After much harassment encouragement, I entered the blogosphere to document the delightful (or otherwise) and unexpected moments of my younger daughter's life. Hannah was born in 1998. She surprised us with her extra chromosome, and continues to surprise us with her humor, intellect and obstinacy. She takes our breath away. As my elder daughter once wrote, when Hannah was born, our family went from ordinary to extraordinary.
March 31, 2009
A New Day!!
Please go pledge to end the derogatory use of the word "retarded".
Years ago the medical terminology for classifications for lower cognitive funtioning were Idiot, Moron and Imbecile. These words have been completely incorporated into everyday speech. The same thing is happening with the word Retarded.
Let's work to clean up our speech and our attitudes towards individuals with cognitive disabilities!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Thanks for reminding that was today! I went and posted on it too. Hopefully we will see that new day come yet!
Such a great day!
Post a Comment