health disparity population.
#WomenWithDisabilities #WomensHealth #WomensMentalHealth #IntellectualDisabilities #DisabilityPolicy #accessibility

photo of a white, male medical professional dressed in blue scrubs and a white face mask, standing in front of a display screen with blood pressure, pulse, etc. readings
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Stephanie Ortoleva

People with #disabilities have long struggled to access quality #healthcare and research shows that many physicians are ill-equipped to care for this population in the same way as others. disabilityscoop.com/2023/12/15

As a result of the hardships faced, the National Institutes of Health agreed in September to designate people with disabilities as a health disparity population.
#WomenWithDisabilities #WomensHealth #WomensMentalHealth #IntellectualDisabilities #DisabilityPolicy #accessibility

photo of a white, male medical professional dressed in blue scrubs and a white face mask, standing in front of a display screen with blood pressure, pulse, etc. readings
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Franke James

After Tackling ‘R-Word,’ Disability Group Seeks To Erase Stigma Associated With ‘Special’

"With a new campaign, #Special Olympics wants to take back the word “special” and other language that they say has been turned against people with #disabilities.

The international sports org for people with #intellectualdisabilities is rolling out the effort dubbed “Yeah, I am Special” with a pair of NYC billboards and a video voiced by ESPN's Stephen A. Smith"

disabilityscoop.com/2023/12/11 #downsyndrome

Disability Scoop · After Tackling 'R-Word,' Disability Group Seeks To Erase Stigma Associated With 'Special'With a new campaign, Special Olympics wants to take back the word "special" and other language that they say has been turned against people with disabilities.
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Franke James

Anger in #Japan as report reveals children were forcibly sterilised

“The report noted that #sterilisation under the now defunct #eugenics law – which allowed authorities to carry out the procedure on people with #intellectualdisabilities, mental illness or hereditary #disorders to prevent the birth of “inferior” children…”

“The report did not reveal why the law was created, why it took 48 years to amend it or why the victims were never compensated,” Niisato said.” theguardian.com/world/2023/jun

The GuardianAnger in Japan as report reveals children were forcibly sterilisedBy Justin McCurry
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OutOfExile_IDR § Voice ®™️

International Women’s Day Hero of Invisible Disability Rights – Elaine Wilson:

In celebration of International Women's Day, OutOfExile_IDR honors Elaine Wilson, champion of invisible disability rights and the Olmstead Act.  It seems germane, as March is also Developmental Disabilities Month.

During Martin Luther King week, I posted about Lois Curtis, a champion for Invisible Disability Rights (link below).  Lois, togather with another woman, Elaine Wilson, fought all the way to the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) for the right to live in the community, rather than being institutionalized.  Fighting courageously for their freedom, they won the right to freedom for all people with invisible disabilities.  The case is often refered to as the “Brown v. Board of Education” for people with (Invisible) disabilities.

Excerpt below & image of Elaine from:
olmsteadrights.org/iamolmstead

[“Elaine Wilson became seriously ill when she was one years old. She was hospitalized with a raging fever and it was unclear whether she would survive... When the fever finally broke and Elaine was …sent home, ….Elaine had lost some of her early motor function abilities, such as crawling or even sitting up by herself. The doctors assured Elaine's mother that (it) was only a lingering effect of the illness…. Elaine eventually did recover, but very slowly”.[]

In school, Elaine lagged behind other students having difficulties with focus and learning , eventually being diagnosed with an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) attributed to the prolonged high fever as an infant.  Likley, this was the correct diagnosis.

She was reevaluated as a teen upon enrollment at “Gracewood State School and Hospitol” in Georgia.  There, she was diagnosed with an ableist slur containing the “R" word, once used in reference to PEOPLE living with Down Syndrome. Providers believed the only recourse was institutionalization. (I am bitting my tongue and holding back my opinions on the lot of it.)

She would spend about a decade living in institutions (State hospitals) against her will.  Following that, in the 1980s, she would be “ping-ponged" from care homes to hospitals, back and forth for nearly two decades of her life.

“When I was in an institution, I didn't like myself," Elaine says. "I was trapped. . . . I had no hope. I thought, Oh God, Oh God - When am I ever going to leave here?"

Another hero deserving mention on IWD is Sue Jamieson, the Atlanta Legal Aid Society Attorney who brought the case.  Sue and Lois Curtis were joined by co-plaintiff Elaine Wilson, to blaze the path of freedom for countless individuals with disabilities in their wake.

After more than 30 years and 36 psychiatric institutions, at times living homeless and in varous “care homes", Elaine along with Lois Curtis, was victorious and finally free.

The 1997 ruling by Senior U.S. District Judge Marvin H. Shoob said that “… denying the women a community-based life amounted to segregation of people covered by the Americans With Disabilities Act.” Judge Shoob later remarked “They were both so articulate” in regard to the testimony of Elaine Wilson and Lois Curitis.

Elaine passed in 2004 at the age of 53 but, will be forever remembered as a Disability Rights Legend for her resilience, strength and courage.  As part of her testimony, she told the court: “When I was in an institution, I felt like I was in a little box and there was no way out”.

Thanks to Elaine Wilson and Lois Curtis, people with invisible disabilities are afforded the right to live in freedom at home, instead of confinement in a “box", cage or institution, merely because of a health issue.  Thanks and honor to Elaine, Lois and Sue on this International Women’s Day.

