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		<title>Study: Lack of characters with disabilities on TV</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/08/study-disabilities-tv-30160/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Hollywood Reporter, IAMPWD.org: A new report on minority representation on broadcast television finds that scripted characters with identifiable disabilities will represent only one percent of all scripted series regular characters  on the five broadcast networks this fall. That&#8217;s just six characters out of 587. Of those six, only one is played by an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Temple Grandin&#8217; a big Emmy winner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Yahoo.com (with video), Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly: The HBO biopic &#8216;Temple Grandin&#8217; was among the big winners in this year&#8217;s Emmy awards contest, sweeping 7 awards including best actress for Claire Danes, best directing for Mick Jackson, and best made-for-television movie or miniseries. The project portrayed the early life of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emmy exec: &#8216;Down Syndrome Girl&#8217; will not air on awards shows</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/08/24/emmy-ceo-down-syndrome-girl-30079/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press release from the National Down Syndrome Congress: John Shaffner, chairman and CEO of the Academy of Television Arts &#38; Sciences, has pledged that the Emmy-nominated song &#8220;Down Syndrome Girl&#8221; will not be aired on the primetime Emmy telecast or the broadcast of the Emmy&#8217;s Creative Arts awards. Shaffner&#8217;s promise came in response to a [...]]]></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>Advocacy group protests Emmy nod for &#8216;Down Syndrome Girl&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/08/19/advocacy-group-protests-emmy-nod-for-down-syndrome-girl-30052/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Family Guy musical number was nominated in &#8220;Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics&#8221; category Source: Letter from the National Down Syndrome Congress Members of the Self Advocate Council of the National Down Syndrome Congress this week sent a letter protesting the Emmy award nomination given recently to &#8220;Down Syndrome Girl,&#8221; a musical number that appeared this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Actors share disabilities with their characters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 05:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From National Public Radio: Guest-starring in a recent episode of the Fox sitcom Glee, actor Zach Weinstein played a high school student who was paralyzed in an accident. Unlike many actors who play people with disabilities, Weinstein actually has the disability his character displays on TV. Michael Patrick Thornton, who appears in a wheelchair on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Monica &amp; David&#8217; takes Tribeca&#8217;s top documentary honors</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/30/monica-david-takes-tribeca-prize-29476/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the BBC, Washington Post, Miami Herald: Monica &#38; David, a documentary about the romance and marriage of two young adults with Down syndrome, has won the top documentary prize at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival. The film was directed by the female subject&#8217;s cousin, Miami&#8217;s Alexandra Codina, and was chosen from among 30 documentaries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paralympic Games set records, open doors</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/23/paralympics-open-doors-28877/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Toronto Star: Canadian athletes shattered records at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, bringing home 19 medals, ten of them gold. The unrivalled hero of the games was Canadian alpine skier Lauren Woolstencroft, whose five gold medals set a new record for female athletes in the Winter Paralympics. Canadian athletes said they were helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV shows feature characters with Asperger&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/03/01/tv-shows-aspergers-28660/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Sepinwall, [Newark] Star-Ledger NBC&#8217;s new drama &#8220;Parenthood,&#8221; premiering Tuesday night, features a family whose son is diagnosed with Asperger&#8217;s syndrome. It&#8217;s among an increasing number of television shows that are trying to depict characters with the disorder, and is one of the first to acknowledge the diagnosis. An excerpt: &#8230; the storyline &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This time, a &#8216;Family Guy&#8217; actor agrees with Palin</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/25/family-guy-actor-agrees-with-palin-28593/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lisa de Moraes in the Washington Post: Actor Patrick Warburton, who voices a character in &#8220;Family Guy,&#8221; told TV critics Wednesday that he objected to the show&#8217;s recent gag about Sarah Palin. &#8220;I know it&#8217;s satire but, personally, that [joke] bothered me too,&#8221; Warburton said on a conference call to promote his other primetime [...]]]></description>
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