disability

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• 5/21/2023
  

  From "Shell Shock" to PTSD, Veterans Have a Long Walk to Health

  by Charles Glass

  Iraq War veteran Will Robinson brought himself out of a mental health crisis by hiking more than 11,000 miles of trail from the Pacific Crest to the Appalachian, following the century-old prescription of British military doctor Arthur Brock. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  1/10/2023
  

  John Fetterman and the Politics of Disability

  by Anya Jabour

  The personal became political for a historian who experienced disability similar to that affecting the new Pennsylvania senator on the campaign trail. The media must significantly readjust its framing of how disability impacts the ability to perform work. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  12/7/2022
  

  Beyond Yale and Stanford, Colleges are Dropping the Ball on Student Mental Health

  by David M. Perry

  If two high profile incidents are any indication, many colleges seek to move students with mental health concerns off campus as quickly and quietly as possible, putting their own liability and reputation ahead of the needs of students for supportive community. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/13/2022
  

  Will the Fetterman Campaign Teach Necessary Lessons About Disability Accommodations?

  by David M. Perry

  "There’s a long history of disabled Americans serving in high political office, but also an equally long history of both actual stigma and politicians hiding their disabilities over fear of stigma."

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• SOURCE: Global Sport Matters
  2/22/2022
  

  Building a Fitness Culture with Inclusion and Creativity?

  by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

  What will it take for the culture of fitness and bodily health to draw in people with disabilities and push out narrow normative ideas of the ideal body? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/11/2022
  

  The Soldiers Came Home Sick. The Government Denied It Was Responsible

  Veterans of post-9/11 wars are increasingly showing serious lung damage. Is the Pentagon concealing the role of "burn pits" in creating airborne toxins? 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  8/5/2020
  

  The Forgotten History of How Accessible Design Reshaped the Streets

  Long before the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 mandated curb cuts at all street corners, 30 years ago this summer, disabled people had pointed to the design of the street as a key locus of their political rights — the sidewalk that stands for being in public space, and therefore in the public sphere.

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• SOURCE: Georgia Public Broadcasting
  7/27/2020
  

  One Laid Groundwork For The ADA; The Other Grew Up Under Its Promises

  Judy Heumann and Imani Barbarin represent two generations of disability activists: those who helped to bring about the Americans with Disabilities Act and those who are now working to secure its gains and improve its shortcomings. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/22/2020
  

  ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: 16 Moments in the Fight for Disability Rights

  The disability civil rights movement has many distinct narratives, but the prevailing themes are of community, justice and equity.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  7/26/2020
  

  We’re 20 Percent of America, and We’re Still Invisible

  On the 30th anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, disabled Americans are asking for true inclusion.

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• 6/9/19
  

  The Challenges of Writing Histories of Autism

  by Jonathan Rose

  And how historians might overcome those obstacles.