“The Brave and the Strong” Lois Curitis – OutOfExile_IDR:
kolektiva.social/@OutOfExile_I

Elaine’s story continued:
olmsteadrights.org/iamolmstead

More on Olmstead and Elaine’s impact:
olmsteadrights.wordpress.com/t

More from disabilityjustice.org:
disabilityjustice.org/olmstead

ADA – Community Intergration for Everyone:
archive.ada.gov/olmstead/olmst

International Women’s Day Image from:
desicomments.com/womens-day/in

IMAGE CW - (eye contact)
Don't forget the ALT text.

#InternationalWomensDay #ElaineWilson #LoisCurtis #Hero #OlmsteadAct #SueJamieson #SCOTUS #freedom #home #gratitude #CommunityIntergration #DevelopmentalDisabilities #IntellectualDisabilities #BrainInjury #TBI #ABI #AcquiredBrainInjury #MentalHealth #disability #InvisibleDisabilityRights #Hero #DisabilityJustice #EmbraceEquity

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@disability

Image is an illustration on a white background in multiple fluorescent colors. Text across the top in celebration reads: “International Women’s Day” with blue, pink and yellow flowers on each side.  In the bottom right, a large pink number “8” sits atop of the word “March" with each letter a different color (orange, yellow, blue, pink and green). From bottom left to center, a silhouette of a woman with long flowing orange, yellow, blue and green hair and face of pink.
Photo of Invisible Disability Rights Hero, Elaine Wilson wearing a light brown and white sweater with straight and angled decorative lines.  Earings hang just below her short dark hair as she looks confident and content with hands resting on one arm of the chair.
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OutOfExile_IDR § Voice ®™️

Student with Downs Syndrome Excluded:

A post by @JDS linked an article about an Alabama elementary school girls basketball team that won the championship in a boys league.  Despite defeating all the boys teams they faced enroute to the top, the league refused to award the trophy to the girls team.  As if this example of “exclusion by bigotry” was not enough to get the juices flowing, the article linked another #disability related story that I couldn’t pass up.  So much for easing back into it.

Morgyn Arnold, who lives with down syndrome, worked as the manager of her Junior high school’s cheerleading team. The cheer team at Shoreline Junior High School in Layton, Utah, chose to take two team photos; one with Morgyn and one without.  The photo excluding her is the one used on social media and printed in the yearbook.  Her name was not even mentioned as part of the team.  Despite all of her “hard work and dedication to the team”, she was excluded .

 According to a relative of Morgyn's,  this “was the second time in three years” that she had “been left out of the yearbook” and had been left off the class list of students by the school in the past.  The school issued a statement on social media that was later deleted.  Is that the “swooshing" of brooms I hear?

I personally have had a similar taste of this elixir of exclusion during my time broadcasting for one university hockey team.  Among the numerous discriminatory and ableist acts I experienced, I too was never mentioned or thanked in anyway by that team.  I felt as if I was a dirty secret or that the team that raved about my broadcasts, was ashamed of me. 

The big difference? Down Syndrome is not one of my disabilities and I was not 14 years old like Morgyn.  Even with my experience, I can’t imagine how she must have felt being subjected to these patronizing, demeaning and deplorable ableist acts of exclusion.

In the mind of the offenders, exclusion, discrimination and bigotry doesn’t have to make sense.  Oftentimes, they assume the people living with invisible, developmental or intellectual disabilities to be clueless or lacking reason and intelligence.  In actuality, this type of behavior and “stigmatude” suggests that perpetrators may be lacking in some of these areas.

For this blatant act of ableism and oblivion to inclusion, Community Intergration and equality I have no cheers, only jeers.
“HIP HIP! Shame on you.”

OutOfExile_IDR #InvisibleDisabilityRights

Link to the article and photos: ibtimes.sg/utah-school-under-f

#EndAbleism #EndBigotry #InvisibleDisabilities #IntellectualDisabilities #DevelopmentalDisabilities #DownSyndrome #CommunityIntergration #inclusion #equality #stigmatude

@disabilityjustice @disability

Illustration of a person appearing to be sitting on an all white surface with legs crossed and head down.  The word “EXCLUSION” in red, grey and black text appears many times, encircling the individual and radiating outward as if isolating the person. Image gg81254030 courtesy of GoGraph.com
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Franke James

Worth reading: Mental Age Theory Hurts: Every adult has the right to grow up. -
By Ivanova Smith
"Have you ever heard the phrase, “That person has the mind of a five-year-old in an adult body?” We often hear the term “mental age of” when medical professionals or news media describe adults with intellectual and developmental #disabilities (#IDD). It is something very harmful that many adults with #intellectualdisabilities have to deal with." spectrumlife.org/blog/mental-a #MentalAgeTheory

Spectrum Life MagazineMental Age Theory HurtsMental Age Theory Hurts - Autistic and Disability Rights Advocate Ivanova Smith explains how mental age theory harms adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Every adult should have the right to grow up.
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saaski

I've been looking for new #books on #neurodiversity and #disability to request or donate to my local library. I've got tons of books on ADHD and autism to go through now, and a few on dyspraxia, but we need more...well...diversity!

Can anyone recommend books on these topics? Preferably new (2021-2023) and written by neurodivergent authours, but all suggestions are welcome. Looking for queer and BIPOC authours, especially. Thanks!

#BPD
#OCD
#OCPD
#Tourettes
#FASD
#Dyspraxia
#Dyslexia
#Dysgraphia
#Dyscalculia
#LearningDisabilities
#IntellectualDisabilities
#PhysicalDisabilities
#MentalIllness
#Trauma
#CPTSD

#ActuallyAutistic #Bookstodon #Fiction #NonFiction #Libraries #Literature #ChildrensLiterature #KidLit

Edited to add a few tags. Kids books and fiction books with ND, disabled, queer, or otherwise marginalized protagonists are welcome, too!

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