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Ohio Agencies Evaluate 'Mental Retardation' Label (News Channel 5 Cleveland)
CLEVELAND -- Ohio agencies are grappling with whether they should keep the label "mental retardation" in their names as counterparts across the country do the same. -
UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute Researchers To Begin Widespread Newborn Screening For Fragile X Syndrome (Medical News Today)
Researchers at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute will launch the first widespread newborn screening for the genetic mutation that results in fragile X syndrome, the single most common inherited cause of mental retardation. Using a test they developed, the researchers will screen as many as 30,000 infants during the next five years as part of a $2. -
WAMHC is recertified (The Demopolis Times)
DEMOPOLIS — Kent Hunt, associate commissioner of the Alabama Dept. of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, announced last week that state mental health officials will start visiting 112 uncertified drug treatment programs next month to make sure that they meet state standards. -
Film 'Tropic Thunder' draws response from MRDD (The Canton Repository)
The making of the movie "Tropic Thunder" cost Dreamworks Studios millions of dollars. Efforts by the Stark County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to counter the film's message will cost taxpayers about $1,100. -
Some guidelines for positive speech (The Canton Repository)
• Think 'people first.' Say 'a woman who has mental retardation,' rather than 'a mentally retarded woman.' • Avoid words like 'unfortunate,' 'afflicted' and victim.' -
Stark MRDD buys theater commercial to counter 'Tropic Thunder' (The Canton Repository)
The making of the movie "Tropic Thunder" cost Dreamworks Studios tens of millions of dollars. Efforts by the Stark County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to counter the film's message will cost taxpayers about $1,100. -
Agencies debate changing names (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Ohio agencies are grappling with whether they should keep the label "mental retardation" in their names. -
MR/DD Board announces free , reduced price policies for school lunches this year (The Daily Jeffersonian)
MR/DD Board announces free , reduced price policies for school lunches this year Guernsey County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities has released information about its reduced-price and free meal policy for the coming school year. -
Drugs, mental health and the justice system (Austin American-Statesman)
At a forum on the justice system's treatment of mental illness and drug use, defense lawyer Leonard Martinez said Sunday that he wouldn't mind being put out of business if it meant the war on drugs would end. -
MRDD boards debate whether to keep 'mental retardation' in names (The Plain Dealer)
UPDATED: 04 :52 a.m. EDT, August 17, 2008 Onlookers on Friday get ready to join the annual Feast of the Assumption procession in Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood as a statue of Mary goes by.
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