For The Love of #$%# Bowling! There is nothing about having Down syndrome that can keep this dancer from kicking some competitor butt at a REGULAR-thats right I said it-Not At ALL Special-National Ballroom Dance competition. Teddy Kremer 29 took first place in the Foxtrot, Tango and Waltz in...

The “Spread the Word to End the Word” Campaign” has been getting a lot of public relations play lately while I think eliminating this word from our commonly used language is a worthwhile and important goal-I’m just not sure we can get there from here. Here is what I...

Organizations which continue to spend copious amounts of money on creating-work settings, home environments, even Snooze-land Rooms (to re-create the stimulus people with disabilities would receive the real world) are sending a strong message, people with disabilities must prove their...

I have been a fan of the Fox television comedy Glee for a while now. I like it for a lot of reasons, not the least of which has been the inclusion of the character of Becky, a member of the McKinley High Cheer Squad who has Down syndrome. It’s a portrayal which puts a person with a...

Better off Dead than Disabled?: The Royal Society of Canadian Experts Report released this week on End-of-Life decision making plays the all too familiar game of “duck and cover” regarding the effect of legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide on citizens with disabilities in...

Lady Gaga, Popular Media, and Pushing Back the Tide I have been thinking a lot lately about what the general consensus is within community about the quality of life experienced by persons with disabilities. The messages abound-and most of them are dark, cloaked in a notion of pain and misery,...

This entire abominable race towards chromosomal and developmental perfection has got me worried…does it remind anyone else of a little social experiment that went totally off the rails in Germany in the 1940′s? The creeping resurgence of institutional thinking, segregated settings,...