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Our society thrives on making abnormal individuals “normal.” This is the case with Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy, which is a normalized, widely-accepted form of prejudice against autistic children.
Share Photo: (Photo : Getty Images: Robertus Pudyanto / Stringer) Disabled people are said to be two to three times more likely to have chronic conditions — such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, or cancer — which put them at higher risk of contracting COVID-19. Now, parents await the response of the CDC as they advocate for their disabled children to be vaccinated. D.C., as well as Maryland, Alabama, and several other states, are leaving out Phase 1a proposals for people with disabilities residing in large facilities and group homes, instead of transferring them to 1b or 1c. Grou...
Dear Care and Feeding, My husband and I both have full-time jobs and an 18-month-old son. I am pregnant with our second child, due in February. Since our son was born, my husband seems to have regressed. He has not once helped me at night with our son, and has gotten up with him in the morning to let me sleep in no more than six times since his birth. Four of those times my husband threw a tantrum, slamming doors, throwing things, stomping around. He got my son out of his crib and then went back to sleep on the couch, even as our son cried. When I ask my husband to watch our son so I can get ...
As President Joe Biden introduces a coordinated federal approach to address the COVID-19 pandemic, he's turning attention to the virus' impact on people with disabilities.
People with disabilities desperately need the vaccine. But states disagree on when they’ll get it. Jessica Contrera © Justin Eisner/Justin Eisner Wendy Lincicome is a live-in caregiver for Sloan Meek, 33, in Durham, N.C. She has been trying to find out when she and Meek will be eligible to receive the coronavirus vaccine. (Justin Eisner) For weeks, Wendy Lincicome has been asking the same question. She asks it on the phone. She asks it in emails to state officials. She cares for an epileptic blind man with cerebral palsy 24 hours a day, and when he is asleep, she types ...