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