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Disability historian Paul Longmore writes about Sarah Palin as “talking about special needs children” and Obama as having substantive plans for all people with disabilities” in the October 3rd Huffington Post:
Even though 90% of the 54 million Americans with disabilities are adults, Palin, John McCain, and the news media have talked almost exclusively about children. […]
What effect will the financial crisis have on the US education budget? Today’s Ed Week notes:
Congress late last week approved a bill extending funding for most education programs and other parts of the federal budget at fiscal 2008 levels through March 6, when the new administration will have been in office for more than […]
In Massachusetts, Michael Mayes, an 18-year-old senior at Marshfield High School who plays baseball and football, is one of 28 students who will serve on Governor Deval Patrick’s Statewide Youth Council, today’s Boston Globe reports:
The panel was established by the governor to allow young people to weigh in on issues important to their communities and […]
The National Institute of Mental Health calls off a study on chelation as a treatment for autistic children. Safety concerns are cited and it also needs to be noted that the reasons for using chelation to “treat” autistic children rest on an unproven hypothesis about autism causation, that autistic children have mercury and/or “heavy metals” […]
In a speech on Monday in Golden, Colorado, Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin noted that, along with energy policy and government reform, “special needs” would be one of the issues she would focus on, should she and Senator John McCain be elected. The September 17th, Education Week notes that Gov. Palin’s reference to “special needs” is […]
Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin on the issues she intends to focus on should John McCain and her be elected in November, from Jonathan Martin’s blog on today’s Washington Examiner:
“John and I have worked out a plan, what I want to concentrate on and what he would like to kind of tap into me to […]
The September 13th St. Paul Pioneer Press notes this about Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s “track record” on spending for special needs:
In the budget she signed into law earlier this year, Palin approved a dramatic raise in spending on children who have what Alaska officials call “intensive needs,” including children who need nurses full time or […]
It’s possible (possible) that Sarah Palin was a bigger topic around here than the usual suspects (vaccines……). The Nation and Foreign Policy have listed some questions for her: What’s yours?
Questions about disability policy and legislation for supports, services, and research preferred.
About the Two Babies in the Palin Family
As the mother of a special needs […]
That’s how Christine Gralow describes her job as a teacher of special needs children yesterday in Becoming an Autism Educator on the NY Times’ Lesson Plans blog:
It sometimes astonishes me that I found my perfect career. I never meant to be a teacher. I meant to be a serious journalist. But when my grad school […]
Seems a band called Elbow has won the Nationwide Mercury Prize—-a “staple of UK music accolade-giving since 1992“—-for its album The Seldom Seen Kid. Considering the attention devoted by some “autism activists” (Safe Minds etc.) to the belief that vaccines or something in vaccines, like the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, can be linked to autism, there […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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