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Rosa’s Law: “Intellectual Disability” Applauded

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski today introduced “Rosa’s Law,” a bill that will eliminate the terms “mental retardation” and “mentally retarded” from the federal law books. U.S. Senator Michael B. Enzi (R-Wyo

.), Ranking Member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is the Republican sponsor of the bill.

Under Rosa’s Law, those terms would be replaced with “intellectual disability” and “individual with an intellectual disability” in federal education, health and labor law. The bill does not expand or diminish services, rights or educational opportunities. It simply makes the federal law language consistent with that used by the Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization and the President of the United States, through his Committee on Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities.

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Come to Your Senses, #1 Worship as Total Experience

I invite you to make fuller use of our five senses in worship and to infuse them into the elements of your services of worship.

In this series, each column–“‘Do You Hear What I Hear?'” or “A Sound of Silence”, “A Wink of Color”, “Keeping in Touch”, “A Whiff of Faith” and “Tasting the Holy”–lifts up one sense. Its core is simple: Worship is a total experience which involves the whole person. However, worship is as complex as the depths of feeling and the holy connections it evokes. Woven together, environment and ritual invite worship to be an active response to an active God.

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Did You Catch That? Welcoming Persons with Hearing Loss

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Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live(Isaiah 55:3a)

This mandate is to hear. I want to live.
What if my ears cannot hear?

My child, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings (Proverbs 4:20.)

I can lean toward you with full attention; but if I cannot hear you –.

Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak (Deuteronomy 32:1a.)

Will you avoid speaking should you think I am not listening?

The hearing ear and the seeing eye — the Lord has made them both (Proverbs 20:12.)

Who made the unseeing eye and the non-hearing ear?

My ear has heard and understood it (Job 13:1b.)

I wish.

Such is a conceivable litany of the hearing-challenged. Communication is what a church is about.

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