News and notes from AMD, 13 December 2019

Here are the highlights of postings this week from the Association of Ministers with Disabilities, Disability Ministries Committee, Mental Health Ministries, Deaf and Hard-of-hearing Ministries Committee, and UM Congress of the Deaf:

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AMD

• Faith & Leadership: sustaining programs
  
• Rebecca Holland tips off an architect about us!
• Random Acts of Expression: Inclusive language for Advent
• Microsoft: Locked into poverty
• Random Acts of Expression: Smack down not
• Random Acts of Expression: Thomas Merton
• Disability History Assn: Claiming the skies
• ADN: Trauma-informed care
  

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DHM/UMCD

• Website: 11 things hearing people need to know
  
• Lovers Lane: 2nd Sunday of Advent
• Campus Technology: Captioning at Harvard
• Sri Lanka UM: International day of people with disabilities
• Hearing Health: Hearing loss and autism
• Business Wire: Comcast ASL program
• K. Bouton: Noise and public health
• Brownwood Bulletin: UMC and school make ASL presentation
• Hollywood: Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in three movements
  

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DMC

• Friendship with autistic people is not a headline
• ADN: The Prince of Peace
• Books for Littles: disability books
• Think Inclusive: disability books
• ADN: Trauma and disability
• Disabled Christianity: The friends of musicians' ministry
• Meriah Nichols: Kids, disability and media
• WISH TV: Dementia-friendly dining
  

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MHM

• NAMI: Managing the Holiday blues
  

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