#Disability

Brian Barbas

DrBBarbas

A week from today, I return from disability after being off for 11 months. I feel like I'm being sent off to the front lines of war, right down to

Dr Girish Vaidya

DrGirishPsych

#LearningDisability, #obesity #inclusiveCycling and #COVID19 (a thread)@BorisJohnson own experience of #COVID19 may have stirred this decision - particularly good if is also included.However, it would be good if those

Matthew Cortland, Esq

mattbc

Let's play spot the pattern:Ableds: we refuse to invest in a ventilator stockpile sized to cope with foreseeable infectious disease pandemicsAlso ableds: we're preferentially denying disabled folks access to ventilators

hekalu

dgamflejling

I'm so appreciative of the ICD-11's definition of adhd and the fact that they now align with the CPRD, just listen to this[It's not you that has a disability bc

Lydia X. Z. Brown

autistichoya

These surveillance tools are also incredibly ableist - think about autistic, blind, and other disabled people whose eye movements are atypical and will be flagged as suspicious; or people with

Alex Haagaard (they/them)

alexhaagaard

I often wish there were more awareness and discussion of the ways in which sustained relationships (and by extension community) are inherently inaccessible for some folks. While also recognizing how

Neurodivergent Practitioner (she/her)

NDPractitioner

When I was first starting out in teaching I was very anti-knowledge rich curriculum and very pro-experiential learning and learning to learn. Now I've done a couple of years I've

Rory - ADHD Autistic OCD

roryreckons

Not surprised at these results given my audience. I’m going to talk about Euthanasia for a while. It has really bad ramifications for those who live with disability. This is

Mini-Pla TaJaDoyle ♿️

Wheelchair21

Watching the 'diversity' portion of the @PowerRangers panel annoys me when the Rangers praise Chip Lynn, and my interactions discussing wheelchair bound Rangers with him were not the same.I had

Joseph Marotta

josephmarotta

This thread is for folks in my timeline retweeting @TomJChicago:I understand the desire to diagnose Trump with FTD from afar. Reagan’s Alzheimer’s May have affected policy, and we don’t need

Sébastien Jodoin

sjodoin

@UNHumanRights has released a study setting out key principles & recommendations for protecting & promoting #disabilityrights in the context of #ClimateChange. In this thread, I’ll summarize its key conclusions &

🔮🎃Cassiel ♿︎🍂✨

CassielWinnie

Hi, for anyone that doesn’t know me my name is Cassiel, or Cas for short and I have a few #invisibledisabilities . I have fibromyalgia, polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos) and

Ayo Sogunro

ayosogunro

The best chance Nigeria has for sustained agitations for reforms is a united middle class willing and ready to cripple national economic activity to compel changes.But the Nigerian middle class

Dan Holloway

agnieszkasshoes

Thread on disability & institutional messaging during Covid1. If you're communicating about #COVID19 with a team in your organization, whenever you are about to say "we are all finding this

Ken Boessenkool

KenBoessenkool

Been thinking more about the interaction of CERB with provincial welfare programs and thought I’d start a short thread before going away and perhaps writing about it.It’s not as simple

Autism Advocacy Ontario

AutismAdvocacy_

A thread... 1/ Close to 10K students are at risk of having crucial School Based Rehabilitation Services (SBRS) disrupted as MCCSS is allowing a mid-school year transfer of services. This