#Disability

Dr Felicity Sedgewick

SedgewickF

The #AutisticaFestival session on Mental Health and Co-occurring conditions is starting now.Again, many more talks I'm looking forward to, though I may (again) have to leave before the end. Sadly,

Steven Spohn

stevenspohn

On June 11th, Michael Hickson, a quadriplegic black man with COVID-19 was killed by a hospital in Austin Texas.Doctors decided he had "no quality of life" and was not worth

Dr. Not Your T*oken

tjjourian

I’m hearing more & more from higher ed & student affairs practitioners that work-from-home has meant feeling even more surveilled through an overreliance on Zoom meetings, daily check-ins & “tell

Nash Across the 8th Dimension

Nash076

And welcome back to the era of "Aspergers means you're allowed to treat everyone like shit with impunity and you aren't responsible for your actions."Christ I hate Musk's weird little

🌐🕊AREYOUBEINGSERVED✂️- Squad🎳

50linesonly

https://berniesanders.com/issues/ https://berniesanders.com/issues/welcoming-and-safe-america-all/ https://berniesanders.com/issues/medicare-for-all/ https://berniesanders.com/issues/green-new-deal/ https://berniesanders.com/issues/free-college

Jenny Lay-Flurrie

jennylayfluffy

Folks, if someone says they’re deaf and you’re in a mask zone, be prepared to spend an extra minute writing down what you were going to say, talking into a

Nicolas Steenhout

vavroom

I've been working in digital accessibility for a couple decades. I've been using screen readers for testing a "fair bit" over those years. But I'm not a daily user of

ODSP ActionCoalition

ODSPAction

Ottawa is advising provinces not to claw back Canada Emergency Response Benefits from people on social assistance who have lost low-wage work due to the COVID-19 crisis.https://twitter.com/Rampagehall/status/1249880208494211072 Carla Qualtrough, fed.

Hell on Wheels🔥♿🔥

rollwthepunches

I am growing increasingly frustrated by the rhetoric around COVID (esp masks, distancing, prevention, etc) that says the only thing we're trying to protect people from is dying.Or that, if

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IRONldyMargaret

ARE RED STATES using EVICTINS to SUPPRESS VTES?Look at GP'S tone deaf COVID 19, bill I don't put that past a party that puts $ BILLIONS on Apache helicopters. F-35s.ZER

Chris in Chicago:

ChrisInCHI

I have mixed feelings about this.Residents now are in an awful situation, but they themselves aren't made economically insecure by this pandemic. Others in the hospital aren't so lucky.And really

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

ONS

We’ve published analysis of #COVID19 deaths of disabled people (2 March to 14 July 2020).We define disabled people as those who reported in Census 2011 their daily activities were limited

Chris Hatton

chrishattoncedr

In time for the @HumanRightsCtte session, @NHSEngland have just published statistics on COVID-19 deaths of people with learning disabilities from the LeDeR programme. They are herehttps://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/covid-19-deaths-of-pa

🧡tamara🧡

adhdentity

My sister has high support Autism. She does not have the tools to speak for herself, as alongside her Autism she also has an intellectual disability. My sister was exposed

Padmini Chennapragada

Jussri

THREAD about India’s national body (@spl_info ) under @SpecialOlympics Themes of the thread:Refusal to comply with NSDCI, 2011#zeroTransperancy Disregard for rights of PwD in state of #Telangana@drag_org @DisabilityIndia @MSJEGOI @IndiaSp

Matthew L. Blomstedt

NDE_Commish

Do you know the Nebraska Dept. of Education mission statement is “to lead and support the preparation of ALL Nebraskans for learning, earning, and living?” Do you further know that