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Neglect in Plain Sight: The Overlooked Crisis in Group Homes
CW: Abuse, Neglect, & Death The death of Sean Feldsted, a disabled man from Manitoba who endured months of malnutrition before his death, is far more than a family tragedy. It starkly reveals the systemic failures of organizations and systems that are supposed to protect vulnerable people. Feldsted, who had intellectual disabilities and resided…
Whose Lives Get Saved?
CW: Ableism & Death In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, disabled Americans grappled with a terrifying question: Whose lives would be prioritized if medical resources were strained? For so many disabled people, the fear wasn’t hypothetical. It came from a long history of assumptions about the quality of disabled people’s lives. Now, as…
The Accommodation Divide: Who Gets What—and Why
Education today has a way of exposing how slippery equality can be. Research from The Annenberg Institute at Brown University uncovered something hard to ignore: in the U.S., students from wealthier families are much more likely to receive disability accommodations than their low-income peers. Looking at about a decade of student records alongside IRS data…
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