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#Learningdisability

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Mx Verda

UK politics, social security / benefit payments, mh--, semi-suicide threat, but also stubborn enough to live just to spite the wannabe-tories

Data Quine

Avoidable deaths in adults with learning disabilities | Our research | Scottish Learning Disabilities Observatory

"...Young adults (25-34 yrs) with learning disabilities are 9 times more likely to die of treatable causes of death..."

Difficult to read. Shocking stats here in Scotland.

sldo.ac.uk/our-research/determ

Scottish Learning Disabilities ObservatoryAvoidable deaths in adults with learning disabilities | Our research
#LearningDisability#Disability#Scotland
Dr. Or M. Bialik

There is a lot of underdiscussed ableist bullshit in #academia ( #AcademicChatter ) this paper highlights. But there is an interesting and important thing there - at least 10% of academics in #STEM (with a PhD) have a #LearningDisability !
Don't let LD stop you from aiming high
nature.com/articles/s41562-023
(I actually think there is a lot of under-reporting there; high intelligence can mask for some LD)

NatureSTEM doctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life earn lower salaries and are underrepresented among higher academic positions - Nature Human BehaviourDoctorate recipients with disabilities experienced early in life (at age <25 yr) working in STEM at academic institutions earned US$10,580 less per year than non-disabled workers and were underrepresented in higher academic positions.
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💡 Exploring the Intraparietal Sulcus (IPS) and its connection to dyscalculia reveals its crucial role in numerical processing. Dyscalculia, a learning disability, is linked to impaired function in the IPS, affecting the Approximate Number System (ANS). Understanding Weber's Law helps explain how numerical distinctions are made. Enhancing awareness can improve educational strategies for those affected. #Dyscalculia #NumericalProcessing #WeberLaw #IntraparietalSulcus #LearningDisability 💡

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Mx Verda

@teamseaslug instagram.com/reel/C_0ssPfsG0w too

zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/1131

And #disability #disabilityPrideMonth #accessibility #EaseOfAccess #sensoryImpairment #learningDifficulty (which is not the same as) #LearningDisability except some people also use #SpLD and #neurodivergence in a group could be one #neurodivergent person etc.

You can follow these hashtags or similar ones and try asking there too. Best to get varied perspectives since no one individual experiences everything

InstagramEliza Rain 🏳️‍🌈 on Instagram: "What wheelchair outfit issues do you have? And brands please photograph models sitting down so we can see these issues before we buy! Xx Wheelchair: @tgamobility #Access: Video description: Video begins with Eliza a White fem wheelchair user with blonde hair wearing blue jeans and a rainbow jump vest with the text ‘this trend but with my outfit issues as a wheelchair user…’ we then see Eliza in a blue dress with beads on it which is too low and making them uncomfortable with the text ‘flashing everyone when sat down’ we then see Eliza with a long red dress with the dress over their wheels with the text ‘long skirts getting trapped in the wheels’ we then see Eliza in a black short dress with the text ‘short skirts rising up even more’ #Disabled #Wheelchair #Fashion #Comedy"3,948 likes, 72 comments - disabled_eliza on September 12, 2024: "What wheelchair outfit issues do you have? And brands please photograph models sitting down so we can see these issues before we buy! Xx Wheelchair: @tgamobility #Access: Video description: Video begins with Eliza a White fem wheelchair user with blonde hair wearing blue jeans and a rainbow jump vest with the text ‘this trend but with my outfit issues as a wheelchair user…’ we then see Eliza in a blue dress with beads on it which is too low and making them uncomfortable with the text ‘flashing everyone when sat down’ we then see Eliza with a long red dress with the dress over their wheels with the text ‘long skirts getting trapped in the wheels’ we then see Eliza in a black short dress with the text ‘short skirts rising up even more’ #Disabled #Wheelchair #Fashion #Comedy".
Aby--not fast, just furious

When I drop my housemate at uni (she works there), we'll often pop past McDonald's so she can get an iced coffee. I'll use the app to order for her, especially if I have points to get it for free.

The app gives an order number made up of 2 letters and two digits for you to tell the drive through person... which means looking at the code on my phone and remembering it to tell the person, harder than it sounds for someone who has adhd, dyslexia and dyscalculia.

So, I make up images...
LR36 - 36 lesbian rogues
TH95 - 95 tiny hitlers
MB42 - 42 monkey butts

...I'm dreading the day I forget to translate it back to the code and just yell FIFTY FOUR OTTER DICKS at some poor customer service person trying to do their job.

#audhd#autism#adhd
Aaron

Calling someone an idiot or claiming there is a widespread learning disability that makes most people idiots is pretty ableist. If they're wrong, or they're jerks, that's probably the thing you should focus your commentary on.

Idiot is a slur that implies some degree of learning, intellectual, or developmental disability, and is often used to other non-disabled people by painting them as having such a disability. This cements the mental habit of treating such a disability as a form of inferiority, and of dismissing the views of those who are perceived as having such a disability. You are tearing down a whole group of marginalized people who are innocent bystanders when you use a word for them as an insult for others.

It's the slightly less offensive sibling of the r word. Please don't use it. Focus on behaviors, not abilities.

#ableism
#disability
#slurs
#insults
#IntellectualDisability
#LearningDisability
#DevelopmentalDisability

Alan Lewis

HILDA WEYL SOKOL, 1928-2022

legacy.com/us/obituaries/vnews

A 1981 symposium co-sponsored by Hilda Sokol of Dartmouth Medical School called to our attention, hereabouts, a sometimes neglected local hero, the Brattleboro Rat. The Rat has been a very useful creature in various medical research fields, ranging from diabetes to learning differences to depression. When I bring up this topic, people typically think I am joking; but actually it is very serious. We should raise a giant Brattleboro Rat statue in Pliny Park.

Brattleboro Rat Wikipedia short article

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brattleb

Many prestigious institutions and publications have posted learned articles about the Brattleboro Rat.

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#brattleboro #brattleborohistory #brattlebororat #clinicaldepression #dartmouthmedicalschool #diabetes #hildasokol #learningdifferences #learningdisabilities #learningdisability #medicalresearch #medicalscience #plinyparkbrattleboro #westbrattleboro

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