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  1. Braille Is Beautiful, and Braille Is Literacy | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    drkirkadams.com/braille-is-bea

    Kirk Adams argues braille is not an enrichment activity but literacy itself, and that the right principle is not braille or technology but braille and technology. Then he fact-checks his own side: the familiar 10% claim rests on a 1979 report, and the 90% employment figure on a 1996 study of 74 adults.

    #Braille #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  2. Braille Is Beautiful, and Braille Is Literacy | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    drkirkadams.com/braille-is-bea

    Kirk Adams argues braille is not an enrichment activity but literacy itself, and that the right principle is not braille or technology but braille and technology. Then he fact-checks his own side: the familiar 10% claim rests on a 1979 report, and the 90% employment figure on a 1996 study of 74 adults.

    #Braille #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  3. Braille Is Beautiful, and Braille Is Literacy | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    drkirkadams.com/braille-is-bea

    Kirk Adams argues braille is not an enrichment activity but literacy itself, and that the right principle is not braille or technology but braille and technology. Then he fact-checks his own side: the familiar 10% claim rests on a 1979 report, and the 90% employment figure on a 1996 study of 74 adults.

    #Braille #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  4. I'm autistic. Here's what happened to us this week.

    - A whistleblower alleged chronic neglect, bedbugs, and staff sleeping on duty at a Maine residential autism provider. Meanwhile, the company billed Medicaid nearly $27.8 million for fewer than 16 clients.

    - A federal panel just voted to nearly double annual autism funding to $760 million. But the vote was rushed, and public comments from autistic advocates didn't even reach the committee until the day before the decision.

    - A massive new study of over 170,000 health records confirmed a massive gap: autistic girls and women are waiting an average of 3.4 years longer than boys for a diagnosis, leaving them without vital accommodations.

    If you are waiting years for an evaluation or relying on state-funded care to keep a loved one safe... this isn't abstract policy talk. This is Thursday.

    What does the fight for support look like where you live?

    johnnyprofaneknapp.substack.co

    #MentalHealth #Psychology #DisabilityRights #Neurodivergent

  5. I'm autistic. Here's what happened to us this week.

    - A whistleblower alleged chronic neglect, bedbugs, and staff sleeping on duty at a Maine residential autism provider. Meanwhile, the company billed Medicaid nearly $27.8 million for fewer than 16 clients.

    - A federal panel just voted to nearly double annual autism funding to $760 million. But the vote was rushed, and public comments from autistic advocates didn't even reach the committee until the day before the decision.

    - A massive new study of over 170,000 health records confirmed a massive gap: autistic girls and women are waiting an average of 3.4 years longer than boys for a diagnosis, leaving them without vital accommodations.

    If you are waiting years for an evaluation or relying on state-funded care to keep a loved one safe... this isn't abstract policy talk. This is Thursday.

    What does the fight for support look like where you live?

    johnnyprofaneknapp.substack.co

    #MentalHealth #Psychology #DisabilityRights #Neurodivergent

  6. I'm autistic. Here's what happened to us this week.

    - A whistleblower alleged chronic neglect, bedbugs, and staff sleeping on duty at a Maine residential autism provider. Meanwhile, the company billed Medicaid nearly $27.8 million for fewer than 16 clients.

    - A federal panel just voted to nearly double annual autism funding to $760 million. But the vote was rushed, and public comments from autistic advocates didn't even reach the committee until the day before the decision.

    - A massive new study of over 170,000 health records confirmed a massive gap: autistic girls and women are waiting an average of 3.4 years longer than boys for a diagnosis, leaving them without vital accommodations.

    If you are waiting years for an evaluation or relying on state-funded care to keep a loved one safe... this isn't abstract policy talk. This is Thursday.

    What does the fight for support look like where you live?

    johnnyprofaneknapp.substack.co

    #MentalHealth #Psychology #DisabilityRights #Neurodivergent

  7. I'm autistic. Here's what happened to us this week.

    - A whistleblower alleged chronic neglect, bedbugs, and staff sleeping on duty at a Maine residential autism provider. Meanwhile, the company billed Medicaid nearly $27.8 million for fewer than 16 clients.

