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		<title>Districts strain to serve students with multiple, severe disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/06/19/districts-strain-multiple-disabilities-29785/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: School districts across the country are struggling to meet the needs of students who were once predominately isolated in institutions. Among the hard questions districts face: How can schools balance instruction in functional skills and academics for students with severe disabilities, even as they are providing custodial care? Is inclusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does mom with disabilities have right to see her children?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legal battle looms over parental rights of woman injured in childbirth By Maria L. La Ganga in the Los Angeles Times: Abbie Dorn, who conceived triplets following fertility treatments, was injured in childbirth four years ago and now is no longer able to move or speak. Her husband, Dan Dorn, has since divorced Abbie and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tribute to Kevin Pearce, snowboarder with brain injury</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/24/kevin-pearce-28542/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[brain injury]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Down syndrome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Tom Brokaw, NBC News, a feature about American athlete Kevin Pearce, who was considered one of the best snowboarders bound for the Olympics until he was gravely injured in a training run. He sustained a traumatic brain injury, and is now working to regain his speech, vision and physical coordination. Brokaw says Pearce has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psycho Donuts TV debate to air</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/22/psycho-donuts-2-20461/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Jose Mercury News: The owner of a controversial California doughnut shop, &#8220;Psycho Donuts,&#8221; will square off against the head of a leading state mental health organization in a half hour televised debate to be aired on KTVU -TV later this month. The shop in Campbell, CA, features doughnuts dubbed &#8220;Bipolar&#8221; and &#8220;Massive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ontario families fear losing kids with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/07/20/ontario-families-fear-losing-kids-with-disabilities-20409/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Funding shortfall, lack of coordination blamed From the [Toronto] Star: The government ombudsman in Ontario, Canada, has found that some two dozen families are living in fear that they will be forced to surrender custody of their children in order to obtain care for them. The parents say they have been told that there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents finding more support for pregnancies with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/05/12/pregnancies-disabilities-16216/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Washington Times: An informal support network is organizing to assist prospective parents who have received prenatal diagnoses of disabilities. The dilemma of these parents was not widely discussed until last fall, when GOP vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin talked about refusing to abort her son Trig, who has Down syndrome. Parents now say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorials: Baby Kaylee case raises troubling ethical questions</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/04/10/editorials-baby-kaylee-14099/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rushing to judge others &#8212; the Toronto Star. An excerpt: [Jason] Wallace&#8217;s daughter, two-month-old Kaylee, has a rare medical condition and doctors had said she was unlikely to live long. Wallace and his wife Crystal Vitelli hoped their daughter&#8217;s heart could be donated to save the life of another desperately ill infant, one-month-old Lillian. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No place like home for injured veterans</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/10/09/non-profits-veteran-3417/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the New York Times, an extended feature about injured Iraq veteran James Fair and Homes for Our Troops, a Massachusetts-based organization that has built him a house with high-tech accommodations for his disabilities. Fair is blind, has brain injuries, and has lost both arms below the elbows, the result of an explosion. An excerpt: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA to quadruple benefits for brain trauma</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/09/23/va-briain-trauma-3290/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[benefits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press, USA Today: The government is more than quadrupling the monthly payments to some veterans who sustained mild traumatic brain injuries, acknowledging for the first time that veterans with these wounds could struggle to make a living. The change goes into effect in 30 days. New government assessments have concluded that some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spending on veterans exceeds 1947 high</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/07/23/spending-on-veterans-2777/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From USA Today: The federal government is spending more money on veterans than at any time in modern history, surpassing the tidal wave of spending following World War II and the demilitarizing of millions of troops. Expenditures hit $82 billion in 2007, because of the rising cost of health care, the expense of caring for [...]]]></description>
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