#Disability

the dislocating GM🦓 Talin in Idle Champions 13/1♿

mustangsart

A quick guide for new folks here about ableist language and language changes!1) Don't say 'differently abled' or 'handicapped'. The term is 'disabled'.2) Disability-first please! Say 'a blind person' NOT

Heather Morgan (she/her)👩‍🦼🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦

poweredbylove2

For those who follow me outside of the disability world/Canada/both:Canada is currently having a discussion about Medically Assisted Suicide or #MAiD with #BillC7During a pandemic.While cutting/underfunding support for disabled services/inc

Filippo Trevisan

filippotrevisan

OA PUBSocial research must include people w/ communication disabilities (1/10 people), but it can be challenging. In @QRJCardiff I explore solutions to make #FocusGroup #Research more inclusive #Accessibility #Inclusion #ADA30

Frank ⌁

FrankElavsky

Data visualization cares disproportionately far too much about designing for colorblindness relative to other disabilities that are more common (visual impairments included).(A thread on disability, race, and patriarchy in data

Radical Therapist Network

RadTherapistNet

Rest, self-care and taking time off work have complicated meanings when you experience chronic pain, are disabled or have a chronic illness. The non-disabled and neurotypical therapist lens of self-care

What The Trans!?

WhatTheTrans

According to the Guardian, people with learning disabilities are being given COVID-19 'do not resuscitate orders' (DNARs) wrongly. An important thread for those who are Neurodiverse who may be concerned.

Margaret King

margaret_nb

FYI if you know somebody who has a chronic illness, chronic pain, invisible illness or an invisible disability here are a few things to know. 1/.. 1. NEVER say it's

Emily Slackerman Ackerman

EmilyEAckerman

today on its 30th anniversary, i won't be spending my day celebrating the ADA itself. instead, i'm celebrating those who placed their disabled lives on the line so i would

G Peters ♿️ It's still a pandemic btw.

mssinenomine

Someone asked me to watch this disability film a white male wheelchair user and his partner made and in three minutes I've heard more ableism than in the entirety of

Hannah (GDA)

HannahGDA

We're sharing our experiences at the @SCDC_Org #DigitalPB2 conference today! First off - @IslaRMcIntosh kicks us off with an intro to @GDA__online .@GDA__online's approach to digital inclusion is informed by

National Medical Schools WP Forum

NMS_WP_Forum

And we are live! Day 5Excited to have @DIMAH_UK @LeedsWAMS @MedStudentErin @sallycurtis25 for a penultimate day of all things #WideningParticipation !#WAMSWeek20 #MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter @ukmedschools @enamhaque31 @little_dr_hann @HLA

Bethany Lilly

bethanylilly

Okay, there's a fight going on in my mentions, so let's do means testing for disability benefits 101. First, people with disabilities rely on a f*** ton of benefits usually.

Margaret Russell, MD

Margaret1473

I owe a huge debt of gratitude to my twin brother for the person I am today. He is the reason I'm a doctor. He's the "why" behind a lot

Sarah Blahovec

Sblahov

I'm browsing @TrainDems trainings for Democrats who want to run for office. They don't seem to have an accessibility statement or ways to request accommodations for their trainings. Then I

Tricia Pendergrast

traependergrast

Let's talk about the word healthyA tangent #Disability thread, by @_HarryPaul_ Healthy sounds good. We wall want to be healthy, right? In medical training and practice, healthy is used

polar, but ✨ depressed ✨

p01arst0rm

so the new climate of remote learning, telling students what they can and cannot wear, what their work environments need to be like etc its interesting to me as a

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