Here, I provide context around some claims made in stark black and white even though the reality doesn't quite fit the constructed narrative, a key feature of parent-first disability writing.
Earlier this month, Will offered a scathing critique of Trump's "disability," writing in The Washington Post that the president has "an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence".
"I find that the [health authority] failed to establish that it had accommodated [Horrocks'] special needs associated with her disability," wrote adjudicator Sherri Walsh in her decision released Tuesday.
Shabena's case manager at SKIP of New York, an organization for children with developmental disabilities, wrote to Bill Gates and to Oprah Winfrey.
According to a recent Harvard FXB Working Paper, "Empowering People with Intellectual Disabilities,"written by Heather very shortly before her death, in this field "the US resembles a developing country, wherein only the wealthy can buy the health care and social services they need".
In fact, when I suggested that the young women with disabilities write about their day, one of them said to me: "It felt so good to write about my day, because no one's ever asked me that before". This stopped me in my tracks - and got me thinking about all the other conversations these girls were not having.
"These policies disproportionately target pupils with impoverished histories of abuse, neglect, or learning disabilities," wrote Atiya.
15 teenagers, both with and without disabilities, wrote their own scripts and produced their own 60-second films over the course of the 5-day workshop.
Reports are generally favourable, with Srin Madipalli of Disability Horizons writing that "virtually all of the Tokyo metro system has some kind of wheelchair accessibility".
Then, every hour of clinic time equals over an hour of desk work: responding to the patient phone and email messages, checking labs, communicating with specialists, reviewing and signing physical therapy and visiting nurse orders, filling out disability forms, writing necessary chart notes, and documenting for billing.
During their tenures, each one has promoted a variety of causes, including visual literacy, readers with disabilities and writing for young adults.