    - A federal panel just voted to nearly double annual autism funding to $760 million. But the vote was rushed, and public comments from autistic advocates didn't even reach the committee until the day before the decision.

    - A massive new study of over 170,000 health records confirmed a massive gap: autistic girls and women are waiting an average of 3.4 years longer than boys for a diagnosis, leaving them without vital accommodations.

    If you are waiting years for an evaluation or relying on state-funded care to keep a loved one safe... this isn't abstract policy talk. This is Thursday.

    What does the fight for support look like where you live?

    johnnyprofaneknapp.substack.co

    #MentalHealth #Psychology #DisabilityRights #Neurodivergent

  8. I'm autistic. Here's what happened to us this week.

    - A whistleblower alleged chronic neglect, bedbugs, and staff sleeping on duty at a Maine residential autism provider. Meanwhile, the company billed Medicaid nearly $27.8 million for fewer than 16 clients.

    - A federal panel just voted to nearly double annual autism funding to $760 million. But the vote was rushed, and public comments from autistic advocates didn't even reach the committee until the day before the decision.

    - A massive new study of over 170,000 health records confirmed a massive gap: autistic girls and women are waiting an average of 3.4 years longer than boys for a diagnosis, leaving them without vital accommodations.

    If you are waiting years for an evaluation or relying on state-funded care to keep a loved one safe... this isn't abstract policy talk. This is Thursday.

    What does the fight for support look like where you live?

    johnnyprofaneknapp.substack.co

    #MentalHealth #Psychology #DisabilityRights #Neurodivergent

  9. When Speaking Up Feels Dangerous: We Need Community More Than Ever | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    drkirkadams.com/when-speaking-

    Advocates have stopped asking whether their organizations move fast enough and started asking whether it is safe to speak up at all. The perceived cost of advocacy is rising. His answer is community, not bravado: courage should not require recklessness. Free livestreamed launch September 1.

    #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  10. When Speaking Up Feels Dangerous: We Need Community More Than Ever | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    drkirkadams.com/when-speaking-

    Advocates have stopped asking whether their organizations move fast enough and started asking whether it is safe to speak up at all. The perceived cost of advocacy is rising. His answer is community, not bravado: courage should not require recklessness. Free livestreamed launch September 1.

    #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  11. When Speaking Up Feels Dangerous: We Need Community More Than Ever | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    drkirkadams.com/when-speaking-

    Advocates have stopped asking whether their organizations move fast enough and started asking whether it is safe to speak up at all. The perceived cost of advocacy is rising. His answer is community, not bravado: courage should not require recklessness. Free livestreamed launch September 1.

    #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  12. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jeremy Grandstaff, Executive Director, The Inspiration Foundation | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Jeremy Grandstaff, six months into leading the Inspiration Foundation, on grants, the emerging Inspiration Seal, and a goal of raising the disability employment rate by 10% in five years - and why he walks to the podium with his cane, not escorted.

    #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  13. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jeremy Grandstaff, Executive Director, The Inspiration Foundation | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Jeremy Grandstaff, six months into leading the Inspiration Foundation, on grants, the emerging Inspiration Seal, and a goal of raising the disability employment rate by 10% in five years - and why he walks to the podium with his cane, not escorted.

    #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  14. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Jeremy Grandstaff, Executive Director, The Inspiration Foundation | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Jeremy Grandstaff, six months into leading the Inspiration Foundation, on grants, the emerging Inspiration Seal, and a goal of raising the disability employment rate by 10% in five years - and why he walks to the podium with his cane, not escorted.

    #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  15. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mindy Kolin, Director of Development & Industry Partnerships at Teach Access, and Kate Sonka, Executive Director
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Kate Sonka and Mindy Kolin on why Teach Access trains educators, not students: one faculty member reaches 50 to 100 students a semester. Its 2020 goal of 1 million students by 2030 passed 1.5 million in 2025 — and Teach Access Europe is next.

