User:JesseW/Mayer Shevin

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Mayer Shevin was an advocate for people with disabilities, particularly in the area of facilitated communication. He is best known for his poem, The Language of Us and Them, which illustrates the use of clinical language to de-humanize disabled people.

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His website (via archive.org)
His published works
Obituary
Photo of him protesting the Iraq War in 2003
Bio from Autreat 1998
Bio from Syracuse University
Bio from NARPA