Only in America. Or at least, I’d like to think so. A woman accused of neglecting her severely disabled son and letting him starve to death was sentenced yesterday to nine years in prison. According to prosecutors, Angela Cheral Bernard, 34, of Rolando called 911 on Dec. 17, 2005, to report her son’s death. An autopsy on Dec. 30 revealed that the boy weighed 28 pounds and had skin ulcers with protruding bone. Brandon, her son, was born with cerebral

Stumbled across a neat little site today called soulfulencounters.com, which is a bit like Facebook or Myspace, except it’s targeted specifically at those with a disability. Soulful Encounters has grown from a small disabled dating site to a large online community for the disabled. Our online community welcomes anyone, with any disability and at any stage of life. Find what you need, whether that be a relationship, companionship, friendship or lasting love. And here at Soulful Encounters you will always

Thanks to Terry for bringing this to my attention! A local mother has reached out to the media after she says a school went overboard while restraining her child. Isaiah Moore came home from Oak Hammock K-8 last April looking like he had just been in a fight. But the autistic boy’s injuries didn’t come from a scuffle – he was restrained by a school staffer. Moore’s mother obtained a tape from a security camera at the school. She says

Screw it. I’m just gonna shut up and let you watch it. Take note those of you who commissioned those gut-wrenchingly insipid “You block my space, you block my day” ads – this is more like it!

I for one certainly didn’t, and I was shocked/amazed/inspired (yes, all three at once) to discover that one of the world’s most prominent cities, and a previous host of the Olympics and Paralympics, has a man at the helm who is in fact disabled! His name is Sam Sullivan, and he was elected the Mayor of Vancouver in 2005, after serving 12 years as a City Councillor. He is a quadriplegic after breaking his neck when he was aged just

Serbia might seem like another planet to most of us, but that comparison seems apt when you read about the recent atrocities being committed in the central European nation against thousands of disabled people. Reports of disabled adults and children being physically tied to beds and cribs for long periods of time, sometimes years, along with reports of filthy conditions within the institutions that are set up to ‘care for’ disabled people, are all part of a damning report released