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		<title>More colleges welcome students with intellectual disabilities</title>
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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>Anne Ford: ADA brought disabilities out of the shadows</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/07/26/anne-ford-ada-column-29867/</link>
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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>Advice for parents who wonder: Is it a learning disability?</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/20/advice-for-parents-learning-disability-28380/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lesley Alderman, writing in the New York Times, offers a roadmap for parents who suspect their child might have a learning disability. While schools are legally obligated to assess children for learning disabilities, Alderman says, &#8220;what the law promises and what the schools can realistically provide are sometimes at odds.&#8221; &#8220;The law was created with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student with disabilities wins fight to live in college dorm</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/31/student-college-dorm-fight-26863/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oakland University violated federal law by excluding him, judge rules From the Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Oakland [MI] Press: A federal judge has ruled that Michigan&#8217;s Oakland University has violated the federal Rehabilitation Act by failing to allow a student with a cognitive impairment to live in a campus dorm. An Oakland spokesman said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officials: Ottawa suspension report used skewed data</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/17/ottawa-suspension-report-26741/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[autism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Ottawa [Canada] Citizen: Ottawa school district officials are throwing out a report released this week, saying it contained flawed data. The report concluded that suspensions for students with special needs had risen dramatically in the past year. Superintendent Walter Piovesan said some students with multiple diagnoses had apparently been counted twice. The report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Ottawa, suspensions rising for kids with special needs</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/16/suspensions-special-needs-26730/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Ottawa [Canada] Citizen: Suspensions of students with special needs in the Ottawa public schools have risen by more than 56 percent over the past year, while suspensions for all students dropped almost 30 percent over the same time period. In all, some 16 percent of students with special needs had been suspended over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon announces plans to modify Kindle</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/08/amazon-kindle-accessibility-26330/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Associated Press/MSNBC: Amazon.com Inc. has announced that it will add two features to the Kindle that are intended to make the e-book reader more accessible to users who are blind or have limited vision. The company has come under fire from disability advocacy groups for allowing publishers to opt out of a read-aloud [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columnist: &#8216;Sadly, most people with a learning disability should not have children&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/11/22/columnist-sadly-learning-disability-children-25829/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minette Marrin, writing in the [UK] Sunday Times, reacts to a BBC2 documentary about a couple with Down syndrome who are deciding whether to marry. Marrin&#8217;s sister has an intellectual disability. An excerpt: It is hard enough to be an adequate parent with supposedly normal intelligence. For someone of very low intelligence it is even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pregnant woman with learning disabilities flees to keep baby</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/11/22/learning-disabilities-baby-25814/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the  [UK] Daily Mail, [UK] Times: A pregnant woman with learning disabilities and her fiance have reportedly fled Scotland after social workers threatened to take away their baby at birth, saying the woman was not capable of raising the child. Two months ago, the couple&#8217;s wedding was halted 48 hours before the ceremony in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashionistas with disabilities explore diverse viewpoint</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/11/03/fashion-afficionados-24967/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[arts/music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Once a learning disability meant automatic exclusion from music, clubs and clothes. Meet the people blazing a trail to change that&#8217; From the [UK] Sunday Times (with video): A small but growing cultural movement in the UK is pushing for people with intellectual disabilities to be embraced by the &#8220;hipper pockets of society&#8221; that revolve [...]]]></description>
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