Disabled People Must Fight for a Different Society
“The oppressor must suffer, like the oppressed,” hip-hop artist Akala raps on his latest track Find No Enemy, and the message is a powerful one. For disabled people, our needs and wishes are being...
View ArticleHold Your Ground and Stay Calm
Last Friday, my wife and I had our first Committee on Special Education (CSE) meeting for our daughter Ava. For the last two months, we’ve been anxiously checking the mail each day wondering when we...
View ArticleWATCH: The Award Winning ‘TALK’ (Part 2)
From our friends across the pond at the UK’s Disability Commission comes the award-winning ‘Talk’. The videos portrays a society in which non-disabled people are a pitied minority and disabled people...
View ArticleWATCH: The Award Winning ‘TALK’ (Part 1)
From our friends across the pond at the UK’s Disability Commission comes the award-winning ‘Talk’. The videos portrays a society in which non-disabled people are a pitied minority and disabled people...
View ArticleFree IEP Clinic for Los Angeles Area Residents
The Law Offices of Bonnie Z. Yates, Inc. is holding a non cost IEP Clinic titled “What the heck happened?” Funny…those are words that passed through my head when my wife recently walked out of our...
View ArticleNew York Office of Special Education Policy Briefs
New York State’s Department of Education’s Office of Special Education announced today the issuance of three new policy briefs on the topics of: Functional Behavioral Assessments Use of a Time Out...
View ArticleWATCH: “Glee” Co-Stars Lauren Potter and Jane Lynch in Not Acceptable R-word PSA
“Not Acceptable” is a powerful and compelling 30 second television PSA which gives voice to a variety of diverse communities each of whom expresses that it is not acceptable to call them by what were...
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