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San Francisco Chronicle
Better off in prison?
I'm beginning to hope my son will be sent to prison-- perhaps Death Row. Rob stands accused of no crime. And I am not an unloving mother. Let me explain: Rob has a developmental disability, and California is balancing the budget by gutting the services that keep him alive.
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Marin Independent Journal
People with disabilities protest spending on new San Quentin death row
More than 200 people with developmental disabilities, their family members and caregivers demonstrated Tuesday outside the main gate of San Quentin State Prison to protest a costly plan to build a new death row while budget cuts loom for services to the disabled.
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The Seattle Times
Special Needs Children, Around-the-Clock Parenting
Strangers, friends and even her own husband thought-- and told-- Cathy Schneider that if she'd only be stricter, her son Charlie would stop misbehaving.
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Pittsburgh Tribune
Attacking Autism
Reading a newspaper usually is an easy, even mundane task. But for someone with autism, it can be a Herculean effort in concentration and comprehension.
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TIME.com
A New Approach to Correcting Autism
The causes of autism remain largely shrouded in mystery, but there are some types of the disorder that can be traced to specific gene defects.
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ABC News
Marcellinos Celebrate Signing of Rosa's Law
By 1990, Congress passed the Americans With Disabilities Act that outlawed many forms of discrimination against disabled people, but it wasn't until much later that terminology changed.
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The Washington Post
Virginia expects scathing U.S. critique of system for caring for developmentally disabled
In coming weeks, civil rights lawyers from the U.S. Department of Justice are expected to deliver a searing critique of Virginia's system for caring for people with profound developmental disabilities.
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