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		<title>Exclusion of student with DS from college class sparks concern</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protest continues to mount over a decision by Southern Oregon University to exclude a non-credit student with Down syndrome from an introductory ceramics course. The decision comes almost 35 years after the enactment of federal legislation that opened public school doors to students with disabilities. More than 700 people have signed an online petition urging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia settles ADA suit over confinement of people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/19/georgia-ada-settlement-30335/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AP/New York Times: In a decision that is being hailed as a historic step toward enforcing the rights of people with disabilities, the state of Georgia has reached an agreement with the Justice Department to move many people with mental illness or developmental disabilities out of state psychiatric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More colleges welcome students with intellectual disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/18/colleges-welcome-students-disabilities-30325/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AP/Boston Herald: While college programs for students with intellectual disabilities were almost nonexistent as recently as a decade ago, there are now more than 250 of them spread across campuses in more than three dozen states and two Canadian provinces. Experts say the change has come about in response to demand from the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columnist: Documentary dismantles stereotypes about DS</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/14/monica-david-falcone-30281/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 06:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Herald columnist Lauren Beckham Falcone on HBO&#8217;s documentary about a young married couple with Down syndrome: &#8220;Monica &#38; David&#8221; is more than a love story; it is a reverential, nuanced movie that shows that people with developmental disabilities want the same things everyone wants out of life: Love. Work. Companionship. Independence. These things aren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Monica &amp; David&#8217; premieres Thursday on HBO</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/12/monica-david-hbo-30203/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For couple with Down syndrome, does love conquer all? Newsweek calls this Tribeca-award-winning documentary &#8220;a triumph&#8221; and &#8220;a refreshing and rare story for television.&#8221; It&#8217;s a chronicle of the courtship, marriage, and happily-ever-after of Monica and David, two young people who have Down syndrome. The Washington Post calls it &#8220;a moving affair, a film that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Pennhurst Asylum&#8217; attraction opens in former Pa. institution</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/09/25/pennhurst-haunted-house-30145/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 16:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Philadelphia Inquirer, Delaware County [Pa.] Daily Times, AP, with historic photos from Philly.com: Pennsylvania&#8217;s historic Pennhurst Center, once the focus of landmark litigation that sparked nationwide changes in treatment for people with intellectual disabilities, opened last night as a Halloween-themed haunted house attraction over the protests of disability rights advocates. Advocates had unsuccessfully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House OKs &#8216;Rosa&#8217;s Law&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/09/23/house-oks-rosas-law-30137/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would eliminate term &#8216;mentally retarded&#8217; from federal law Press releases from Sen. Barbara Mikulski, The ARC of the United States: Acting unanimously, the House of Representatives last night approved a bill to remove the terms &#8220;mentally retarded&#8221; and &#8220;mental retardation&#8221; from federal education, health and labor laws. The measure, called &#8220;Rosas&#8217; Law&#8221; in honor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California community stunned by slaying of man with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/08/17/ernie-hernandez-jr-30021/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ernie Hernandez Jr. died of multiple stab wounds; Police say they see no motive in &#8216;a very brutal, a very violent&#8217; attack From KTXL-TV, Sacramento, the Modesto [CA] Bee, KTXL-TV, Sacramento, KCRA-TV, Sacramento: Police in Modesto, California, are investigating the death of  37-year-old Ernie Hernandez Jr., who was stabbed multiple times in the head and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge slashes fine in Iowa abuse case</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/08/10/judge-slashes-fine-in-iowa-abuse-case-29991/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Clark Kauffman in the Des Moines Register, Associated Press: An administrative law judge has ruled that a Texas company accused of abusing and underpaying workers with intellectual disabilities need only pay  a fine of $174,660, or 15 percent of the fine proposed by an Iowa state agency. Either side can appeal the ruling. Judge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;We should close them all&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/22/virginia-institutions-29829/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Institutions endure in Virginia, amid controversy Virginians with disabilities are caught in a system with too many antiquated institutions and too little money for community care, Henri E. Cauvin writes in the Washington Post. The state is one of just 11 that have not closed any institutions. Former Gov. Timothy M. Kaine stirred public controversy [...]]]></description>
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