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Alabama Teen with Cerebral Palsy Refused Admission at High School of Choice
Maegan Palmer, an Alabama teen with cerebral palsy, was told by Montgomery County School officials that should could not register at Robert E. Lee High School, her zoned school, because she uses a wheelchair. The school official said that Lee is not wheelchair accessible, and that Maegan would attend a different school instead. Her parents have protested the decision and filed a claim with the U.S. Board of Education's Office for Civil Rights.
Montgomery Advertiser

Song with Slurs Against Down Syndrome Nominated for Emmy
A song from the TV show "Family Guy" that contains lyrics protested by disability advocates was nominated for an Emmy Award. The song, "Down Syndrome Girl." describes a character as "poorly grooming," "as-of-Monday shoelace tying," and "just a little crooked walking." Members of the Self Advocate Council of the National Down Syndrome Congress sent a letter protesting the Emmy to the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The song did not win the Emmy, given on August 29.
NDSC Letter of Protest

US Data Released on Details of Americans with Disabilities and Employment Rates
The US released it first detailed statistics of of the employment rates of people with disabilities. The report shows they are far more likely than the overall work force to be older, working part-time or jobless for 2009. The information from the release was obtained from the Current Population Survey (CPS), which had questions added to it in June 2008 that were designed to identify persons with a disability, and 2009 was the first calendar year for which annual averages were available. Details include statistics by age, race, gender and educational attainment.
Bureau of Labor Statistics Release

Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt Post-Secondary Education Program for Students with Intellectual Disabilities Featured in Chronicle of Higher Education
Vanderbilt University’s new Next Step certificate program was featured in a story in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Next Step is an on-campus college for six students with intellectual disabilities, It supports their participation in classes and extracurricular activities with college students. Next Step students also get job training and work on basic life skills. The two-year Next Step program is among an estimated 250 postsecondary offerings for people with intellectual disabilities across the US, according to the National Down Syndrome Society.
Chronicle of Higher Education

New Jersey Joins other States to Ban Dated terms from State Law
New Jersey finally has approved legislation that removes outdated and demeaning descriptions of people with disabilities from state law and regulation. The bill eliminates such terms as “mentally retarded” and “feeble-minded.”
NJ Bans R Word

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In Memoriam

Activist Paul Longmore
Paul K. Longmore has died at the age of 64. Longmore was a professor of history and director of the Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University. He lived with complications of polio. In 1988, he received national attention when he burned a copy of his first book in an act of protest against federal disincentives that keep many people with disabilities from working and depriving them of public benefits based on income.
Paul Longmore Dies

Supported Employee Ernie Hernandez Jr.
Ernie Hernandez Jr. was stabbed to death in a street attack as he was walking to his group home in Ceres, CA. Family members say Hernandez, who had an intellectual disability, had been fearful and often talked about being teased, ridiculed, and called “retard.” Hernandez had worked for the City of Ceres and California Department of Transportation for 10 years,
Stabbing Kills Man with Intellectual Disability

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