#Disability

Mohammed Hussain

DigitalPhamcist

A thought experimentBoard meetingFemale board member (SK) on new equality strategy, SK says as a woman she can say something that a man can not SK expressed support for the

Septima P. Snark

DrSubini

An email I just sent in response to a speaking invite I received. "Thank you for this invite. I do want to be transparent that my target audience is rarely

Samuel Yates

SamuelYates

#AcademicTwitter–As you build online classes provide accessible course materials or links to access tools. If you are teaching synchronous zooms, which has no auto-caption feature, direct folks to tools like

Melissa Sweet

MelissaSweetDr

The #coronavirus supplement is the biggest boost to Indigenous incomes since Whitlam. It should be made permanent https://croakey.org/the-coronavirus-supplement-is-the-biggest-boost-to-indigenous-incomes-since-whitlam-it-should-be-made-permanent/ via

kerima Cevik (On partial health hiatus)

kerima_cevik

Many #AutisticWhileBlack ppl I know personally began with self-diagnosis that explained misdiagnoses and filled in blanks. This self-diagnosis led to an eventual formal diagnosis. Sitting on Twitter as an anonymous

Megan Lynch

may_gun

I’ve asked my followers many times for RTs when I ask for abled allies. Folks rarely RT. They’d rather RT an abled person with a blue check. But RT this:

adhd-angsty

AdhdAngsty

I know many disagree with me, but I earnestly don't understand the benefit of only framing ADHD as an exclusively bad thing. To me that just ends up with eugenic

Dr. Christopher Leighton

ccleighton

ICU & hospital doctors all over Ontario are training how to speak to families to tell them their loved ones are not eligible for critical care because of their pre-existing

Sparrow/Liz (semi-hiatus)

UntoNuggan

It also feels like society doesn't give disabled people a model, or even permission or space, for this kind of grief over who we thought we were or plans we

Alexa Wilson

AlexaDWilson

Today is European Fragile X Syndrome awareness day. #FragileX is a chromosomal abnormality and is the most common form of inherited learning disability. It's called Fragile X as the end

Tania Melnyczuk

ekverstania

I'm an activist for the rights of nonspeaking autistic people. It's #AACAwarenessMonth and I have something rather to tell you. First of all, the principle: Communication is a basic human

jason wilson

jason_a_w

Hi Jake. I know you care about press freedom, and I have seen that you have retweeted a colleague who was tear gassed. But could we get a supportive tweet

Dr Amy Kavanagh👩🏼‍🦯 🦮

BlondeHistorian

This pandemic has exposed & sharpened many of the inequalities disabled people experience.July is #DisabilityPrideMonth so let's celebrate disabled voices, give us a platform & pay us for our expertise.It's

Jayne McCubbin

JayneMcCubbinTV

A thread - In 2018 @mencap_charity introduced me to Pat & Ken BoothI was trying to find parents of people with a learning disability who’d died prematurelyThey told me about

Dr. Sarah Victor (she/her/dr) 😷

sarahevictor

Some things I’m amazed by:Our President-Elect has a disability. He has known tragic grief. He publicly praises his son in recovery. He values science. He mentioned transgender people in his

Venus

StreamingxHeart

So there was something that I have really wanted to try for a good while, and that is putting together a maid cafe that specifically caters to people who have