Carrie Dattels (she/her)

Can anyone hear me? #accessibility

[Haben Girma👩🏿‍🦯 @HabenGirma]

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 https://t.co/uMEJMPvXUx

[Kelli Suding, M.Ed., CPACC @ksuding]

This! 🎉
Google Drive video uploads now have auto-generated captions 👏🏻 https://t.co/t63c4TTlP3

@CAST_UDL #UDL #UDLcon #UDLcon2024 #AEM4all #AccessibilityMatters

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

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

[Carrie Dattels (she/her) @carriedat]

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.

[Christina Mills (She/Her) @Momvocatemills]

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.

[Carrie Dattels (she/her) @carriedat]

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

[Ottawa Advocate @OttawaObjects]

Get hooked up in Ottawa County. Defeat the Ottawa Impact way of (not) thinking. Learn what’s really going on.
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[Katie Novak @KatieNovakUDL]

If you are looking for tools to help guide UDL Implementation, check out our free library of downloads - at your fingertips whenever you need them.

There are tools for both teachers and leaders. Check it out here: https://t.co/xqQTCsNSxY

[Carrie Dattels (she/her) @carriedat]

Instead of firing her, OI plans to give Hambley millions to resign https://t.co/vvWFIPN60j

[Commissioner Zylstra @OCCommZylstra]

“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.”
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[Commissioner Zylstra @OCCommZylstra]

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

[Emyle Watkins ♿️ @EmyleWatkins]

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.

[Carrie Dattels (she/her) @carriedat]

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.” https://t.co/j3pNwDC2LG

[Michigan Politics @MLivePolitics]

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. https://t.co/57v4O1mDMS

[Carrie Dattels (she/her) @carriedat]

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.

[Commissioner Zylstra @OCCommZylstra]

At today’s Budget Work session, Finance Chair Cosby proposed a 5% across the board reduction to our Fiscal Year 2024 Budget.

Following a year of increased costs for many aspects of county government, an across the board reduction of this magnitude would create severe deficiencies in the County’s ability to provide the services that residents have come to expect from their local government.

Whether expressed through reduced deputies on the road, less prosecutors and less public defenders in our courtrooms, less food inspectors, less mental health professionals, or less of the myriad other services Ottawa County offers, this proposal would have far reaching negative effects throughout the County.

Ottawa County is a vibrant, growing County, and part of what makes it such a great place to live is the dedicated County employees that work to help promote that growth through the services they offer. Cutting our budget in this manner, and at this time would be both irresponsible and counterproductive to that vibrant growth. https://t.co/Q8NnNNpzCq

[Carrie Dattels (she/her) @carriedat]

@vanwylenlibrary @FriedIntlCenter @HopeOrientation Is this available digitally?

[Hope College @HopeCollege]

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.

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[Great Lakes ADA Ctr @adagreatlakes]

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: https://t.co/3w85xn4w7p
#ADA33 #DisabilityPrideMonth #DisabilityPride

[Carrie Dattels (she/her) @carriedat]

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

[Carrie Dattels (she/her) @carriedat]

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