It took a member of the audience to raise the subject of disabilities.
In fact, I think she approaches it in a subtly elegant way that not only takes the heaviness out of the subject of disabilities, but also lets her audience know she's a strong, poised woman who's not going to let this, nor her 98 other problems get the best of her.
The next time the subject of disabilities or specifically autism comes up, it would be nice if people would respond with the compassion of Shawn Kelley, and it would be even nicer if people think not of the Newtown killer but of little Madison Monahan, whose determination marks her as an extraordinary human being.
The flagship production, "The Scarlet Ibis" (with a quasi-minimalist score by Stefan Weisman), is designed for audiences young and old; it views the subject of physical disability through the lens of a Southern writer's anguished childhood.
The second period was initiated when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals (in Schisler v. Heckler) stated that a treating physician's opinion on the subject of medical disability is binding unless contradicted by substantial evidence.
In a separate appeal to the justices, Johnson's lawyers also brought to their attention the "difficult subject" of intellectual disability -- a matter the Supreme Court has confronted a number of times in the context of the death penalty.
Injury occurring in young adulthood was found to be an important cause of long-term disability as between a third and a half of subjects with onset of disability after the age of 16 had injury as a cause.
2 It is a strong and consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality in middle aged and elderly subjects 3 5 and of disability in older populations.
Yet friendship notwithstanding, I can't imagine a better illustration of the inspiring but politically fraught subject of design and disability than the talk she gave last winter at the TED2009 Conference in Long Beach, California.
Subjects averaged 20 months of disability, and 51% had preinjection spine surgery (average, 1.7 procedures involving up to 3 spinal segments).
