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SEPTEMBER 2000
Did it happen in your area?

Friday, September 1:
"We go where he goes." --Arc of Ohio's Robert Neubert, on the agency's
campaign to inform Gov. Bob Taft of the urgent need to shorten the waiting
list for services (Ohio)

"It is discrimination in a sense that it involves assuming this person is
difficult, assuming he is an illegal immigrant, while he is in fact a Hong
Kong person."--Anna Wu Hung-yuk, chairwoman of the Equal Opportunities
Commission, talking about immigration officials decision to refuse entry for
Yu Man-hon, a Hong Kong teen with autism (Hong Kong)

Tuesday, September 5:
"I'm comfortable with who I am. I'm cool." --Andrew Lackey, 19, an actor who
has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair (Missouri)

"He has to interact with society and people have to interact with him and
not be afraid. I see his classroom interacting with him with no
problem." --Meredith Markov, whose ten-year-old son David has Down syndrome
and attends an inclusive classroom (New Jersey)

Wednesday, September 6:
"Whether the telethons come out and say it or not, the message is clear:
disability is unacceptable. Many of us who have them beg to
differ."--Michael Volkman on the message the public often gets from
telethons about people with disabilities (New York)

"I think they'll see that we're most likely harder workers than other people
if they'll focus on what we can do instead of what we can't." --Christina
Snyder, who says employers should not turn her away just because she has a
disability (Colorado)

Thursday, September 7:
"Sometimes she thinks I'm her puppy." --Kevin Troper, 11, talking about his
golden retriever service dog Sweet Pea (Georgia)

"You couldn't touch a spot on her body and not touch an ant bite." --Betty
Lyons, whose daughter lives in an institution and spent several hours lying
in a bed full of fire ants (Alabama)

Friday, September 8:
"Are you coming home to eat?" --Ryan "Max" Lesneski, 7, to his mom Deanna
who continues a sit-down protest against her son's school for not providing
him with the supports she believes he needs (Pennsylvania)

"The curfew one (citation) is just a matter of paperwork. Instead of saying
that everyone has a 9 p.m. curfew, we will have to set the curfew at 9 for
each client, on a case by case basis." --Wayne Kittley, spokesman for Mexia
State School, talking about how simple it will be to correct resident rights
violations which will cost the institution most of its funding (Texas)

Monday, September 11:
"When I was born, the doctors told my grandmother I would never walk or
talk." --Marguerite Maddox, 44, who has cerebral palsy and next month will
be bicycling from Denver to Chicago and from Chicago to New York City
(Michigan)

"No matter how lofty the motive, this can't be condoned." --Superior Court
Judge James A. Kennedy as he sentenced James J. Cummings, 73, to five years
in prison for stabbing to death his son who had autism while he was in a
nursing home bed (New Jersey)

Tuesday, September 12:
"Mom, this is so cool!"--Joe Haake's sister Jennifer, upon seeing, piled up
in her front lawn, the bicycles of six boys there to visit her little
brother who has cerebral palsy (California)

"They are not guinea pigs, or sex objects. It is imperative that these
practices stop and that those responsible be punished."
--Pierre Gonzales de Gaspard, attorney for ADHY, on allegations that 14
girls in a French home have been sterilized over the past five years
(France)

Wednesday, September 13:
"Our house is just beautiful." --Kimberly Masterson, talking about the
accessible home she and her roommate, who both use wheelchairs, own and
helped design (Pennsylvania)

"How can they do that?" --Jada Young, on murder charges filed against her
brother, claiming he strangled to death a fellow nursing home resident
(Oklahoma)

Thursday, September 14:
"He focuses on something and he works on it until he gets it
finished." --Margot Kuebler, talking about her son Scott, 17, an Eagle Scout
who recently became the first person from his state to earn a Congressional
Award Gold Medal, and happens to have Down syndrome (South Carolina)

"I don't know how you make them part of the district if they're down in the
basement by themselves."--Gilda Tesser, talking about how her 11-year-old
son and five other students were 'mainstreamed' this year into their local
district by being isolated in a special education room in the school's
basement (New York)

"In fact, these students' reactions and learning patterns have caused Eachus
to question whether the intelligence tests accurately showed their true
learning potential."--Columnist John Williams, on a technology which allows
people to use brain waves, eye movements and facial muscles to perform tasks
(California)

Friday, September 15:
"They were watching...If anything, they looked concerned." --Ted Balant,
talking about the orangutans at the Toronto Zoo after his five-year-old son
Tommy, who has autism, fell into their exhibit Wednesday (Ontario)

