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Knife Attacker Wanted to Rid Japan of the Disabled, Authorities Say
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on Jul 26, 2016
A former employee who had expressed strong views about euthanizing disabled people returned to the facility with a bag of knives at around 2 a.m., methodically slitting the throats of patients as they slept.
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What losing my hearing is teaching me about the suffering of others
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on Jul 23, 2016
It wasn’t that I didn’t understand that she suffered, back when she was old and deaf and I was young and not. It’s that whatever she suffered from was something I didn’t need to be concerned with. It didn’t occur to me that imagining the humanity of people other than myself was my responsibility. And yet the root cause of so much grief is our failure to do just that.
The National Basketball Association announced Thursday that it would not hold next season’s All-Star Game in Charlotte, N.C., the most significant fallout yet from state legislation that eliminated specific anti-discrimination protections for lesbians, gays and bisexuals.
Mrs. Horton (who once designed children’s wear but stopped to start her family) and her company, MagnaReady, are part of a new sub-sector in fashion: what Chaitenya Razdan, the founder and chief executive of Care and Wear, has christened “healthwear.” The sector takes the tools and techniques (and trends) of fashion and applies them to the challenges created by illness and disability.
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All for one and one for all: a playground for disabled and non-disabled kids alike
Posted by ADA Sign Depot on Jul 14, 2016
“This is where children forget they have (special) needs,” said Deborah Wiebrecht, executive director of Variety. “This is a playground for all children. They play together and they become just Johnny or Susie. We provide special equipment, not special treatment.”
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