Carrie Dattels (she/her)

The euphemism Special Needs, after many years of service, has filed for retirement. Nondisabled people receive countless supports, so why should supports for disabled people get treated as something extra? #DisabilityPride youtu.be/Gz36y5F2rHs?si…

This! 🎉 Google Drive video uploads now have auto-generated captions 👏🏻 tinyurl.com/39ph7p2c @CAST_UDL #UDL #UDLcon #UDLcon2024 #AEM4all #AccessibilityMatters

Its that time of year when academics are writing their course policies, which means its time to highlight how the higher ed accommodation process is OFTEN ITSELF a barrier to accessible education. 1/17

It is crucial to listen and learn about these landscapes, enter these spaces with a desire to understand, and engage effectively. This approach helps build a community based on partnership, even if it means walking alongside conflict.

When you practice accessibility & being inclusive you get better at it. When you do it to only accommodate an individual or a situation your not building your skills, modeling for others or creating cultural systemic disability equity.

Zeeland peeps, there is also the Zeeland Area Action Committee (ZAAC)

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Instead of firing her, OI plans to give Hambley millions to resign hollandsentinel.com/story/news/pol…

“In the end, Ottawa County residents should expect the protection of law, and when there is a hearing for the removal of the Ottawa County Health Director, they should expect that one of the basic tenets of legal protections, the burden of proof, is respected by Counsel that seeks to remove her.” commissionerzylstra.com/news/the-burde…

@pocock2 We have a number of important meetings coming up. I would definitely urge you to attend those, for sure.

We need to stop depicting mobility aids as a sign/symbol of inability to be or do something. My mobility aids aren't a sign I'm incapable of doing a job or living a full life. They give me the opportunity to do my job, to live a full life.

Commissioner Roger Bergman, a non-OI-affiliated Republican, “The recent press release sent out by Mr Gibbs on Aug 28 is another example of telling lies or half-truths, which if told often enough, people will start to believe.” hollandsentinel.com/story/news/pol…

According to the county's administrative health officer, Administrator John Gibbs asked her to show a 2024 budget that is reduced by almost 50% by the end of the day on Thursday. mlive.com/news/grand-rap…

If you live and work in and love Ottawa County you should know what’s going on at the Board of Commissioners as well in your city governments, local public schools and libraries. Now is the time.

@vanwylenlibrary @FriedIntlCenter @HopeOrientation Is this available digitally?

Through his book “Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity,” Dr. Wei Yu Wayne Tan of the Hope College history faculty seeks to provide a new way of understanding not only disability but also history and culture. goho.pe/3OpaEia

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990. Every July we celebrate Disability Pride Month to commemorate the passage of this landmark civil rights law. Learn more: to.pbs.org/44ufa5B #ADA33 #DisabilityPrideMonth #DisabilityPride

@CraigTommola I want to retweet this, but there's no alt text.

#PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ It is patently absurd that continued cultural and political movements are necessary to ensure the place and participation in society of any group of people. 1/4

@LeahNBush Preach! I’m too exhausted by the process to comment more.

Yesterday was spent celebrating my sons 12th Bday which means today I lost access to my sons EMR and my 5th grader had to setup his own Mychart account that he is now legally in charge of. There are work around but the process is absolute BS and a waste patient/caregivers time!