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5/4 for 504: A Virtual Town Hall
8:30 - 9:30 PM EST

We are just two days away! 🤩

Have you registered? If not, here's that link: secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/...

Check out our awesome panelists who will be joining us on Sunday!

#DisabilityJustice #DISrupt
The image is an informational poster featuring a panelist named Aubrey Sparks. It has a dark teal background with subtle, small dot patterns and several light blue accent lines in the upper right corner. The main text is in a bold, large sans-serif font with varying sizes for emphasis. It introduces Aubrey Sparks as a panelist, noting her role as the ACLU West Virginia Legal Director with pronouns listed as She/Her. There is a small color photograph of the panelist on the left side, depicting a person with long dark hair, wearing a red top and smiling at the camera in front of a brick wall. Next to the image is a block of text that reads: Aubrey will join the town hall as a panelist to update us on the Texas v. Kennedy case and the concerns that still remain. She will also speak to the intersectional impacts, especially how this case could affect trans rights and broader civil rights protections. The image features a promotional poster for a panelist named Seth DiStefano. The background is a dark blue with light blue and white dotted patterns. At the top, large white and teal letters display the words "Panelist Seth DiStefano." Below, white text indicates his position as the Senior Policy Outreach Director at the WV Center on Budget and Policy, along with his pronouns "He/Him" in teal. The left side of the image includes a photograph of Seth, who is wearing a dark suit and glasses, with a neutral expression. To the right of the photo, white text reads: Seth will join the town hall as a panelist to help us unpack the current and potential impacts of dismantling the Department of Education. He'll focus on how these changes could directly affect disabled students in West Virginia.
May 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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You are not broken. You are not a burden. You are powerful.

#DisabilityJustice #AffirmDisabledLives #RestIsResistance #DISruptWV #DISrupt #SoftAndRadical #DisabilityPride
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April 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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RFK Jr just claimed that autistic people will cost the US $1 trillion/yr by 2035. He took the figures from a paper by Blaxill & team (2023). Their paper was so full of mistakes that the Journal had to remove it. The Journal posted up this 'retraction notice' 👀
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Retraction Note: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (2021) 52:2627–2643 10.1007/s10803-021-05120-7 The Publisher and the Editors-in-Chief are retracting this article. After publication concerns were raised with respect to the methodology used in this article. Post-publication review by a number of experts in the field has confirmed the following: Misrepresentation of the incidence of autism and insufficient attention given to various other factors that might account for apparent changes in rates Use of unrepresentative data No valid justification for the mechanisms proposed for prevention Arbitrary and insufficiently justified use of the birth cohort 1931 as an origin for the time trend Use of higher estimates and assumptions that inflated costs, together with failure to consider discrete events that occurred in referent years, including changes in definitions, alternative surveillance methods, and alternative explanations which may have contributed to changes in diagnosis. In addition, the Conflict of Interest statement does not accurately reflect the non-financial interests of the authors.
April 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM