Facts do not
cease to exist
because they
are ignored
Aldous Huxley
From: xxxxxx@nacdd.simplelists.com [mailto:xxxxxx@nacdd.simplelists.com]
On Behalf Of Tewell - CDHS, Marcia
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 2:01 PM
To: xxxxxx@nacdd.simplelists.com
Subject: Re: DD Councils NYT Op Ed
There were some great comments to counter the dinosaur-like views in the article, but even the comments were not all supportive of community living. They did, however, provide a bit of optimism after reading the article. Amazing
this deficit thinking still occurs without an equal amount of thinking of alternatives, fully knowing that the ' isolation solution' which was an utter failure.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Lawyer, Heidi (VBPD) <xxxxxx@vbpd.virginia.gov> wrote:
In case you haven’t seen this awful op ed
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/opinion/the-modern-asylum.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
Heidi Lawyer
Executive Director
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