Year: 2011

Sally Labrador, seen above, has just been certified by the Delta Society as a "Read with the Dogs" canine assistant–she's ready to work with kids in public schools. Sally spends a lot of time with readers and writers in Iowa City where her mom Jeanette directs the Iowa City of LIterature non-profit arts organization. We are pleased to be a part of Sally Labrador's fan section!

 

SK

http://www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/2011/en/index.html

This story comes to us via Inclusion Daily. As a person with a disability who has been humiliated on airplanes more than once, I can attest that the airline industry is still doing a woeful job of educating its workforce about the laws of the United States.

 

SK

 

Quadriplegic Passenger Forced Off Frontier Flight
(KMGH)
June 21, 2011

DENVER, COLORADO– [Excerpt] A quadriplegic man from Fort Collins was forced off a Frontier Airlines plane because a pilot said it wasn't safe for him to fly. 

His mother, Kathleen Morris, said there was no problem two days earlier when her son flew Frontier from Denver International Airport to Dallas to attend a family wedding. 

But Sunday afternoon, when he boarded in Dallas to come home, John Morris and his family said they were humiliated. 

"When a flight attendant saw John strapped in, they said they would have to clear it with the captain," said Kathleen Morris.

Entire article:
Quadriplegic Passenger Forced Off Frontier Flight
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/28291011/detail.html

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Tell me again the story of our family’s hunger

& how it wrapped the house in superstition

 

As if the moon was in the walls

For that was the year we played the game called

 

Let's pretend we're eating.

We raised our spoons you still remember,

 

The wheelwright built three caskets

From a single broken sleigh…

 

 

 

 

A man whose eyes are shot through with gold thread,

Whose eyes are numbers, sums foretelling the wires–

 

Whose lips steer a song of the harvest knife

Though there are many, too many to be sung.

 

A man can be the wheat at the end of summer,

Can be a wheel, innocent, his pulse

 

The revolutions of a long, clear night of love.

& when September comes

 

A man can be the first leaf in the fountain–

Perfect, death's butterfly…

 

 

S.K.  

 

The following excerpted news article comes to us via Inclusion Daily:

 

British Airways Turns Girl Away Because She Has Down Syndrome
(Daily Mail)
June 20, 2011

LONDON, ENGLAND– [Excerpt] A girl of 12 was refused a plane ticket by British Airways staff because she has Down's syndrome. 

The mother of Alice Saunders was stunned when she was told her daughter could not fly unaccompanied as it was the company's policy not to accept passengers with Down's travelling alone. 

Heather Saunders, 49, had phoned the airline to book Alice a flight from Gatwick to Glasgow. 

Heather said: 'I explained I wanted her to travel as an unaccompanied minor, she was 12 years old, she had Down's syndrome and was very independent. 'The woman said, "Our policy says we don't take children with Down's syndrome".'

When asked why, the BA customer service agent responded: 'Because we've had problems in the past.'

Entire article:
BA turns girl away because she has Down's syndrome: Alice, 12, barred from Gatwick-Glasgow flight
http://www.InclusionDaily.com/news/2011/red/0620b.htm
Related:
British Airways apologizes for turning away girl with Down syndrome (MSNBC)
http://www.InclusionDaily.com/news/2011/red/0620c.htm

 

Children Receive International Disability Rights Treaty In Braille, Audio And Sign Language
(UNICEF)
June 17, 2011
CETINJE, MONTENEGRO– [Excerpt] Six children with visual and hearing impairments have received the first copies in the Balkans of the child-friendly version of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Braille, audio and sign language.
It is part of the ‘It’s About Ability’ campaign in support of the inclusion of children with disabilities, a UNICEF-supported Government of Montenegro initiative which began in 2010. More than 100 partners have joined the campaign to help change attitudes and practices of the general public towards children with disabilities.
Around 200 senior government officials, Ambassadors, representatives of the media, civil and private sector, school principals, teachers, parents and children from all over the country gathered as President of Montenegro Filip Vujanovic launched the Convention in Braille, audio and sign language at a special event.
The President gave the first copies of the Convention to the six children in the town of Cetinje, while the remaining 500 copies in Braille and 100 copies with audio and sign language versions will be distributed all over Montenegro.
Entire article:
Disability Rights Convention distributed in Braille, audio and sign language in Montenegro
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/montenegro_58880.html?q=printme

I do not like Henry Kissinger. Like Senor Hitchens I believe Kissinger is a war criminal.
I do not like green eggs and ham, but I like them more than Henry Kissinger.
I do not like powdered milk.
Jeffrey Deaver’s new James Bond novel “Carte Blanche” is a disappointment. One should have known from the title.
David McCullough’s new history of Americans in Paris in the early 19th century is not a disappointment, though it’s a bit baggy.
Sometimes good info saves a book.
Global warming is a disappointment.
The fly in my room is disappointed but he doesn’t know it.
Not knowing you are disappointed is what the church calls grace.
Strictly speaking, grace can be a disappointment. See John the Baptist.
I do not like Herod. He reminds me of Henry Kissinger. I think Kissinger should visit Chile. Right now.
Off to cause ideas to scatter and coalesce. This morning I am a human studies department.

The Inner Life of Henry Kissinger
Now what?
Now what who?
Who who what who?
Sutton Hoo.
What Ho!
Ho Chi Minh.