A popular restaurant in Buenos Aires is staffed almost entirely by workers with neurological challenges, tapping into often-overlooked talent and harnessing their skills.
Tag: Intellectual Disabilities
Despite Bans, Disabled Women Are Still Being Sterilized in Europe
Governments have declared the practice a human rights violation. But they have made exceptions that are divisive among parents, doctors and social workers.
Ukraine’s Children With Special Needs Suffer the ‘Huge Pressure’ of War
Children with conditions like ADHD and autism have been particularly affected by the traumas and uncertainties of the war and the disruptions to daily life, families and experts say.
Ukraine’s Children With Special Needs Suffer the ‘Huge Pressure’ of War
Children with conditions like ADHD and autism have been particularly affected by the traumas and uncertainties of the war and the disruptions to daily life, families and experts say.
Should Medicine Still Bother With Eponyms?
The names of Nazi-era doctors are still found on diseases and body parts. By expunging them, will doctors forget lessons of the past?
Your Thursday Briefing: Russia Cuts Gas Supplies
Also, Shanghai residents express anger and Singapore executes an intellectually disabled man.
Singapore Executes Drug Smuggler Despite Concerns Over Mental Disability
Defense lawyers had argued that the Malaysian man should not be executed because he was not fully capable of understanding his actions and had been coerced.
Rights Groups Urge Singapore Not to Execute Man With Mental Disability
The man, a Malaysian with an I.Q. of 69, was caught trying to smuggle an ounce and a half of heroin in 2009. Some are calling his planned hanging a human rights violation.
U.K. Appeals Court Overturns Order for Mentally Disabled Woman to Have Abortion
Days after a British judge ruled it was in the best interests of a developmentally disabled woman to have an abortion, the Court of Appeal decided in favor of the woman’s mother, who opposes an abortion.
U.K. Court Says Mentally Disabled Woman Must Have Abortion
A judge called her decision “heartbreaking,” but in the best interest of the woman, who is 22 weeks pregnant.