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Can’t say that we have ever made two posts in one day, but this is so needed.  We’ve made reference to this very thing before.  Please check out this article and see more at the link above and JOIN the cause!  There’s no better way to Advocate for Special People!!!

One week ago today it became official.  The United States Congress has now passed legislation the removes the term “mental retardation” from all federal laws.  Now all existing education, health and labor laws will change the phrase “mentally retarded” to “an individual with an intellectual disability.”  Though it may seem a bit too politically correct, [...]

In recent blog posts (here, here, and here) I havepretty vocally noted my appreciation for all the Sarah Palin is doing to draw attention to the special needs community.  She’s being praised and ridiculed, uplifted and degraded by the masses for her strong stance against the use of the word “retarded” in a derogatory fashion.  [...]

The Rahm Emanuel incident has caused quite the conversation among journalists and media personalities throughout the country.  From nightly news broadcasts to radio talk shows it has definitely put the topic on the map. 
Recently the ladies of The View took it to task.  I learned something that I never knew until this incident, that Barbara Walters and [...]

 I don’t know if you want to call it ironic or a coincidence (which I don’t much believe it either) that just a few short weeks ago in this blog I was talking about our government leaders starting to understand our fight to advocate for individuals with special needs.  Just two days prior to that, [...]

No sooner had I considered that someone in a political office needed to be vocal for those with special needs that I read about Rosa’s Law (U.S. Senate Bill 2781) where Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Michael Enzi (R- WY) have co-sponsored the bipartisan bill to replace the words “mental retardation” with the words “intellectual [...]

Warning- you or someone you know is about to be harshly reprimanded simply because of what you may have just said.  Portions of this blog post are coming from The Vision, ARC Marion’s newsletter, Fall/Winter 2008, but since I wrote it there, I’m posting it here.  It’s important for people to know how we,as advocates for [...]