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KUALA LUMPUR -- The government proposes to appoint a senator from among the disabled to fill the chair vacated by senator Prof Datuk Dr Ismail Md Salleh (pictured), who died of a heart attack on Aug 27.
Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil told the Dewan Negara on Wednesday that the list of candidates would be submitted to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak for consideration.
She was replying to a supplementary question from senator Datuk Saripah Aminah Syed Mohamed who wanted to know whether the government would recommend another disabled person to fill the vacancy created by the death of Ismail, 61, who was the first disabled person to be appointed a senator.
Dr Ismail, a economist, was the first blind person to be awarded a doctorate.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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