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		<title>Touchdown video seen round the world</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/14/touchdown-video-30308/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Down syndrome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Kelley, Seattle Times columnist, reflects on Ike Ditzenberger, the 17-year-old high school football player with Down syndrome whose touchdown run was captured on video and circulated around the globe. At last count, the Youtube clip documenting Ike&#8217;s effort had gotten more than 2.36 million views. Writes Kelley: Ditzenberger&#8217;s touchdown, which he accomplished with the [...]]]></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>Does special ed &#8216;take from regular kids&#8217;? Readers react</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/06/08/does-special-ed-take-from-regular-kids-29693/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Letter writers to the Los Angeles Times take issue with LA school superintendent Ramon C. Cortines&#8217; assertion that special ed funding takes services away from &#8220;regular kids.&#8221; The comment came in an article about the district&#8217;s plans to cut 200 special ed classes. Said one writer: Perhaps Cortines would prefer we revert to the not-so-distant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complaint box: Whatever happened to tact?</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/06/08/complaint-box-tact-29688/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cerebral palsy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poet Jennifer Bartlett writes in the New York Times City Room blog about her experiences with rude people who feel free to comment on her disability. Bartlett has cerebral palsy. An excerpt: Bus riders have referred to me as mentally backward (while I was reading James Joyce), and waitresses routinely ask my companion what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writer with disability says unsolicited advice isn&#8217;t welcome</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/05/columnist-with-disability-unsolicited-advice-29531/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 05:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gwynneth VanLaven, writing in the Washington Post, says her visible disability makes her a target for strangers who offer well-meaning but unwanted advice in a futile attempt to &#8220;fix&#8221; her. To them, she says, she represents their worst fears: &#8220;I am vulnerability incarnate.&#8221; VanLaven, who was hurt when she was hit by a car in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;American Idol&#8217; contestant builds awareness for Tourette&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/23/american-idol-tourettes-29303/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freelancer Anne Miller, writing in the Washington Post, says &#8216;American Idol&#8217; contestant Dave Pittman is part of of a rising movement of people with Tourette&#8217;s syndrome who are putting a public face on the disorder. Pittman, a singer from Arkansas, performed a four-minute audition on national television earlier this year but failed to make it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Narrators, characters with autism add something extra</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/11/book-review-autismr-29147/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As people with autism spectrum disorders take a more prominent place in society, Los Angeles Times reviewer Sonja Bolle finds a crop of books for kids and young adults that explore their world. These books can help, she says, by perhaps giving us all a better sense of the variety of human experience. Among her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paralympic Games called &#8216;best ever&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/22/paralympic-games-best-ever-28830/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Vancouver Sun, [UK] Daily Mail: As the 2010 Paralympic Games concluded in Whistler Village this weekend, organizers said the event set new records for attendance and visibility around the world. &#8220;What a blast we&#8217;ve had,&#8221; Sir Phil Craven, the president of the International Paralympic Committee, shouted out to cheering crowds at the closing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shriver stresses humanity of people with intellectual disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/19/shriver-humanity-28779/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Washington Post profile of Tim Shriver, writer Manuel Roig-Franzia examines the Special Olympics chairman&#8217;s campaign to discourage language that makes fun at the expense of people with intellectual disabilities. Shriver has received apologies from President Obama, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Bill O&#8217;Reilly (sort of) for &#8220;colloquial jabs about &#8216;retards&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK watchdog: TV channels have the right to air &#8216;R-word&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/11/uk-watchdog-offensive-content-28716/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [UK] Telegraph: An independent UK media regulator has rejected a request for sanctions against a leading television channel for using the word &#8220;retard&#8221; in a reality show, saying the comment was covered by European human rights protections of free speech. The complaint was brought by the mother of two children with disabilities, after [...]]]></description>
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