One story of ADA compliance failures and a school district in Charlottesville, NC.
Autistic students will be forced to testify, or at least take the witness stand, against their alleged abuser -- Kathleen Garrett, a special ed teacher, is charged with abuse that knocked out one child's teeth. Attila the Mom comments here.
A detailed article on the trials of getting employed -- Lawyers With Disabilities Say Obstacles, Stereotypes Persist.
Feministing interviews disability activist Laura Hershey.
Amanda of Ballastexistenz has a really great 8 minute video called In My Language, dedicated to Ashley X. I think it is fairly accessible to those with either sight or hearing impairments, she shows us through singing and rhythym how she communicates with her environment, and when she speaks using an electronic voice machine, she also provides subtitles. Update: Partial written transcript here. Discussion at Metafilter here.
The investigative reporting on conditions in Georgia state mental hospitals continues. An excerpt from part 3:
Mike Ervin writes on "15 years of ADA filled with setbacks, victories" for the Progressive Media Project.He was choked until his last breath. Blood pooled beneath his skin from two wounds to the back of his head. His body lay in an ignominious sprawl: facedown on the floor of a state psychiatric hospital.
Georgia's chief medical examiner ruled his death a homicide. So did a coroner's jury.
Yet no one ever faced criminal charges for killing Rickey Dean Wingo. No one was even disciplined.
In Georgia's state mental hospitals, even the most egregious cases involving employees — patient deaths, assaults, beatings — usually result in penalties no harsher than firing, and sometimes no punishment at all, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows.
Tiny Cat Pants comments on what I'm Funny Too has to say about liberals and disability issues.
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