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June 19 & 20, 2006
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June 19 & 20, 2006
This quick and easy email edition included 40 international disability-related news items, with original articles, summaries, and columns from disability perspectives -- many you won't find anywhere else.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"I can eat what I want to eat, when I want to eat, and I don't have people telling me go to bed."
--Nelson Peet, 49, who on the first of this month moved out of a nursing home and into his own apartment (Sixth story)

Featured headlines:
1. State Bans Some Aversives, But Won't Pull Funds From JRC (Albany, New York, USA)
2. Europe Commits To Accessibility Plan For 'E-Inclusion' By 2010 (Riga, Latvia)
3. Suits In Renner-Lewis Restraint Death Come To Quick End (Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA)
4. New Child Abuse Allegations Surface 28 Years After Institution's Closure (Wellington, New Zealand)
5. "A Working Dog's Life" (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
6. Auditor: More People Could Be Served Outside Nursing Homes (Austin, Texas, USA)
7. Today's featured disability website:
The National Arts and Disability Center
8. From the IDE Archives -- June 21, 2002:
Executions Of Convicts With Mental Retardation Are "Cruel And Unusual" Punishment, High Court Rules (Washington, DC, USA)

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June 15 & 16, 2006
This quick and easy email edition included 51 international disability-related news items, with original articles, summaries, and columns from disability perspectives -- many you won't find anywhere else.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"We're tired of being labeled 'mentally retarded.' We're people first before our disability."
--John Anton, who wants the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation to change its name to the Department of Developmental Services (Second story)

Featured headlines:
1. President Apologizes For Off-Hand Sunglasses Remark (Washington, DC, USA)
2. Advocates, DMR Employees Push For Name Change (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
3. Governor Says "Enough"; Directs State Cops To Investigate Oakwood (Somerset, Kentucky, USA)
4. State Violated Free Speech Rights, Advocates Claim (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
5. Couple Indicted Over Daughter's Starvation Death (Texas City, Texas, USA)
6. Kaufmans Ordered To Pay One-Half Million To Abuse Victims (Wichita, Kansas, USA)
7. Apartment Dwellers Get First Step Toward Home Ownership (Exeter, England, UK)
8. "Putting The Walk Back In Sidewalk" (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
9. Today's featured disability laws website:
ADA Home Page
10. From the IDE Archives -- June 15, 2005:
Schiavo Autopsy Results Released To Public (Largo, Florida, USA)

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June 14, 2006
This quick and easy email edition included 38 international disability-related news items, with original articles, summaries, and columns from disability perspectives -- many you won't find anywhere else.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Just like orphanages went the way of the dinosaur, they should all be bulldozed. There’s no reason for people to be institutionalized any more."
--Don Moss, executive director of United Cerebral Palsy of Illinois, responding to a state audit which revealed that the monthly costs of institutionalizing a person in one Illinois facility jumped from $16,000 in 2002 to $21,000 in 2004 (Sixth story)

Featured headlines:
1. New York Report Blasts Rotenberg Aversive Programs (Albany, New York, USA)
2. Mom, Accused Of Stabbing Daughter, Now 'Fit' For Trial (St. Charles, Illinois, USA)
3. Advocates Prepare To Challenge Plans For New Specialized School (Elkhorn, Wisconsin, USA)
4. Formula One Designer Rolls Out New Off-Road Wheelchair (Swindon, England, UK)
5. ADA Signs Are Business' Life-Blood (Schenectady, New York, USA)
6. State's Institutions = High-Priced Dinosaurs (Springfield, Illinois, USA)
7. Today's featured housing website:
Opening Doors
8. From the IDE Archives -- June 14, 2004:
Sisters Meet After 65-Year Separation (Sacramento, California, USA)

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June 13, 2006
This quick and easy email edition included 8 international disability-related news items, with original articles, summaries, and columns from disability perspectives -- many you won't find anywhere else.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"The word 'crip' does get me into some hot water, but it also stimulates discussion. I just have to be a bit careful with it."
--Harriet McBryde Johnson (Sixth story)

Featured headlines:
1. McCarron Out On Bail After Pleading Not Guilty In Daughter's Death (Pekin, Illinois, USA)
2. New Independent Living Initiative Launched (London, England, UK)
3. Police Charge Teens With Stomping Good Samaritan (Sacramento, California, USA)
4. Medical Examiner: Restraint Killed Girl, 7 (Rice Lake, Wisconsin, USA)
5. "Fighting To Stay A Family" (Trenton, New Jersey, USA)
6. Harriet McBryde Johnson And The "C" Word (Hartford, Connecticut, USA)
7. Today's featured disability history website:
DNA Interactive -- Dolan DNA Learning Center
8. From the IDE Archives -- June 10, 2005:
Huge Apartment Accessibility Suit Settled (Washington, DC, USA)

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June 9, 2006
This quick and easy email edition included 42 international disability-related news items, with original articles, summaries, and columns from disability perspectives -- many you won't find anywhere else.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"The biggest dilemma the handicapped face -- and mostly cannot overcome -- is the wrong perception others have about disability. For many, disability equals not being able to do anything."
--Ali Wijeeh, the head of the Yemeni Society for Rehabilitating the Physically Handicapped (Fifth story)

Featured headlines:
1. State High Court Upholds "Hearsay" Testimony (Tallahassee, Florida, USA)
2. Former Alabama Official To Head Up Troubled D.C. Agency (Washington, DC, USA)
3. Measure Calling For Better Nursing Home Evacuation Plans Nears Approval (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA)
4. Handcuffed, Senior Activists Rally To Demand Freedom From Nursing Homes (Providence, Rhode Island, USA)
5. Yemeni Advocates Want Respect, Not Pity (Sana'a, Yemen)
6. "Dad Was Tough So I Would Learn To Be" (Pontiac, Michigan, USA)
7. Today's featured families website:
The Sibling Support Project
8. From the IDE Archives -- June 9, 2003:
Survey Shows Former Muscatatuck Residents And Families Are Happier In Community (Indianapolis, Indiana, USA)

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