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	<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Op-ed: Society can choose to help those most in need</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/19/op-ed-those-most-in-nee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[institutionalization]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[waiting list]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Clay Boatright]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Clay Boatright, writing in the Dallas Morning News, says institutionalization and abuse against people with disabilities are not a thing of the past, as was implied by the script of a recent episode of Law &#38; Order.
Families continue to face almost insurmountable physical, emotional and financial strains because of lack of support, he says, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Gulf War Syndrome is real</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/19/gulf-war-syndrom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[chronic illness]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[veterans]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gulf War syndrome]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tim Rutten]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Veterans Affairs Department]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From CNN, Los Angeles Times and elsewhere:
A new federal report concludes that Gulf War Syndrome is a real and debilitating condition suffered by more than 175,000 American veterans, or roughly one in four who served in the 1990-1991 conflict.
Gulf War Syndrome is characterized by memory and concentration problems, persistent headaches, fatigue, muscle and joint pain, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Stewart on Leary&#8217;s book: &#8216;Most of this is gibberish, Denis&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/19/most-of-this-is-gibberish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[autism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[celebrities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[comedy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Daily Show]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Denis Leary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jon Stewart]]></category>

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Appearing on &#8216;The Daily Show,&#8217; comedian Denis Leary insists his comments on autism have been taken out of context. (Video here.)
Leary&#8217;s new book, &#8220;Why We Suck,&#8221; includes a chapter called &#8220;Autism, Schmautism.&#8221; He says the chapter is a critique of parents who seek disability designations and special privileges for children who do not actually have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book: One mom&#8217;s acceptance of son&#8217;s autism</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/19/book-moms-acceptance-autism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/19/book-moms-acceptance-autism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[autism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[personal stories]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Annie Lubliner Lehmann]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disabiity news and commentary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt of a column by Marney Rich Keenan in the Detroit News:
What inspired Annie Lubliner Lehmann to write a memoir about raising her autistic 25-year-old son Jonah was not a success story or a happily-ever-after ending. It was not a triumph over silence, a disappearance of the disability through diet or a breakthrough in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom helps son&#8217;s classmates understand autism</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/18/mom-classroom-autism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/18/mom-classroom-autism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[autism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[parents]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[JoEllen Kessler; Ryan Kessler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
JoEllen Kessler thinks her son&#8217;s second-grade classmates would be more accepting of him if they understood his autism, so she makes classroom presentations and answers questions about his disability. &#8220;I think teachers in general are overwhelmed with responsibilities, and we don&#8217;t always feel like we&#8217;re the experts in everything,&#8221; said Lisa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom asks: Has my son has recovered from autism?</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/18/autism-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/18/autism-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[autism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[behavior]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[therapy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fred R. Volkmar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jayne Lytel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Leo Lytel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Washington Post, Jayne Lytel recounts her journey with her son Leo, who was labeled as autistic at age 2. She put her life on hold to assure that Leo had appropriate early intervention services &#8212; in his case, up to 35 hours a week of seven different therapies. Now that Leo is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op-ed: NC should honor, aid victims of sterilization</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/18/op-ed-sterilization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/18/op-ed-sterilization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[eugenics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[intellectual/developmental disabilities]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bev Perdue]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[feeble-minded]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sterilization]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Railey, writing in the Winston-Salem Journal, says North Carolina governor-elect Bev Perdue should make good on her promise to recognize and assist people who were victims of the state&#8217;s involuntary sterilization program.
The state sterilized more than 7,600 people between 1929 and 1974 as part of a eugenics program that sought to &#8220;better&#8221; society by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book examines high court support for sterilization of &#8216;unfit&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/18/buck-v-bell-lombardo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/18/buck-v-bell-lombardo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[NOT2BEMISSED]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[eugenics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Carrie Buck]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Oliver Wendell Holmes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Paul Lombardo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From USA Today:
A new book by legal historian Paul Lombardo of Georgia State University says scientists, officials and even her own lawyer conspired against Carrie Buck in the landmark legal case that bears her name, in an effort to justify Virginia&#8217;s compulsory sterilization of &#8220;feeble-minded&#8221; people.
The book, &#8220;Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High court rejects disability case</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/18/ada-lawsuits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/18/ada-lawsuits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ADA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wheelchair]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Americans with Disabilities Act]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jarek Molski]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lawsuits]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[paralyzed]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times, AP/Wall Street Journal:
The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to hear an appeal from a California man who has sued repeatedly over alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The court&#8217;s action lets stand a federal judge&#8217;s ruling that bars Jarek Molski from filing further lawsuits without special permission.
Molski [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CA court ruling: Only nurses can give students insulin</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/18/california-insulin-ruling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/11/18/california-insulin-ruling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ADA]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[diabetes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disability news and commentary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[injections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lawsuit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury News:
A Sacramento Superior Court judge has ruled that California public schools cannot allow nonmedical staff members to administer insulin to students with diabetes. The judge sided with the California Nurses Association, which had challenged a 2007 rule that allowed trained, unlicensed school staff &#8212; not just school nurses [...]]]></description>
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