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  1. Topgolf and Special Olympics Expand Inclusive Golf Opportunities Worldwide

    Three-year, $1.5 million commitment fuels a Mexico expansion, record tournament growth, and the August 29 Special Olympics Topgolf…
    #Golf #News #intellectualdisabilities #invitational #SpecialOlympics #Topgolf #Topgolflocations #TopgolfMonterrey
    europesays.com/golf/50030/

  2. Media Food Bank celebrates three decades of serving the community

    MEDIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — Dating back to 1995, volunteers in Media, Pennsylvania have been feeding the hungry. “People who live here care about food insecurity and don’t want people to be without food…the mission is to not only …
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #18704860 #foodbank #intellectualdisabilities #volunteers
    diningandcooking.com/2551174/m

  3. Media Food Bank celebrates three decades of serving the community

    MEDIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — Dating back to 1995, volunteers in Media, Pennsylvania have been feeding the hungry. “People who live here care about food insecurity and don’t want people to be without food…the mission is to not only …
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #18704860 #foodbank #intellectualdisabilities #volunteers
    diningandcooking.com/2551174/m

  4. Media Food Bank celebrates three decades of serving the community

    MEDIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — Dating back to 1995, volunteers in Media, Pennsylvania have been feeding the hungry. “People who live here care about food insecurity and don’t want people to be without food…the mission is to not only …
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #18704860 #foodbank #intellectualdisabilities #volunteers
    diningandcooking.com/2551174/m

  5. Media Food Bank celebrates three decades of serving the community

    MEDIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — Dating back to 1995, volunteers in Media, Pennsylvania have been feeding the hungry. “People who live here care about food insecurity and don’t want people to be without food…the mission is to not only …
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Food #18704860 #foodbank #intellectualdisabilities #volunteers
    diningandcooking.com/2551174/m

  6. Maureen McCormick Honors Parents on National Caregiver’s Day with Heartfelt Tribute

    A former star of The Brady Bunch shared a powerful message on a day that holds a very…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Celebrities #Entertainment #Intellectualdisabilities #MaureenMcCormick
    newsbeep.com/us/482670/

  7. Opinion | I.V.F., Gene Selection and Embryo Screening: Is This the Future of Making Babies?

    When Noor Siddiqui was growing up, her mother developed retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that leads to gradual vision…
    #NewsBeep #News #Genetics #CA #Canada #GeneticsandHeredity #GenomicHealthInc #InVitroFertilization #IntellectualDisabilities #OrchidBiosciencesInc #PolygenicScreening #PrenatalTesting #Science
    newsbeep.com/ca/11557/

  8. Opinion | I.V.F., Gene Selection and Embryo Screening: Is This the Future of Making Babies?

    When Noor Siddiqui was growing up, her mother developed retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that leads to gradual vision…
    #NewsBeep #News #Genetics #CA #Canada #GeneticsandHeredity #GenomicHealthInc #InVitroFertilization #IntellectualDisabilities #OrchidBiosciencesInc #PolygenicScreening #PrenatalTesting #Science
    newsbeep.com/ca/11557/

  9. Echoes of IDD abuses around the world. People with #intellectualdisabilities are so vulnerable. The good news in this report is that the BBC is helping to expose the mocking and bullying...

    "An undercover reporter spent almost 7 weeks at Life Wirral in Wallasey & witnessed staff using offensive language to mock pupils for their neurodiversity or learning disabilities, as well as manhandling them into dangerous headlocks."

    bbc.com/news/articles/cp6643jd

  10. Echoes of IDD abuses around the world. People with #intellectualdisabilities are so vulnerable. The good news in this report is that the BBC is helping to expose the mocking and bullying...

    "An undercover reporter spent almost 7 weeks at Life Wirral in Wallasey & witnessed staff using offensive language to mock pupils for their neurodiversity or learning disabilities, as well as manhandling them into dangerous headlocks."

    bbc.com/news/articles/cp6643jd

  11. Echoes of IDD abuses around the world. People with #intellectualdisabilities are so vulnerable. The good news in this report is that the BBC is helping to expose the mocking and bullying...

    "An undercover reporter spent almost 7 weeks at Life Wirral in Wallasey & witnessed staff using offensive language to mock pupils for their neurodiversity or learning disabilities, as well as manhandling them into dangerous headlocks."

    bbc.com/news/articles/cp6643jd

  12. Echoes of IDD abuses around the world. People with #intellectualdisabilities are so vulnerable. The good news in this report is that the BBC is helping to expose the mocking and bullying...

