Sticks, Stones and Stigma…Use of the Derogatory Term “Retard”

This is the title of an article in the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities a Journal of Policy, Practices and Perspectives from the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD). The article is from April 2010 and I found it thumbing through the stack of publications that Cindi Kirchmeier makes available to staff. The title […]

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“The Lives they Left Behind – Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic”

We will have an opportunity January through March to view an exhibit entitled “the Lives they Left Behind…Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic” at the University of Washington’s Odegaard Library that promises to be very thought provoking and moving as the exhibit chronicles 9 individual lives. The exhibit web site explains the story behind the […]

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