tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post2947811711953349763..comments2024-03-26T23:57:42.268-04:00Comments on SpeEdChange: Wordsirasocolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-89736609845448283062008-05-11T17:24:00.000-04:002008-05-11T17:24:00.000-04:00I was so impacted by your BADD post that I wrote t...I was so impacted by your BADD post that I wrote the following blog - hoping to send some of my peers to read what you had written: <A HREF="http://schoolinginequality.blogspot.com/2008/05/there-is-no-normal.html" REL="nofollow">The destructive force of 'Normal'</A> <BR/>Far from troubled by your use of the word Retard - your work troubled my thoughts as an educator about accomidations and the pathologizing practices of special education.Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16465713128768451049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-50366060383103739312008-05-08T14:36:00.000-04:002008-05-08T14:36:00.000-04:00Quoth: ""I'm not following a plan written by a ret...Quoth: ""I'm not following a plan written by a retard undergrad," the reported statement of a university administrator at one of my undergraduate institutions, responding to a "non-diagnostic" campus accessibility plan I had written."<BR/><BR/>Wow.HomerTheBravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18261248973011130957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-50385785168624835092008-05-08T09:26:00.000-04:002008-05-08T09:26:00.000-04:00Goldfish:No apologies necessary at all. The conver...Goldfish:<BR/><BR/>No apologies necessary at all. The conversation has been worth having.<BR/><BR/>- Ira Socolirasocolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-53915264364475630412008-05-08T09:03:00.000-04:002008-05-08T09:03:00.000-04:00I'm afraid I didn't mention the Language Amnesty i...I'm afraid I didn't mention the Language Amnesty in the main Blogging Against Disablism Day post on May 1st. Every year I ask everyone to cut one another slack regarding language; to have discussion on language but allow people to describe themselves however they wish. This year I even wrote a guide to <A HREF="http://blobolobolob.blogspot.com/2008/04/language-of-disability.html" REL="nofollow"> The Language of Disability</A> to explain some of the differences of opinion; including the rejection of <I>people first language</I> and the reclamation of derogatory terms.<BR/><BR/>However, I didn't then mention it on the day and I feel I owe you an apology. Not that your commenters necessarily visited my site (well Dave did), but if they had and I had emphasised the Amnesty, they may have respected the way in which you chose to talk about your own experiences.The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.com