I’m all for a good news story. Trust me I have been using every search engine, meta tag, and google alert I use to find one. Unfortunately this story (even if this sounds like one on first blush) IT IS NOT. Part of being a writer, advocate and human rights supporter, is being able to...

A Letter from Simon Flint I am abundantly proud to introduce you today to a very talented guest blogger. Now admittedly I may be somewhat biased, as the blogger in question is my 12 year old son Simon Flint. Simon’s class (and I think all elementary school students in Alberta) were asked...

Distrust, Disrespect, Discrimination My latest round up of news from around the world on the state of Human Rights for citizens with disabilities seems to to chock full of stories about the ways in which these rights are being trampled on. Let me take you first to Texas where 18 year old Ryan...

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week in Canada. I am re-visiting an issue I have written about a great deal over the last years. Dual Diagnosis-The Intersection of Disability and Mental Illness. For years clinicians and service providers alike thought that a developmental disabilities and...

The Most Disabling Condition. Dr. Anne Snowdon has published her report “Strengthening Communities for Canadian Children with Disabilities”. Commissioned by Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, the study concludes that most children with disabilities in Canada are...

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...

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...

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...

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...