User:Buster7/Sandbox-Rosa's law

start/12-7-2010

intellectual disability rather than mental retardation

• Note--make reference to Rosas Law at ID page
• Ron GeorgeHB20..
• A bill to change references in Federal law to mental retardation to references to an intellectual disability, and to change references to a mentally retarded individual to references to an individual with an intellectual disability.
• http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-2781

Inspiration

• "The inspiration for the law came from the actions of a family in Edgewater, Maryland. Last year, a mother of four named Nina Marcellino found out her youngest daughter, Rosa, a child with Down syndrome, had been labeled retarded at school. Nina didn?t allow the R-word in her house, and none of her children described their sister that way. Nina teamed up with other parents and her state delegate to introduce a bill to change the terminology in Maryland state law. Before the bill was brought up for consideration in the Maryland General Assembly, they held a hearing on the implications of changing the term.
• http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-2781

References

• http://www.specialolympics.org/rosas-law.aspx#
• http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/sponsors/george.htm (HB20)
• http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:5:./temp/~c111R5cSlj:: (Library of Congress)
• http://aucd.net/docs/Rosa's%20Law%20-%20Dear%20Colleague%20(2).pdf [Letter to fellow senators from Senators Mikulski and Enzi]