INCLUSION DAILY EXPRESS -- Below The Fold: December 9, 2005

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BELOW THE FOLD

Friday, December 9, 2005
Today's list includes 28 items. Some sites may require registration.
Editor's picks -- those considered particularly interesting, newsworthy or well-written -- are marked with an asterisk (*).

Links are listed alphabetically by country, then by state, province or territory.
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Australia
Bangladesh
Canada
India
Ireland
United Kingdom
United States

AUSTRALIA
* (Criminal justice system) The Intersection of Mental Illness and the 'Criminal Justice System' in Australia
* (Criminal justice system) Terror laws likely to increase wrongful detention

BANGLADESH
(Children) Malnutrition cripples children in Bangladesh

CANADA
* (Advocacy / Awareness) CNIB yields to critics on television spots by Toronto Star disability & aging issues columnist Helen Henderson
Manitoba
* (Politics / Contribution) Disabled MP faces challenge of winter campaign -- Steven Fletcher

INDIA
(Children) Awards for spastic society of Tamil Nadu

IRELAND
(Awareness) Balloon release marks Disability Day

UNITED KINGDOM
* (Accessibility / Laws) Blind charity in warning to restuarants -- failing to provide accessible menus
* (Institutions) Black people sectioning bias
* (Institutions) New mental health bill 'unworkable'
(Misc) Thalidomide victims get cash and apology
England
* (Accessibility / Recreation) Talking Golf: New disability act leaves clubs facing high bills
* (Transportation / Accessibility) Fans' farewell to Routemaster bus

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UNITED STATES
(Employment) New Gallup Poll on Employment Discrimination Shows Progress, Problems 40 Years After Founding of EEOC

Colorado
* (Criminal justice system) This time, police reform has yardstick -- refers to police shootings of Paul Childs and Frank Lobato

Florida
(Health care) All eyes to be on Medicaid
(Health care) Medicaid to undergo 'the boldest reform' in HMO experiment

Georgia
* (Families / Community living) Parents caught in Medicaid crunch

Indiana
* (Contribution / Memorial) Springville, Billy brought out best in each other

New Mexico
(Misc) Challenge New Mexico to cut programs

North Carolina
(Community living) A Crisis In Mental-Health Care
* (Institutions - nursing homes) Payments allowed for home in Clemmons

Pennsylvania
* (Community living) Rules for helping mentally retarded vary widely among counties
(Community living) Mentally retarded young adults go unprotected in Pennsylvania
(Community living) In Pennsylvania, the mentally retarded spill into loosely monitored care
* (Employment) Ex-worker accuses Good Shepherd of discrimination; Lawsuit says home failed to accommodate her disabilities

Virginia
(Criminal justice system) Killer's note: 'I must go'; Bipolar illness 'tortured' him before murder-suicide

Washington
* (Institutions / Abuse) Probe into 2 deaths moves ahead -- Frances Haddon Morgan Center

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