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		<title>Heroes? Victims? Or just plain parents &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do parents of kids with disabilities deserve admiration? Pity? Are they courageous? Self-important? Preachy? The public debate on these weighty topics has been raging for the past month over at the New York Times&#8217; Motherlode blog site, and shows no signs of letting up. It all started when Amy Julia Becker wrote a guest blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kathy Ireland calls for end to underfunding of DS research</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/11/kathy-ireland-down-syndrome-research-30181/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing on the AOLnews website, supermodel and lifestyle guru Kathy Ireland says funding for research into Down syndrome has been consistently reduced until it now accounts for less than 0.01 percent of the National Institutes of Health&#8217;s annual research budget. This must change, says Ireland. Her niece Polly has Down syndrome. We are on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hingsburger on &#8216;R-word&#8217;: &#8216;Tremble when you say it&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/08/24/hingsburger-tremble-30072/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disability advocate Dave Hingsburger uses Jennifer Aniston&#8217;s recent gaffe (calling herself a &#8220;retard&#8221; during a televised interview)  as an opportunity to examine the word&#8217;s implications in modern society. His conclusion: The word is an unacceptable attack on a group of people who have historically been marginalized, stigmatized and oppressed. An excerpt: The people who &#8216;ARE&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial praise for pruning outdated terms from NJ statutes</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/08/19/editorial-nj-statutes-30045/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial writers at the [Bergen County, NJ] Record offer praise for a new state law that removes outdated terminology like &#8220;mentally retarded,&#8221; &#8220;feeble-minded&#8221; and &#8220;physically or mentally defective&#8221; from New Jersey law and rulebooks. An excerpt: Talk about a revolution. Within little more than a generation, we&#8217;ve advanced from assuming lesser futures for citizens with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Harkin: ADA is about &#8216;the right to live in the world&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/26/tom-harkin-ada-is-about-the-right-to-live-in-the-world-29886/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tom Harkin in Politico.com: &#8230; at its heart, the ADA is simple. In the words of one activist, this landmark law is about securing for people with disabilities the most fundamental of rights: &#8220;the right to live in the world.&#8221; It ensures they can go places and do things that other Americans take for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne Ford: ADA brought disabilities out of the shadows</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When her now-adult daughter was born, Anne Ford writes at AOL.com, society&#8217;s answer to the problems of people with disabilities was to avoid acknowledging them.  That all began to change when President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act twenty years ago, she says. In that moment, &#8230; we as a country told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Georgia must end seclusion, restraints</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/06/09/commentary-georgia-restraints-29704/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 05:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ruby Moore and Eric Jacobson call on Georgia to end seclusion and restraint in the state&#8217;s schools and turn instead to the use of positive behavioral supports (PBS). Moore and Jacobson urge the state&#8217;s board of education to strengthen a proposed new rule by adding requirements for oversight, data collection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As LA drops summer special ed for adults, a teacher objects</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/20/la-drops-summer-special-ed-29620/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By columnist Dennis McCarthy in the Los Angeles Daily News: The Los Angeles Unified School District has cancelled its summer classes for adults with developmental disabilities for the first time in 20 years, thanks to the budget crisis. Veteran special ed teacher Robert Zazula, who will be laid off for the summer as a result [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op-ed: Daughter is &#8216;worth every tear&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/05/daughter-worth-every-tear-29543/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 16:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Santorum, former Republican senator from Pennsylvania and Fox News contributor, celebrates his daughter&#8217;s second birthday with an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Isabella has Trisomy 18, and has survived despite the dire predictions of doctors and experts. Santorum says Bella&#8217;s life may not be long, but &#8220;she is worth every tear.&#8221; An excerpt: Being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columnist: Applause for mom who took stand againt DS jokes</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/11/frankie-boyle-29165/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the [UK] Sunday Times, columnist India Knight hails a mother of a 5-year-old with Down syndrome who challenged Scottish standup comedian Frankie Boyle over a comedy routine. Boyle, who is known for his crude humor, referred to &#8220;Mongoloids&#8221; who have bowl haircuts and are &#8220;destined for an early death&#8221;. He recently piloted a [...]]]></description>
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