For the first time, there is a federal minimum on the amount of care nursing home residents get every day. I talked to experts and workers about what that means and why it matters. 19thnews.org/2024/04/nursin…

The fact that people are more willing to wear a mask in zoos to protect animals, but not in hospitals to protect patients shows how badly governments and public health departments are failing.

Dear Colleagues:
We are excited to present a new issue of the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. Please read and please share widely within your networks!
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‘People like Connor are still left to die in squalor’: the truth, joy and tragedy behind Laughing Boy theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr…

Our team spent long hours reporting on and around Columbia’s campus on Thursday & Friday. I want to clear some stuff up. I didn’t see a single instance of violence or aggression on the lawn or at the student encampment. The student-led protest was peaceful and often very quiet…

How did we do it?

The session format was integral to the success of our The DocsWithDisabilities Initiative Disabilities Initiative #AccessInMedicine Summit. Each panel consisted of 3 parts:

Part 1: #Storytelling by #DisabledLearners launched every panel, helping us all better understand the #Barriers

Mama cat introduces her kitten to her favorite human.. 😊

A newspaper ad from 1835 revealed a slave auction larger than any historian had discovered. This is what we know about that auction — who orchestrated it, who profited and what happened to the enslaved people at the center of it. propublica.org/article/how-gr…

I don't want to be 'at the top.' I want a job that gives me health insurance and a livable income, and that doesn't take away my quality of life with hours-long commutes that completely drain me as a chronically ill person.

The Social Security Administration is making another update to how it calculates Supplemental Security Income benefits, this time to ensure its rules are applied more equitably across the country. disabilityscoop.com/2024/04/22/soc… #disabilities #specialeducation

The £100 million Work and Health Programme, to help Disabled people get into work, will be scrapped

Meanwhile the PM orders Disabled and vulnerable people into work by cutting benefits

This Government has failed Disabled people

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Bodybuilder and fitness influencer Jonas Filho, 29, dies after being rushed to hospital with Covid thesun.co.uk/sport/27437839…

All of these. I embrace being autistic & I don't care what people IRL think of me. Go ahead and judge me. I am not you. I will still be a kind person. Being weird is the new normal.

#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic

It is no wonder that research has shown that 80% of autistic people experience mental health problems at some stage in their lives…

A little extract from #GirlUnmasked that I shared with SWAN. 🫶

Eclipse watchers at Children's Museum may have been exposed to measles indystar.com/story/news/hea…

'Department of Finance officials said Wednesday financial eligibility for the Canada Disability Benefit will be determined based on household income, not the applicant’s income'.

The devil is in the details. If this is true, it is even more troubling.
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Baby turtle reacts to a wash

'Autism and most mental health disorders present differently in Black women…Because autism is looked at through such a White and male lens, people don’t recognize similar behaviors with traditionally feminine or Black interests.' 19thnews.org/2023/06/black-…

Bird flu risk to humans an ‘enormous concern,’ WHO says.

But let’s just wait and see right ? That works like a charm 👌🏻 globalnews.ca/news/10432339/…

Just sitting here thinking of all of the disabled and immunocompromised students who were told that giving them virtual attendance as an accommodation was 'impossible.'