Quote 1: “Over the past fifty years the term used most often to describe this disability, including IDEA, has been mental retardation. But in 2010, President Obama signed a law changing the term to intellectual disability in federal laws, including IDEA.”
Text to Self: During my junior and senior years of high school, our school’s Best Buddies program launched a campaign entitled “Spread the Word to End the Word”. The goal of this campaign was to educate the community to stop saying the R word and the negative effects of doing so. For about a month, each day at lunch they would have a table where both students and teachers could pledge to stop saying the “R” word. Each day numerous students and staff signed the pledge. After signing the pledge you wrote your name on a piece of paper. At the conclusion of the campaign, Best Buddies, made a paper chain of all the people who signed saying they would stop using the “R” word. The chain consisted of hundreds of names and was draped across the cafeteria for all to see. Subsequent to this campaign I noticed that in the hallways I rarely heard the “R” word, and if I did there was usually another student around who would kindly correct them. Using the “R” word in inappropriate contexts has …show more content…
Her mother from what I understand was poor and unmarried when she gave birth. Additionally, she was an alcoholic. Throughout her life she has battled some of the effects. Unfortunately, she too was once an alcoholic with a severe addiction. Her alcoholism was a problem for numerous years, but eventually she sought treatment. As a result of her addiction my family ultimately had to remove her from our lives until she sought treatment. From what I have heard she is doing much better, but it has been an extremely challenging experience to overcome some of her side effects from fetal alcohol syndrome as well as her own struggle with being an
Text to Self: During my junior and senior years of high school, our school’s Best Buddies program launched a campaign entitled “Spread the Word to End the Word”. The goal of this campaign was to educate the community to stop saying the R word and the negative effects of doing so. For about a month, each day at lunch they would have a table where both students and teachers could pledge to stop saying the “R” word. Each day numerous students and staff signed the pledge. After signing the pledge you wrote your name on a piece of paper. At the conclusion of the campaign, Best Buddies, made a paper chain of all the people who signed saying they would stop using the “R” word. The chain consisted of hundreds of names and was draped across the cafeteria for all to see. Subsequent to this campaign I noticed that in the hallways I rarely heard the “R” word, and if I did there was usually another student around who would kindly correct them. Using the “R” word in inappropriate contexts has …show more content…
Her mother from what I understand was poor and unmarried when she gave birth. Additionally, she was an alcoholic. Throughout her life she has battled some of the effects. Unfortunately, she too was once an alcoholic with a severe addiction. Her alcoholism was a problem for numerous years, but eventually she sought treatment. As a result of her addiction my family ultimately had to remove her from our lives until she sought treatment. From what I have heard she is doing much better, but it has been an extremely challenging experience to overcome some of her side effects from fetal alcohol syndrome as well as her own struggle with being an