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Louisiana teachers' union concerned about educators' future; Supreme Court hears arguments in Trump immunity case; court issues restraining order against fracking waste-storage facility; landmark NE agreement takes a proactive approach to CO2 pipeline risks.

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Speaker Johnson accuses demonstrating students of getting support from Hamas. TikTok says it'll challenge the ban. And the Supreme Court dives into the gray area between abortion and pregnancy healthcare, and into former President Trump's broad immunity claims.

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The urban-rural death divide is widening for working-age Americans, many home internet connections established for rural students during COVID have been broken, and a new federal rule aims to put the "public" back in public lands.

It's Developmental Disability Education & Awareness Month in NC

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012   

RALEIGH, N.C. - President Ronald Reagan officially declared March as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in 1987. This year, the North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities (NCCDD) is leading the statewide campaign for greater public awareness of developmental disabilities, defined as a disability from birth.

About 175,000 people in North Carolina live with developmental disabilities. Holly Riddle, who heads the NCCDD, explains that these types of disabilities affect a person's entire lifetime in a variety of ways.

"Lifelong disabilities cross all aspects of your work, all aspects of your life. It affects where you live, it affects who you hang out with, it affects your love life."

In addition to providing support to people with developmental disabilities, the NCCDD also helps educate leaders who work in the field, making sure they have the best training to do their jobs.

Disability-rights advocate Becky Harker says it's also important to remember how to treat children born with developmental disabilities.

"I think socially, if we could treat all children as children first, we'd help them develop into the adults that they need to be, to be productive and integrated."

Harker says this includes helping people with developmental disabilities realize full access to housing and employment, and to live as independently as possible.


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