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<DIV><FONT color=#150e00 size=4 face=Calibri>Donovan, </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#150e00 size=4 face=Calibri>Sure, and it may make sense
medically. Educationally we've decided it is pejorative for our
purposes One other practice we've been asked to use, because what we
call a person does truly define them for others, is: Refer to students in
special education as "children with autism" rather than "autistic
children." The distinction is subtle, but important, I think.
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<DIV><FONT color=#150e00 size=4 face=Calibri>Sue</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com
href="mailto:donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com">Donovan Arnold</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:37 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=rforce2003@yahoo.com
href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">Ron Force</A> ; <A
title="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision 2020</A> ; <A
title="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">Sue Hovey</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Outdated Language
Targeted</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sue,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We agree on not
lumping all spectrums of autism into one for the obvious reasons you
listed.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">While "retarded" is
a pejorative that should not be used to define a person, the same logic
and reasoning for not lumping all spectrums of autism together should also
be applied to not lumping the term "mental retardation" with
epilepsy, <A title=Autism
href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Autism"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #002bb8"
title="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Autism CTRL + Click to follow link">aspergers</SPAN></A>,
<A title="Cerebral palsy"
href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Cerebral_palsy"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #002bb8"
title="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Cerebral_palsy CTRL + Click to follow link">cerebral
palsy</SPAN></A>, or <A title="Alzheimer's disease"
href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease"><SPAN
style="COLOR: #002bb8">Alzheimer's disease</SPAN></A>
.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
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face="Times New Roman">Profound mental retardation<o:p></o:p></FONT>
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face="Times New Roman">Severe mental retardation<o:p></o:p></FONT>
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face="Times New Roman">Moderate mental retardation<o:p></o:p></FONT>
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face="Times New Roman">Mild mental retardation<o:p></o:p></FONT>
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align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman">50–69<o:p></o:p></FONT>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Borderline intellectual
functioning<o:p></o:p></FONT>
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align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman">70–80<o:p></o:p></FONT>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">There are
legitimate medical and educational reasons why "mental retardation" is
separated from epilepsy and cerebral palsy, not to mention psychological
self esteem issues. They are completely different in nature, diagnoses’,
cause, treatment, needed assistance, and intellectual capacity.
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The purpose of a
word is to communicate a specific message, not to be ambiguous and convey
negative and misleading information. I think this move is to simple
accommodate people that want to be politically correct and are too
intellectually lazy to learn about different people and the type of
challenges they face in life. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Your
Friend,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Donovan
Arnold<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 2/11/10, Su<SPAN>e Hov</SPAN>ey
<I><suehovey@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From:
Sue Hovey <suehovey@moscow.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020]
Outdated Language Targeted<BR>To: "Ron Force"
<rforce2003@yahoo.com>, "Moscow Vision 2020"
<vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 8:07
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<DIV><FONT color=#150e00 size=4 face=Calibri>interesting. Over the
past few years teachers have been getting some good information
regarding the education of children diagnosed with Asperger's, which we
do recognize is a mild form of autism, but the distinction has been
important educationally because the the teaching strategies are markedly
different for children with Asperger's than for those with
classic "autism." </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#150e00 size=4 face=Calibri>The term "retarded" is an
anachronism with no real educational value. The term is not
descriptive of specific disabilities, in fact the word means "to slow
down" leading to an inference that the person was once working at
a greater intellectual level than currently. It has been a
number of years since I've seen it used at all in education
circles. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#150e00 size=4 face=Calibri></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#150e00 size=4 face=Calibri>Sue H. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A
title="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rforce2003@yahoo.com"
rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">Ron
Force</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:01 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A
title="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vision2020@moscow.com"
rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow
Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Outdated Language
Targeted</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV
style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">You'll
have to change your vocabulary to communicate in the future:<BR><A
id=hn-news-link href="http://news.google.com/news?hl=en-US" rel=nofollow
target=_blank><BR></A>
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<DIV id=hn-headline>Changes proposed in how psychiatrists diagnose</DIV>
<P class=hn-byline>By LAURAN NEERGAARD (AP) – <SPAN class=hn-date>13
hours ago</SPAN></P></DIV>
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<DIV>WASHINGTON — Don't say "mental retardation" — the new term is
"intellectual disability." No more diagnoses of Asperger's syndrome —
call it a mild version of autism instead. And while "behavioral
addictions" will be new to doctors' dictionaries, "Internet addiction"
didn't make the cut.</DIV>
<DIV>The American Psychiatric Association is proposing major changes
Wednesday to its diagnostic bible, the manual that doctors, insurers and
scientists use in deciding what's officially a mental disorder and what
symptoms to treat. In a new twist, it is seeking feedback via the
Internet from both psychiatrists and the general public about whether
the changes will be helpful before finalizing them.</DIV>
<DIV>The manual suggests some new diagnoses. Gambling so far is the lone
identified behavioral addiction, but in the new category of learning
disabilities are problems with both reading and math. Also new is binge
eating, distinct from bulimia because the binge eaters don't
purge.</DIV>
<DIV>Sure to generate debate, the draft also proposes diagnosing people
as being at high risk of developing some serious mental disorders — such
as dementia or schizophrenia — based on early symptoms, even though
there's no way to know who will worsen into full-blown illness. It's a
category the psychiatrist group's own leaders say must be used with
caution, as scientists don't yet have treatments to lower that risk but
also don't want to miss people on the cusp of needing care.</DIV>
<DIV>Another change: The draft sets scales to estimate both adults and
teens most at risk of suicide, stressing that suicide occurs with
numerous mental illnesses, not just depression.</DIV>
<DIV>But overall the manual's biggest changes eliminate diagnoses that
it contends are essentially subtypes of broader illnesses — and urge
doctors to concentrate more on the severity of their patients' symptoms.
