Mote in comments the request for a UCC church near Frederick, MD that offers interpreting for the deaf. During the recent few years the sleeping…
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Comments closedWASHINGTON, 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.
Comments closedMargaret (Peg) Vigars Wilke died peacefully at her home in Claremont, California on Saturday, October 17. A resident of Pilgrim Place community in Claremont since 1989, she enjoyed a music concert on campus the day before her passing. Matriar
ch of a large family, artist, therapist and early fighter for civil rights, economic justice and women’s rights, she was wife and helpmate of the late Reverend Harold Wilke, himself a disability rights pioneer and activist involved in the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Peg was 93.
Comments closedAn article in the New York Times by Iraq war veteran Michael Jernigan offers a significant educational tool for understanding the transition into society that returning veterans face. [Website Ed.]
October 25, 2009, 9:00 pm
T
he Minefield at Home
By Michael Jernigan
Katherine Streeter
In August 2004, while on patrol with my Marine unit in Mahmudiya, Iraq, I was severely wounded by a roadside bomb. My wounds included a crushed skull and right hand, traumatic brain injury and the loss of both my eyes.
I am not alone. In the past eight years, many of the 35,000 American soldiers wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have returned home. But many of us have also returned with deep emotional wounds, and those are harder to see.
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