Riley Campbell, who is autistic, was assaulted behind a Eugene, Ore., shopping center five years ago by three men. When his battery case finally came to trial, Campbell, 35, overcame his lifelong reticence to deliver powerful evidentiary testimony that resulted in the trio’s conviction. His story is now featured in [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
The Clinton News: Employment has been a problem for many Mississippians in recent years, but the employment outlook for Mississippi’s youth and young adults with disabilities, particularly individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities, is especially bleak. In an effort to reverse this unfortunate trend, the Institute for Disability Studies (IDS) [...]
A note and a few pics from Anna Bodart, director of Day Programs at Garden House … While on our way to a nearby park this week, a group from Garden House got sidetracked by a sign reading, “Whitehall, House and Gardens,” so we decided to pull in to see [...]
Emily Anne Schaefer’s doctor has diagnosed her as developmentally disabled, yet that hasn’t kept the Frenchtown, N.J., woman from working as the facilitator for the Monday Morning project, part of the N.J. Council on Developmental Disabilities in Hunterdon County. As a child, Schaefer said, she suffered traumatic brain injuries from [...]
Michael Carey consistently lobbies New York legislators in the state’s capitol, Albany, to do more to protect people with developmental disabilities. Five years ago, his autistic son was killed by an overworked state-employed caregiver who sat on the boy to restrain him. The son, Jonathan, became the poster child of [...]
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