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The Choice to Parent when Disabled
The first time Sabreena Westphal went to court to try to keep her children, she became a celebrity.
Suffering from Living with cerebral palsy and unable to walk or fully use her arms, she was still determined to care for her two young sons.
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Women in chairs on TV and in Movies
What do you think of able bodied women who act as if they are disabled in films and on TV? What about the lack of characters who just happen to be disabled and the character role they play could just as easily be not disabled?
Pam Sherer wrote, “There just aren’t that many parts that are […]
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What do you think is the most offensive word!
Ouch has been asking readers to vote for the disability-related words that they find most offensive.They asked voters to identify whether they were disabled, not disabled or rather not say. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/yourspace/worstwords/
Some of the words are decidedly British, while others are used just as frequently in the USA and Canada. So I thought I’d pick […]
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