News and notes from AMD, DHM/UMCD, DMC - 16 December 2022

Happy Beethoven's Birthday! Here are the highlights of postings this week from the Association of Ministers with Disabilities, Disability Ministries Committee, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Ministries Committee, and UM Congress of the Deaf. Please note that many posts have additional comments and discussion which will not be reflected in these links.

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DHM/UMCD

• Gallaudet University survey for CODA
• Kabue UMC, Zambia: Our new  Deaf service
• ECD: Advent series, compassion
• Leo Yates, BWC: ASL signs for church at Advent and Christmas
• EJP: Rabbinical school for Deaf students
• Deaf Link: aging concerns meeting
• Ebenezer UMC, Suffolk VA: December 12 interpreted Christmas concert
• Tanzania AC: Yatosha Deaf school construction
  

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DMC

• Being Present: The sin of the $3000 co-pay
• Smithsonian: Stiff Person Syndrome
  
• Reframing Autism: Venn diagram, social and medical model
  
• NIH: Rethinking disability, the social model
  
• Medium: The social model of disability
• CRC Justice: Mary, Martha, and the Myth of productivity
• Forbes: A Psychologist Explains Why Depression Is One Of The Most Misunderstood Mental Illnesses
• GBCS: Mental Health
• Vatican News: Pope: inclusion of disabled must not remain a slogan
  

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Events

• January 15: ITD  Workshop and Discussion Proposals due
• February 2023: The Church’s Ministry with Dementia, Pre-register now
  
• June 26-29, 2023: Institute on Theology & Disability, Waco TX
• August 6-11, 2023: UMCD/ELM Red Bird Mission

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