#Disabilities

Anna Ivanova

neuranna

Everyone at #CogSci2020 complained about the virtual format and hoped to return to live conferences asap. I think this attitude overlooks many issues of traditional conferences that can be solved

Sarah Doll

SarJD123

There is some discussion in my local toxic Facebook group for parents of autistics today. A local teacher made a public post bragging that she denies her class fidgets and

Frank Sowa

FrankSowa1

BREAKING - DeJoy plans on cutting 34% of all union postal jobs between now & the end of this year!At least 105,000 military VETERANS (incl many w disabilities from the

American Horror Callie

DeathCab4Callie

On expecting things to get "better" for students with disabilities elsewhere and handing them off, a thread (PLZ RT-and please read. Listen. Learn.):This one is important. This is actually one

Ninja Samurai 忍者侍

verbstract

Ola.. So I do a bit of photo-manipulation. Please RT my client may be on your TL. Cheers [Some work we did last year for a client] It's a

Robin Osborne

kyblueblood

MONDAY CALL TO ACTION - TELL YOUR SENATORS TO PASS THE HEROES ACT! Congress is back from recess today and we NEED them to pass another round of COVID-19

Shannon Burns, PhD(!)

shannon47burns

Going into fall, I really hope academics are evaluating ways their new online instruction policies may be ableist. Online classes are hard, ESPECIALLY for students with learning disabilities, on the

Ivy

official_aesir

Back in Version 1.8, Rayark added an OS log to the character Xenon, which contains the R slur, derogatory against neurodivetgent people and people with various mental disabilities. Just because

Luke Henriques-Gomes

lukehgomes

The PBO has done a big analysis of jobseeker payments trends over decades and it what it shows really is a national failure. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/30/older-women-and-disabled-people-hardest-hit-by-australias-assault-

TauhidChappell

TauhidChappell

I’ve found myself distancing myself from others because they keep socializing without masks and congregating without care, disregarding the lives of others.My circle is closing because of the ignorance or

eli 𝔦𝔰 𝔞 𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔯 ⚔︎ // #BLM

sodamvrble

FOR EVERYONE CONFUSED ON THE TIMELINE: A white man on the stream casually said the d-slur, there was a use of the phrase “emotional terrorist,” and worst of all they

Petrie-Flom Center

PetrieFlom

HAPPENING NOW! "Disability, COVID-19, and Triage: Exploring Resource Allocation and the Framing of Disability," w/ @CohenProf, @GovindPersad,@OmarSHaqueMDPhD, Leslie Francis & Michael Ashley Stein of @HLSPOD.https://petrieflom.law.harva

Emi

EmiMath1

Someday abled people will stop w the whole "person with a disability" business, as if disabilities are our inconvenient roommates, but I see today is not that day. One thing

Plague Ready Since ‘94

MoparGirl360

Long Thread: those who don’t know, I was fired for my disabilities in June 2019. I asked for accommodations, they gave “easy” ones I had already been doing for over

nat🥑 loves Oliver🥺🥺

idliot

pica (a short thread):•what is pica? -it's a compulsive ed that involves eating non-edible items and things that have no nutritional value. some examples are eating hair, metal, rocks, ice,

am kanngieser

geotransversals

when i speak of care i mean care as interdependence. interdependence is used a lot in disability justice. interdependence is a recognition of shared stakes. rather than i care for