    "An undercover reporter spent almost 7 weeks at Life Wirral in Wallasey & witnessed staff using offensive language to mock pupils for their neurodiversity or learning disabilities, as well as manhandling them into dangerous headlocks."

    bbc.com/news/articles/cp6643jd

  13. Echoes of IDD abuses around the world. People with #intellectualdisabilities are so vulnerable. The good news in this report is that the BBC is helping to expose the mocking and bullying...

    "An undercover reporter spent almost 7 weeks at Life Wirral in Wallasey & witnessed staff using offensive language to mock pupils for their neurodiversity or learning disabilities, as well as manhandling them into dangerous headlocks."

    bbc.com/news/articles/cp6643jd

  14. How did we protect my sister Teresa's Rights and help her regain control of her life when she was wrongly put into a nursing home?

    Join us & Community Living Ontario for a Zoom webinar on May 23:
    - Stephanie Dickson (Partner, PooranLaw),
    - Franke James and Teresa Heartchild (Authors of Freeing Teresa: A True Story about My Sister and Me),
    - Nicole Flynn (President, Council of CLO)

    Thursday, May 23, 2024, 12:00 to 1:30 pm EDT:
    bit.ly/ProtectingRightsandIncr #downsyndrome #intellectualdisabilities

  15. How did we protect my sister Teresa's Rights and help her regain control of her life when she was wrongly put into a nursing home?

    Join us & Community Living Ontario for a Zoom webinar on May 23:
    - Stephanie Dickson (Partner, PooranLaw),
    - Franke James and Teresa Heartchild (Authors of Freeing Teresa: A True Story about My Sister and Me),
    - Nicole Flynn (President, Council of CLO)

    Thursday, May 23, 2024, 12:00 to 1:30 pm EDT:
    bit.ly/ProtectingRightsandIncr #downsyndrome #intellectualdisabilities

  16. How did we protect my sister Teresa's Rights and help her regain control of her life when she was wrongly put into a nursing home?

    Join us & Community Living Ontario for a Zoom webinar on May 23:
    - Stephanie Dickson (Partner, PooranLaw),
    - Franke James and Teresa Heartchild (Authors of Freeing Teresa: A True Story about My Sister and Me),
    - Nicole Flynn (President, Council of CLO)

    Thursday, May 23, 2024, 12:00 to 1:30 pm EDT:
    bit.ly/ProtectingRightsandIncr #downsyndrome #intellectualdisabilities

  17. How did we protect my sister Teresa's Rights and help her regain control of her life when she was wrongly put into a nursing home?

    Join us & Community Living Ontario for a Zoom webinar on May 23:
    - Stephanie Dickson (Partner, PooranLaw),
    - Franke James and Teresa Heartchild (Authors of Freeing Teresa: A True Story about My Sister and Me),
    - Nicole Flynn (President, Council of CLO)

    Thursday, May 23, 2024, 12:00 to 1:30 pm EDT:
    bit.ly/ProtectingRightsandIncr #downsyndrome #intellectualdisabilities

  18. How did we protect my sister Teresa's Rights and help her regain control of her life when she was wrongly put into a nursing home?

    Join us & Community Living Ontario for a Zoom webinar on May 23:
    - Stephanie Dickson (Partner, PooranLaw),
    - Franke James and Teresa Heartchild (Authors of Freeing Teresa: A True Story about My Sister and Me),
    - Nicole Flynn (President, Council of CLO)

    Thursday, May 23, 2024, 12:00 to 1:30 pm EDT:
    bit.ly/ProtectingRightsandIncr #downsyndrome #intellectualdisabilities

  19. When bus driver Hue Sze Wei found out that service 173 that he operates will have a #bus featuring #artwork by #students with #IntellectualDisabilities, the 41-year-old was happy to hop on board with the initiative.

    He is no stranger to the invasive stares & rude remarks that members of public sometimes have for those with intellectual #disabilities, as he has a son who attended a kindergarten for autistic children.

    channelnewsasia.com/singapore/

    #AsianMastodon #DisabledArtists #TootSEA #Singapore

  20. When bus driver Hue Sze Wei found out that service 173 that he operates will have a #bus featuring #artwork by #students with #IntellectualDisabilities, the 41-year-old was happy to hop on board with the initiative.