    #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  16. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mindy Kolin, Director of Development & Industry Partnerships at Teach Access, and Kate Sonka, Executive Director
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Kate Sonka and Mindy Kolin on why Teach Access trains educators, not students: one faculty member reaches 50 to 100 students a semester. Its 2020 goal of 1 million students by 2030 passed 1.5 million in 2025 — and Teach Access Europe is next.

    #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  17. 🎙️ Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Mindy Kolin, Director of Development & Industry Partnerships at Teach Access, and Kate Sonka, Executive Director
    drkirkadams.com/podcasts-by-dr

    Kate Sonka and Mindy Kolin on why Teach Access trains educators, not students: one faculty member reaches 50 to 100 students a semester. Its 2020 goal of 1 million students by 2030 passed 1.5 million in 2025 — and Teach Access Europe is next.

    #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity

  18. The Disability Dividend, Audited | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher, Access Information News | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    accessinformationnews.com/the-

    Rather than endorse a colleague's book, Di Blasi audits it — putting Dr. Kirk Adams's claim that disability inclusion is a measurable competitive advantage, not charity, on the bench. His verdict, with the numbers to back it: the dividend is real.

    #DisabilityInclusion #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #KirkAdams

  19. The Disability Dividend, Audited | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher, Access Information News | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    accessinformationnews.com/the-

    Rather than endorse a colleague's book, Di Blasi audits it — putting Dr. Kirk Adams's claim that disability inclusion is a measurable competitive advantage, not charity, on the bench. His verdict, with the numbers to back it: the dividend is real.

    #DisabilityInclusion #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #KirkAdams

  20. The Disability Dividend, Audited | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher, Access Information News | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    accessinformationnews.com/the-

    Rather than endorse a colleague's book, Di Blasi audits it — putting Dr. Kirk Adams's claim that disability inclusion is a measurable competitive advantage, not charity, on the bench. His verdict, with the numbers to back it: the dividend is real.

    #DisabilityInclusion #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #KirkAdams

  21. How to Take Advantage of the HHS Extension | By Mark Miller, Inclusion Impact Accessibility | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    inclusionimpact.co/how-to-take

    The last-minute Title II and HHS deadline extension has organizations wondering what now. Handled correctly, this next year is an opportunity to get accessibility right, mitigate risk, and do it all efficiently and cost-effectively. Mark shares tips to help you decide.

    #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #ATNewswire #Accessibility #HHS #TitleII

  22. How to Take Advantage of the HHS Extension | By Mark Miller, Inclusion Impact Accessibility | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    inclusionimpact.co/how-to-take

    The last-minute Title II and HHS deadline extension has organizations wondering what now. Handled correctly, this next year is an opportunity to get accessibility right, mitigate risk, and do it all efficiently and cost-effectively. Mark shares tips to help you decide.

    #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #ATNewswire #Accessibility #HHS #TitleII

  23. How to Take Advantage of the HHS Extension | By Mark Miller, Inclusion Impact Accessibility | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
    inclusionimpact.co/how-to-take

    The last-minute Title II and HHS deadline extension has organizations wondering what now. Handled correctly, this next year is an opportunity to get accessibility right, mitigate risk, and do it all efficiently and cost-effectively. Mark shares tips to help you decide.

    #DisabilityRights #PWDMediaCoOp #ATNewswire #Accessibility #HHS #TitleII

  24. PCB is happy to see the National Constitution Center expanding tactile offerings for blind & low vision visitors.

    However, the current schedule is limited.

    PCB encourages the Center to build on this progress.

    We would welcome the chance to help think through what broader access could look like.

    This is a good start. Let’s keep moving forward.

    Accessibility is a right, not a luxury.

