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- #2: Recent History
- And #1...... Rick Warren, Ignorance, and Apologies
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And this trend of criminalizing rather than educating our children holds true even when said child of color is VISIBLY and OBVIOUSLY disabled. One black mother I talked to told me her child, was hitting himself, biting himself,not speaking, and had frequent meltdowns--and he did not receive an autism diagnosis until he was 12. Instead he received a ODD diagnosis.That horror of a label, Oppositional Defiant Disorder. And yes, it means exactly what it sounds like it means: misbehaving/criminal behavior
ReplyDeleteExactly! These issues are bad in isolation, and then compound one another for children of color with disabilities. smh
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