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Friday, June 29, 2012

Social media helping autistic children ‘navigate the world’

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From The Globe & Mail in Canada: Jordan Hilkowitz (pictured) is layering household products into a beaker for his latest science e...

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Guatemala Launches Central America’s First Braille Newspaper

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From LatinaLista : GUATEMALA — “You don’t need to see to be able to read” was the message Guatemala sent to the world last month when ...

Who Stole Helen Keller?

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from Common Dreams: By Ruth Shagoury (Author bio: Ruth Shagoury teaches new and veteran teachers at Lewis & Clark College ...

Thursday, June 14, 2012

In Ohio, guerrilla marketing for 'Crippled Girl' comedian results in arrest

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From The Cincinnati Enquirer : Forest Thomer walked up to a small group of people at a May 23 Party in the Park event, poi...

Sprout Film Festival acquires "The Eighth Day" starring actor with Down syndrome, Pascal Duquenne; will be available for purchase through sproutflix

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From Sprout Film Festival : Sprout Film Festival has received the rights to sell the award-winning film, The Eighth Day ( Le Huitie...

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Golfer Casey Martin Returns to U.S. Open, Where a Cart Is Waiting

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From The NY Times : SAN FRANCISCO — The symbolism and juxtaposition were not lost on Casey Martin on Monday when he returned to the...

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Saturday, June 9, 2012

'Little People, Big World' sneak peek: The Roloffs celebrate Amy's 50th birthday in June 10 show

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From zap2it : While "Little People, Big World" star Matt Roloff had a giant party for his 50th birthday, the family is think...

European Union report says disability rights 'not being respected'

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From TheParliament.com : A new report says that discrimination against people with intellectual disabilities and people with mental he...

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Blind cook's competitive spirit burns on Gordon Ramsay's 'MasterChef'

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From The Houston Chronicle : When chef Gordon Ramsay gets angry - and he always does - his face turns crimson, the lines in his forehea...

Thursday, May 31, 2012

USA Today profiles Blind Movie Critic Tommy Edison

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from USA Today : Tommy Edison (pictured) knows you've got questions about blind people — because people have been asking him those ...

'OC87': A first film about OCD, Asperger's, personal and hard-won

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From NPR : Bud Clayman (pictured) is not the sort of person who typically attracts cameras. Pudgy, with a droning voice and a cackle h...

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Wheelchairs can't slow these powerful 'Push Girls'

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Media dis&dat note: I watched the Push Girls premiere May 29, when it was available on iTunes. Really good. I might quibble with a w...

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BA Haller: 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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