DISABILITY AWARENESS MONTH...HAS ANYTHING CHANGED?

COUNTY TO ISSUE PROCLAMATION ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, HAS ANYTHING CHANGED?
 1e Recognizing March as Developmental Disability Awareness Month
See agenda: http://websrv7.clallam.net/forms/uploads/bocc_meeting_agenda.pdf
The proclamation is in the agenda packet: http://websrv7.clallam.net/forms/uploads/bocc_meeting_packet.pdf

Editorial Note: With all those proclamations and lofty words spoken each year, has anything really change for the disability community locally as a whole? And, not just speaking of those who have Development Disabilities, but all who have a disability in some measure. There's been reports nationally that violence against people with disabilities are on the increase, discrimination is also on the increase. It's like, it is now acceptable to treat people with disabilities like second class citizens, much like was done because of race, and still is. The act of segregation has now passed to the disabled, as in,  assuming that disabled folks should associate with their own kind. Much like what is being done along the racial divide. Though there as been no publish reports of outright discrimination against the disabled locally, it is still there just beneath the surface. Like for example: people making the assumption that if you have a physical or sensory disability that you have a developmental one. I heard that by some people around me. Or making the assumption since a person is disabled, they should know everyone who has a disability.  That's like saying all black people are athletically inclined, or they should know everyone else who are of their race. As you see stereotyping isn't only a racial issue, it effects people in all walks of life.
The point is readers when you stereotype people as a group, the community as a whole is diminished.
References:
Reagons Proclamation

* It's Ironic it took a Republican President to do this.

The White House: Remarks by the President at "In Performance at the White House: A Tribute to Ray Charles"

Quote:  Ray Charles Robinson’s childhood in the segregated South was marked by poverty and tragedy.  Early in his life, he watched his younger brother drown, lost his eyesight, and lost his father.  But Ray had two things going for him.  One was a strong mother, Aretha, who insisted that her son not wallow in self-pity, but master self-sufficiency.  And two, he had music.--President Obama
Editorial Note: A prime example of a disabled person who was black, breaking the stereotypes that society probably put on him before he became famous and renown.

Other disability related news
Federal Proposal Calls For Disability Hiring Quota--Disability Scoop


Study Offers Clues To Down Syndrome, Possible Treatment--Disability Scoop


Fight For Promotion Spurs Disability Rights Debate---Disability Scoop


Seven-month-old baby, who was born with rare birth defect, gets a life-saving heart transplant after going into cardiac arrest ---DAILY MAIL UK


Harvard Accessibility Lawsuit Moves Forward--Inside Higher ED


Justice Department Reaches Agreement with a Texas YMCA to Ensure Equal Opportunities for Children with Diabetes





Daily Devotional


 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:18 NKJV