"We are reminded that our defense of life and rejection of the culture of
death demand that we acknowledge the dignity and the positive contribution
of our brothers and sisters with a disability."--Archbishop Desmond Connell
talking about a new booklet which promotes the 'full inclusion and
participation of people with disabilities' in the Dublin Diocese (Ireland)

Monday, September 18:
"Even for us working in this area, we are very much surprised to see that so
many disabled people are so gifted and talented."
--Deng Pufang, son of former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who is traveling
across the United States with the China Disabled People's Performing Arts
Troupe (New York)

"Sure, other kids could use it too." --Joseph Pennacchio, responding to
concerns from a county freeholder board, that his idea for an accessible
playground might segregate and isolate children with disabilities (New
Jersey)

Tuesday, September 19:
"The power of disability is that it makes people become better than they
might be." --David Crombie, the former mayor of Toronto who focused on
increased accessibility throughout the city in the 1970's, and whose
4-year-old granddaughter has cerebral palsy (Ontario)

"I don't want to go back into that society and listen to vicious things
about my son." --Farah Choudhry, a citizen of Pakistan seeking asylum in the
United States, on the claim that her son Umair would be tortured and
persecuted because of his autism if they were to be returned to their home
(Illinois)

Wednesday, September 20:
"He had notice -- the notification was the American Disabilities Act and
that he was supposed to be in compliance by 1992."
--Attorney John Burris, responding to Clint Eastwood's claims that he should
have been notified before being sued for violating the ADA (California)

"I'll be putting my kids to bed tonight." --Deanna Lesneski, after ending
her 19-day protest against her son's school yesterday (Pennsylvania)

Thursday, September 21:
"One of the things that we are going to be working on is to ensure that the
web is accessible for people with disabilities, so it's not like there will
be a separate Worldwide Web for people with disabilities and another one for
everyone else." --Tom Kalil, Special Assistant to the President for Economic
Policy, talking about several initiatives the president is expected to
announce to ensure equal access to technology for people with disabilities
(Michigan)

"Assistive technology, when applied appropriately and effectively, can mean
the difference between dependence and independence." --Jan McSorley, talking
about money designated for Austin schools to train teachers how to use
assistive technology with students who have disabilities (Texas)

Monday, September 25:
"The developmentally disabled are born in every neighborhood, and we don't
see why they shouldn't be allowed to live in any neighborhood." --John
Barber, whose organization's efforts to develop community homes for former
institution residents are being resisted by neighbors (Pennsylvania)

"How long have you been the way you are?" --Disability rights advocate
Elizabeth Ray, who has cerebral palsy, in response to a state trooper who
had asked her the same question (Alabama)

Tuesday, September 26:
"Congress chose a comprehensive remedy because it confronted an
all-encompassing, inter-connected problem; to do less would be as
ineffectual as 'throwing an 11-foot rope to a drowning man 20 feet offshore
and then proclaiming you are going more than halfway'." --From a document
filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, supporting the Americans with
Disabilities Act (Washington, DC)

"Making nursing home employment more attractive was not the intent of the
Olmstead decision." --Paul Spooner, president of the National Council on
Independent Living, on President Clinton's recent proposal to give $1
billion to nursing homes (Washington, DC)

Wednesday, September 27:
"It is Anne's home." --Dave Denniston, talking about the supported living
arrangement he helped develop for his daughter (California)

"Gimme five." --Tony Labahn, joking with members of the soccer team he
coached. Labahn, who was born with no arms or legs, died this past weekend
(Minnesota)

Thursday, September 28:
"This is very good." --Deanna Lesneski, on news that the state House
unanimously approved a bill that would force schools to let students with
asthma take their asthma medicine on their own (Pennsylvania)

"My family's blessed, too!" --Member of a crowd of voters with disabilities,
responding to gubernatorial candidate Gordon Humphrey's comment that his
family has been 'extraordinarily blessed' not have a person with a
disability (New Hampshire)

Friday, September 29:
"If it's already been done, why can't it be done again?" --Mitzi Williams,
who wants her 5-year-old son Josh, who has cerebral palsy, to go to
kindergarten at his neighborhood school (West Virginia)

"They said we had a bad attitude and needed to change it." --Ryo Misawa,
talking about the response he got from government officials when he pointed
out that the Tokyo transportation system was not accessible (Japan)
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Sent by:
Dave Reynolds, Editor
Inclusion Daily Express
Disability Rights News Service
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