    He is no stranger to the invasive stares & rude remarks that members of public sometimes have for those with intellectual #disabilities, as he has a son who attended a kindergarten for autistic children.

    channelnewsasia.com/singapore/

    #AsianMastodon #DisabledArtists #TootSEA #Singapore

  21. When bus driver Hue Sze Wei found out that service 173 that he operates will have a #bus featuring #artwork by #students with #IntellectualDisabilities, the 41-year-old was happy to hop on board with the initiative.

    He is no stranger to the invasive stares & rude remarks that members of public sometimes have for those with intellectual #disabilities, as he has a son who attended a kindergarten for autistic children.

    channelnewsasia.com/singapore/

    #AsianMastodon #DisabledArtists #TootSEA #Singapore

  22. When bus driver Hue Sze Wei found out that service 173 that he operates will have a #bus featuring #artwork by #students with #IntellectualDisabilities, the 41-year-old was happy to hop on board with the initiative.

    He is no stranger to the invasive stares & rude remarks that members of public sometimes have for those with intellectual #disabilities, as he has a son who attended a kindergarten for autistic children.

    channelnewsasia.com/singapore/

    #AsianMastodon #DisabledArtists #TootSEA #Singapore

  23. "Many people with disabilities face stigma, prejudice and discrimination because of their disability... a general pattern was for #MentalHealth conditions, #IntellectualDisabilities and #autism to be judged more negatively than #PhysicalDisability or #SensoryDisability, despite everything else in the scenario being the same. #PhysicallyDisabled #women are judged more negatively than physically disabled #men with respect to having #relationships."

    esri.ie/publications/degree-of

  24. "Many people with disabilities face stigma, prejudice and discrimination because of their disability... a general pattern was for #MentalHealth conditions, #IntellectualDisabilities and #autism to be judged more negatively than #PhysicalDisability or #SensoryDisability, despite everything else in the scenario being the same. #PhysicallyDisabled #women are judged more negatively than physically disabled #men with respect to having #relationships."

    esri.ie/publications/degree-of

  25. "Many people with disabilities face stigma, prejudice and discrimination because of their disability... a general pattern was for #MentalHealth conditions, #IntellectualDisabilities and #autism to be judged more negatively than #PhysicalDisability or #SensoryDisability, despite everything else in the scenario being the same. #PhysicallyDisabled #women are judged more negatively than physically disabled #men with respect to having #relationships."

    esri.ie/publications/degree-of

  26. "An #ESRI survey of 2,000 adults showed higher levels of #ableism towards #MentalHealth conditions, #Intellectualdisabilities #ID and #autism than physical or sensory disabilities...
    While they judged potential #prejudice against #DisabledPeople as unacceptable, they viewed it as more acceptable, for example, to reduce the school hours of a child with #autism than a child with a speech and language disorder."
    #discrimination #autistic #Ireland

    rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0123/

  27. "An #ESRI survey of 2,000 adults showed higher levels of #ableism towards #MentalHealth conditions, #Intellectualdisabilities #ID and #autism than physical or sensory disabilities...
    While they judged potential #prejudice against #DisabledPeople as unacceptable, they viewed it as more acceptable, for example, to reduce the school hours of a child with #autism than a child with a speech and language disorder."
    #discrimination #autistic #Ireland

    rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0123/

  28. "An #ESRI survey of 2,000 adults showed higher levels of #ableism towards #MentalHealth conditions, #Intellectualdisabilities #ID and #autism than physical or sensory disabilities...
    While they judged potential #prejudice against #DisabledPeople as unacceptable, they viewed it as more acceptable, for example, to reduce the school hours of a child with #autism than a child with a speech and language disorder."
    #discrimination #autistic #Ireland

    rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0123/

  29. "An #ESRI survey of 2,000 adults showed higher levels of #ableism towards #MentalHealth conditions, #Intellectualdisabilities #ID and #autism than physical or sensory disabilities...
    While they judged potential #prejudice against #DisabledPeople as unacceptable, they viewed it as more acceptable, for example, to reduce the school hours of a child with #autism than a child with a speech and language disorder."
    #discrimination #autistic #Ireland

    rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0123/

  30. People with #disabilities have long struggled to access quality #healthcare and research shows that many physicians are ill-equipped to care for this population in the same way as others. disabilityscoop.com/2023/12/15

    As a result of the hardships faced, the National Institutes of Health agreed in September to designate people with disabilities as a health disparity population.
    #WomenWithDisabilities #WomensHealth #WomensMentalHealth #IntellectualDisabilities #DisabilityPolicy #accessibility