    #PCBPeers #AccessibilityMatters #BlindCommunity #LowVision #MuseumAccess #TactileTours #DisabilityRights

  25. Disabled Organizers Are Facing Down Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

    Disability justice organizers are turning to immigrant rights groups to guide their interventions and support work.

    murica.website/2026/03/disable

  26. Critics Alarmed as Trump Leverages Shutdown to Gut Special Education Office

    Some believe the layoffs are a way to force the special education law to be managed by some other federal office.

    murica.website/2025/10/critics

  27. Pioneering disability rights advocate Helen Keller was born on this day in 1880. An inspiration to many, her legacy is extensive. We're pleased to offer powerful tools for teaching with Crip Camp about Disability Rights and the contemporary Disability Rights activists who picked up her torch.

    Get the free Crip Camp curriculum guide and bring this engaging film to your classroom.

    journeysinfilm.org/product/cri

    @education @disabilityhistory
    #HelenKeller #Education #Homeschooling #Disability #DisabilityRights #DisabilityHistory #DisabilityJustice

  28. #MadLiterature
    Available for pre order:

    A Mad Turn
    Edited by Phil Smith

    Written by Mad scholars, A Mad Turn explores the field of Mad Studies in theory and practice, and what Mad Studies can bring to academia and to other social institutions. What does it mean to “do” Mad Studies? What are the field’s intersections with disability justice, Mad justice, and gender and queer studies? This book is a bold step toward the Mad Studies yet-to-come—a Mad Studies that Mad people will build, twisting and turning and singing and dancing, a new realm of thinking-being-doing-knowing. Step into it with us.

    autonomous-press.myshopify.com

    Hashtags & Group mentions below
    #LivingMad
    #Madness #MadMastodon #MadPride #MadThought
    #MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad

    #Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
    #PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
    #LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
    #DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
    #CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
    #Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
    #Stories #isolation #SystemicInjustice #AltMentalHealth #instutionalization #PeerSupport #asylum

    ——

    @MadMovementMastodon @[email protected] @disability @[email protected]
    @disabilityhistory @neurodivergence

  29. #MadLiterature

    Empire of Normality
    Neurodiversity and Capitalism
    by Robert Chapman

    This is a priority read for me!

    I’m looking forward to how Chapman explains the emergence and rise of the pathology paradigm and its entanglement with the fundamental logic of capitalism. Specifically how the medical and scientific definitions of illness, disability, and normality have grown in response to economic and ideological developments.

    plutobooks.com/9780745348667/e

    Hashtags & Group mentions below

    #Madness #MadMastodon #MadPride #MadThought
    #MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad

    #Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
    #PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
    #LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
    #DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
    #CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
    #Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
    #Stories #isolation #SystemicInjustice

    ——

    @MadMovementMastodon
    @[email protected]
    @disability
    @[email protected]
    @disabilityhistory
    @neurodivergence

  30. Happy #IDPWD colleagues, comrades and community!

    Natalie Wade and I got you a present. Well, it is probably a practical present for the Attorney-General, but you might like to open it for him.

    The article is free until 31 December 2023 to celebrate IDPWD (thanks Leadership from SAGE Journals and Deb Candy).

    journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/

    Enjoy!

    - from Graeme and Nat

    #DisabilityRights #AccessToJustice #HumanRights #LawJournal #DDAReform

  31. Philosophy and Madness a combination that makes me smile!!!
    #MadLiterature
    Too mad to be true II - The promises and perils of the first-person perspective

    psychiatrieenfilosofie.nl/too-

    The second Too Mad To Be True conference that was dedicated to exploring the various links between philosophy and madness. The atmosphere was vibrant and it initiated new ways of thinking and communicating around issues of madness and philosophy. The central theme was both relevant to philosophical and mad theories and practices: ' The promises and perils of the first-person perspective'. The conference was hybrid: both in person, in Ghent, Belgium, as well as online. 

    Hashtags & Group mentions below

    #PeerSupport #AltMentalHealth
    #Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
    #PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
    #LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
    #DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
    #CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
    #Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
    #Stories #isolation

    ——

    @MadMovementMastodon
    @[email protected]
    @disability
    @[email protected]
    @disabilityhistory
    @neurodivergence