Kim Elmore
@KimEl
loves stories; thinks in patterns #Neurodivergent #literacy teacher | #disability and #EdEquity advocate | #WeAreJR | she/they | ♿️
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Big: Henrietta Lacks’ living relatives reached a historic settlement with the multi-billion-dollar biotech company accused of stealing her cells without her consent Her “HeLa” cells were the world’s first capable of replicating outside the body thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/scienc…
This is devastating news. How many more will follow:(
BREAKING NEWS: In an official notice emailed Tuesday morning, UNT President Neal Smatresk announced the dissolution of the Division of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access. Vice President of IDEA Joanne Woodard will also be retiring when the office is dissolved. Story to come.
ahh… I’ll hang on a bit longer then…
BREAKING: The X sign has been removed the top of the (formerly) Twitter building.
Sadly, I am deleting my account. I tried to hang in there, but the X rebrand makes me think of words like Xcluded, Xhausted, + Xed out (not Xcited or Xuberant) and so I must Xit…
The American Medical Association Withdraws Support for ABA and Opens the Door for More Advocacy for DIR jeffreyguenzel.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-am… << Thanks for sharing the detailed argument presented by the AMA for removing their explicit support of ABA as a “treatment.” About time!
Great interview with activist Helena Donato-Sapp, 14, on how teachers should champion students with disabilities at school >> A Teenager With Disabilities Implores Educators: 'Be My Champion' edweek.org/teaching-learn… #disability #StudentLeader #DisabledAndProud #education #equity
Curtis, an artist with ID, persistently asked to be free of the institutions she’d grown up in. Leading to the landmark Olmstead v. L. C. Supreme Court case, Curtis helped legalize our right to live in the community. She died at home. Rest in Power. npr.org/2022/11/05/113…
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Lois Curtis, who won a landmark civil rights case for people with disabilities, died
Lois Curtis, an artist with an intellectual disability who brought a landmark civil rights lawsuit that gave people with disabilities the right to live outside of institutions, has died.
If you are #autistic, and/or an #ActuallyAutistic parent, and would like to be interviewed about your experiences as part of our organization’s series on #Neurodivergent identity and culture, please reach out to us here.
A #disabled #HighSchool student found #virtual school improved her academic and social #access to classes, but her district is returning to in-person schooling. She reveals #accessibility barriers for SwDs and how virtual school can eliminate them. #a11y inputmag.com/features/disab…
Here's a short thread to exemplify how the term "Anglo-Saxon" is used to mean 'wyte', associated w/ wyte supremacy & misused not only by Americans but equally by British ppl, & also scholars. Before you steal my work, cite me. Here we go: #medievaltwitter 1/
Sony Pictures Entertainment: LeVar Burton should be the next host of Jeopardy! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/PctBz6BM via @Change
April is #AutismAwarenessMonth and after getting feedback from the autistic community, we are relaunching our Autism Awareness T-Shirt. This design uses a rainbow infinity symbol to represent pride in neurodiversity. Help us make a difference today >> bit.ly/3cHHqJO
"The median wage range for #childcare workers is a low of $8.94/hr in MS and high of $15.36/hr in Wash. DC. Poverty rates for #earlychildhood educators are 8x higher than for K-8 teachers, and in no state do wages meet the living standard." - @ljeaustin @CSCCEUCB #GovPrincipals
More autistic students are attending college, but what can colleges do to help them succeed? Check out our new white paper “Benchmarks to Inclusion,” and accompanying Easy Read and Plain Language resources, to learn more! autisticadvocacy.org/policy/briefs/…
ISO: Friends in Pokémon GO! My Trainer Code is 9475 9720 3312! Let’s GO!
<ugly snort-sniffs> how many times do I listen to this album before I’m not weeping over seven? <sniff>
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