tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post1142195352689699093..comments2024-03-19T07:36:33.915-04:00Comments on Of Battered Aspect: The Promposal and World Down Syndrome DayDave Hingsburgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11918601687946534172noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-23592241724631934212017-03-21T14:37:01.037-04:002017-03-21T14:37:01.037-04:00Love the www.NotSpecialNeeds.com website and video...Love the www.NotSpecialNeeds.com website and video! (Yes the video has human-edited captions, but people who need the captions may need to click on the video to go to its YouTube page in order to turn them on.) I discovered that there is also a hashtag, #NotSpecialNeeds, and a closely related hashtag #SayTheWord, which encourages people to just say the word "disability", or the term for the specific disability (such as, Down Syndrome, or blind, etc.).<br /><br />Thank you, Jenni, for these links!Andrea Shettle, MSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16984732076766787818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-27123203482940272452017-03-21T11:52:07.314-04:002017-03-21T11:52:07.314-04:00This came up in my facebook feed today. Its about ...This came up in my facebook feed today. Its about the term 'special needs' as its used to refer to people with (in this instance) Down Syndrome. What do you think?<br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/Upworthy/videos/1707351759305675/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED<br /><br />(They also have a website, apparently here: http://www.notspecialneeds.com/ )Jennihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664877102519401075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35743239.post-42864880465931351532017-03-21T10:19:14.969-04:002017-03-21T10:19:14.969-04:00You get better results if you go to news.google.co...You get better results if you go to <a href="http://news.google.com" rel="nofollow">news.google.com</a> and try googling Down Syndrome (without the keyword "news" because you're already in the section of google that only looks at news sources), World Down Syndrome Day is the second result listed. Or, if you search for "Down Syndrome" at <a href="news.bing.com" rel="nofollow">news.bing.com</a> then you get similar results--the second <i>and</i> third results are about World Down Syndrome Day.<br /><br />But, yes, even here at news.google.ecom, the thing about the guy asking his best friend's sister with Down Syndrome to the prom (I assume this is the same one you saw?) is the third result on the first page. And at news.bing.com, the results are similar--both the fourth and fifth results on the first page are about that teen with Down Syndrome who gets invited to the prom in either the "sweetest" or the "cheesiest" way possible (depending which source you look at).<br /><br />And even if it weren't so, you should still be getting better results when searching for "Down Syndrome News" at regular www.google.com (I got same as you, where the prom thing was in the lead and Down Syndrome Day nowhere in the first page). And regular www.bing.com is somewhat better in that the prom thing does not turn up in the first page, but neither does World Down Syndrome Day.Andrea Shettle, MSWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16984732076766787818noreply@blogger.com