By STEFANIE FOGEL, VARIETY.COM “When everybody plays, we all win,” is the message behind Microsoft’s emotional new Super Bowl commercial, its first in four years. The video debuted on Thursday and features a number of children with disabilities who talk about how Microsoft’s new Xbox Adaptive Controller helps them play video games. The tech giant […]
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Missouri’s disability services rise to be among nation’s best
By LEXI CHURCHILL, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH JEFFERSON CITY • The Show-Me state’s intellectual and developmental disabilities services have improved from one of the worst in the country to No. 4 overall — all within barely more than a decade. These findings are compiled in the latest Case for Inclusion report, generated by the ANCOR Foundation […]
Choosing Sides On School Inclusion
Special education should be a service for children, not a place they are sent. By JILLIAN BENFIELD, CONTRIBUTOR, HUFFPOST.COM It’s a journalist’s job to present the facts, to get both sides of the story and deliver their piece without bias. I haven’t worked as a journalist in three years, yet I realized recently that in […]