Delayed is Denied Jan16

Delayed is Denied

Life Saving Transplant Denied As Child has Developmental Disability So much of the work Inclusive Humanity has been engaged in over the last years has been in conjunction with groups and individuals who see how people with disabilities are made vulnerable within the medical community. Groups...

Inclusive Benefits Jan09

Inclusive Benefits

Here is some GOOD NEWS! We have known for a long time that inclusion in schools was good for students with disabilities but we haven’t been very good at talking about why it’s good for students without disabilities. Sure we have extolled the civic and moral benefits of inclusion...

Prenatal Screening

Cheaper, more Accessible Prenatal Screening-Keeping Out that Which is Unwanted. Three major pharmaceutical companies in the US have been vying to bring cost effective prenatal screening tests (using the new protocol of using a single maternal blood sample to prenatally determine Down syndrome...

Inclusion Gone Wrong Dec31

Inclusion Gone Wrong

When well intentioned ideas, couched in pity and the underlying assumption that adults with disabilities are really just children in adults bodies go bad, they go REALLY bad.  Unfortunately we have all heard the ignorant viewpoint that “while he is 42 years old, his mental age is really...

Home in Hot Water

Are Group Homes Really Safer Than Community Settings? Today in the Calgary Herald, reporter Don Braid is reporting on the tragic death of a Calgarian with developmental disabilities who was under the support of Alberta’s PDD (Persons with Developmental Disabilities) funding body for...