Thus the draft sets "autism spectrum disorders" as the diagnosis that
encompasses a full range of autistic brain conditions — from mild social
impairment to more severe autism's lack of eye contact, repetitive
behavior and poor communication — instead of differentiating between the
terms autism, Asperger's or "pervasive developmental disorder" as
doctors do today.</DIV>
<DIV>The psychiatric group expects that overarching change could
actually lower the numbers of people thought to suffer from mental
disorders.</DIV>
<DIV>"Is someone really a patient, or just meets some criteria like
trouble sleeping?" APA President Dr. Alan Schatzberg, a Stanford
University psychiatry professor, told The Associated Press. "It's really
important for us as a field to try not to overdiagnose."</DIV>
<DIV>Psychiatry has been accused of overdiagnosis in recent years as
prescriptions for antidepressants, stimulants and other medications have
soared. So the update of this manual called the DSM-5 — the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition — has been
anxiously awaited. It's the first update since 1994, and brain research
during that time period has soared. That work is key to give scientists
new insight into mental disorders with underlying causes that often are
a mystery and that cannot be diagnosed with, say, a blood test or
X-ray.</DIV>
<DIV>"The field is still trying to organize valid diagnostic categories.
It's honest to re-look at what the science says and doesn't say
periodically," said Ken Duckworth, medical director for the National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill, which was gearing up to evaluate the
draft.</DIV>
<DIV>The draft manual, posted at <A href="http://www.dsm5.org/"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.DSM5.org</A>, is up for public
debate through April, and it's expected to be lively. Among the autism
community especially, terminology is considered key to describing a set
of poorly understood conditions. People with Asperger's syndrome, for
instance, tend to function poorly socially but be high-achieving
academically and verbally, while verbal problems are often a feature of
other forms of autism.</DIV>
<DIV>"It's really important to recognize that diagnostic labels very
much can be a part of one's identity," said Geri Dawson of the advocacy
group Autism Speaks, which plans to take no stand on the autism
revisions. "People will have an emotional reaction to this."</DIV>
<DIV>Liane Holliday Willey, an author of books about Asperger's who also
has the condition, said in an e-mail that school autism services often
are geared to help lower-functioning children.</DIV>
<DIV>"I cannot fathom how anyone could even imagine they are one and the
same," she wrote. "If I had put my daughter who has a high IQ and solid
verbal skills in the autism program, her self-esteem, intelligence and
academic progress would have shut down."</DIV>
<DIV>Terminology also reflects cultural sensitivities. Most
patient-advocacy groups already have adopted the term "intellectual
disability" in place of "mental retardation." Just this month, the White
House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, drew criticism from former GOP vice
presidential nominee Sarah Palin and others for using the word
"retarded" to describe some activists whose tactics he questioned. He
later apologized.</DIV>
<DIV><EM>AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner in Chicago contributed to this
report.</EM></DIV>
<P id=hn-distributor-copyright><SPAN>Copyright © 2010 The Associated
Press. All rights reserved. </SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Donovan Arnold
<donovanjarnold2008@yahoo.com><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Moscow Vision 2020
<vision2020@moscow.com>; Tom Hansen
<thansen@moscow.com><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tue, February 9, 2010 2:31:16
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re:
[Vision2020] Outdated Language Targeted<BR></FONT><BR>
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<DIV>People use the term "retarded" in a derogatory manner. I
think that is wrong, and what this bill is about. However, "mental
retardation" is a medical term which means something specific to
people in the medical field. If you change that, it will
alter their level of needed care.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Using the term "people with intellectual disabilities"
doesn't tell me what I need to know to help that person. It
doesn't communicate anything meaningful from medical staff to
medical staff. Severe, moderate, or mild mental retardation tell
me a great deal. I can use that term universally with a doctor in
New Zeland, or a staff member in my own facility, and communicate
a great deal of information about the kind of care they need
instantly. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>This would be like eliminating grades K-5 and just using the
term primary school not to offend K-5 graders. It would be
confusing and frustrating to people in the education field. You
