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		<title>Obama honors girl who inspired &#8216;Rosa&#8217;s law&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/11/obama-honors-girl-who-inspired-rosas-law-30168/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama celebrated the signing of &#8220;Rosa&#8217;s Law&#8221; at an East Room ceremony honoring of 9-year-old Rosa Marcellino, the Maryland girl with Down syndrome who was its inspiration. The law ends the use of the terms &#8220;mental retardation&#8221; and &#8220;mentally retarded&#8221; in federal health, education and labor laws. &#8220;It&#8217;s so inspiring to have her here,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hingsburger on &#8216;R-word&#8217;: &#8216;Tremble when you say it&#8217;</title>
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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>Jennifer Aniston draws fire for saying &#8216;retard&#8217; on TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times &#8216;Ministry of Gossip&#8217; blog, US Magazine, press release from the National Down Syndrome Society: Actress Jennifer Aniston used the word &#8220;retard&#8221; during a television interview Thursday, drawing criticism from disability advocacy groups. Appearing on Live with Regis and Kelly (video here), Aniston was discussing a recent Harper&#8217;s Bazaar photo shoot [...]]]></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>New Jersey law changes references to people with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/08/17/new-jersey-law-change-30030/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Thegovmonitor.com: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie this week signed legislation that removes outdated and demeaning descriptions of people with disabilities from state law and regulation. The bill eliminates such terms as &#8220;mentally retarded&#8221; and &#8220;feeble-minded,&#8221; which are considered offensive by many. Replacing them are terms like &#8220;intellectual disability&#8221; and &#8220;developmental disability.&#8221; The new law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents of student with DS seek removal of school textbook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Brockton, Mass., Enterprise News: The parents of a seventh grade student with Down syndrome are trying to get their Massachusetts school district to stop using a science textbook with language they consider offensive. The book, a standard seventh-grade science text in Bridgewater Middle School,  uses the term &#8220;mental retardation&#8221; and characterizes Down syndrome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosa&#8217;s law regarded as non-controversial</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/23/rosas-law-called-non-controversial-29632/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 01:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bipartisan measure would take &#8216;retarded&#8217; out of federal lexicon The Hill reports as non-controversial a bill that would eliminate all references to the terms &#8220;mental retardation&#8221; and &#8220;mentally retarded individual&#8221; in federal law. Known as Rosa&#8217;s Law, the bipartisan measure will be marked up in the Senate Health, Education and Pensions Committee this week. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;What would you do?&#8217; Reactions to staged abuse of clerk with DS</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/20/what-would-you-doabuse-of-clerk-with-ds-29593/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 06:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a segment of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;What Would You Do?&#8221; that aired Wednesday, customers in a Brooklyn grocery store found themselves trapped in a checkout line behind rude shoppers who berated a bagger with Down syndrome. The customers didn&#8217;t know that the clerk and the rude shoppers were all actors. Hidden cameras recorded everyone&#8217;s reactions to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho removes &#8216;retarded&#8217; from state statutes</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/08/idaho-removes-retarded-29081/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AP/Idaho Statesman: Idaho Gov. C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otter has signed legislation that removes words like &#8220;retarded,&#8221; &#8220;lunatic&#8221; and &#8220;idiot&#8221; from state laws, saying the words are just as hurtful as racial slurs. Bill sponsor Sen. Les Bock, D-Boise, said he didn&#8217;t realize how pervasive the slang word retarded is until he mentioned the bill in [...]]]></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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