would not where to put what teachers where and what kind of books
or help the students needed, how to budget, or what lesson plans
were needed. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Trying to switch medical terms that are used
universally for identifying the needs of persons in Idaho
Statues could hurt the people they are trying to help by
confusing federal and state agencies as to where resources,
funding, and which kinds of medical staff need to
go where. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I think of instead of coming up with new words every ten
years that mean the same thing to not offend people, we should not
use words in a derogatory, improper, or negative manner. If
we want to make up new words, lets make up words to label the
people that make fun of people. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>And BTW, I don't think they should use African American to
define people that happen to have black skin, because not all
people with black skin are African Americans, as I had Jamaican
point out me, who was neither African, nor an American. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Your Friend,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Donovan Arnold</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 2/9/10, Tom Hansen
<I><thansen@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From:
Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><BR>Subject: [Vision2020]
Outdated Language Targeted<BR>To: "Moscow Vision 2020"
<vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Date: Tuesday, February 9,
2010, 5:27 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Courtesy of today's (February 9, 2010)
Spokesman-Review.<BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Outdated
language targeted<BR>Bill would cut ‘idiot,’ ‘retarded’ from
laws<BR>Betsy Z. Russell, The Spokesman-Review<BR><BR>BOISE –
After Idaho hosted the Special Olympics World Winter Games
last<BR>year, state Sen. Les Bock, D-Boise, said he was startled
when reading<BR>through Idaho statutes to see outmoded
terminology like “mentally<BR>retarded,” “mentally deficient”
and even “lunatic” and “idiot.”<BR><BR>Hosting athletes from
around the world with mental disabilities, Bock<BR>said, “I
think … made all of us a little more sensitive with respect
to<BR>some of the language we use.”<BR><BR>So the Boise attorney
began working with state officials to search through<BR>state
laws and found lots of that kind of wording. A half-dozen
meetings<BR>followed with state Health and Welfare officials,
the Idaho Council on<BR>Developmental Disabilities, the courts,
the state Department of Insurance<BR>and more.<BR><BR>In the
end, Bock came up with an 84-page bill to update the wording
in<BR>several sections of Idaho state law, from the probate code
(which referred<BR>to “a decedent, an infant, lunatic or
insolvent”) to the death penalty<BR>(which included a section
headed, “Imposition of death penalty upon<BR>mentally retarded
person prohibited”).<BR><BR>As the bill took shape, a section
about “Contracts of Idiots” became<BR>“Contracts of Persons
Without Understanding.” A clause about vocational<BR>education
programs that said “handicapped students” was switched
to<BR>“students with disabilities.”<BR><BR>When Bock presented
the bill Monday to the Idaho Senate Judiciary and<BR>Rules
Committee, state Sen. Shirley <SPAN>McKague</SPAN>, R-Meridian,
asked if it would<BR>penalize people who use the outdated terms.
Bock said no. “That’s not in<BR>the bill,” he said... “It’s not
about requiring people to speak in a certain<BR>way. It’s about
the language in the statute.”<BR><BR>Bock said the Special
Olympics, which drew international attention to<BR>Idaho and
brought hundreds of Idahoans out as volunteers to help with
the<BR>games, opened his eyes about language referring to people
with<BR>disabilities.<BR><BR>“We <SPAN>shouldn</SPAN>’t be
labeling them in a way that’s disrespectful,” he
said.<BR><BR>State Sen. Mike Jorgenson, R-Hayden Lake, noted
that the long bill also,<BR>in one instance, changes the term
“Afro-American” to “African-American.”<BR>Bock said that was
simply a matter of updating a term that’s no longer
in<BR>use.<BR><BR>The bill also, in several instances, changes
the word “handicapped” to<BR>“impaired,” and removes the term
“the mentally retarded” in favor of<BR>“people with intellectual
disabilities.” In all cases, Bock said, “the<BR>goal was
absolutely no change in the substance of the law.”<BR><BR>The
Senate committee voted unanimously to introduce the bill. To
become<BR>law, it still needs to survive full committee hearings
and votes in both<BR>houses, plus receive the governor’s
signature.<BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Seeya
round town, Moscow.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow,
Idaho<BR><BR>"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the
Optimist expects it to change<BR>and the Realist adjusts his
sails."<BR><BR>-
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