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News round-up: disability on TV continues to make headlines, US court case over disabled teen given electric shock 'treatment'

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Vaughan | 09:00 UK time, Friday, 13 April 2012

As with last week's news round-up, the past seven days have seen disability on TV making the news, whether it's the wide variety of comment, criticism and controversy concerning Ricky Gervais's comedy-drama Derek (read more about it in this Ouch! blog post), continuing coverage of Channel 4's reality show The Undateables, a forthcoming disability comedy show which has dropped a sketch after police intervention, or a Â鶹Éç Two drama which will tell the story of how the Paralympics began.

In more troubling news, a trial in the US has been shown footage, withheld since 2002, of a at a school in Massachusetts, and a for 'picking quarrels and provoking trouble' with the nation's government.

More of the week's headlines

C4 drop I'm Spazticus sketch after police called (Â鶹Éç News, Thursday 12 April)

(The Telegraph, Thursday 12 April)

(The Telegraph, Thursday 12 April)

(The Telegraph, Thursday 12 April)

Paralympic history set for drama (Â鶹Éç News, Thursday 12 April)

Dating and disability: Readers' stories (Â鶹Éç News Magazine, Thursday 12 April)

Web trolls: Mum's horror over abuse of Down's Syndrome daughter (Â鶹Éç News, Thursday 12 April)

(Â鶹Éç News, Thursday 12 April)

Adrenaline junkie conquers world's most extreme challenges...despite being paralysed from the neck down (Daily Mail, Thursday 12 April)

(The Guardian, Wednesday 11 April)

(The Telegraph, Wednesday 11 April)

(The Guardian, Tuesday 10 April)

(The Telegraph, Tuesday 10 April)

(The Guardian, Tuesday 10 April)

(The Guardian, Tuesday 10 April)

Postcards from another person's reality (Â鶹Éç News, Tuesday 10 April)

(The Guardian, Monday 9 April)

(Daily Mail, Monday 9 April)

Ricky Gervais defends comedy show Derek (Â鶹Éç News, Monday 9 April)

Obesity and diabetes link to child disorders (Â鶹Éç News, Monday 9 April)

(The Telegraph, Sunday 8 April)

(The Observer, Sunday 8 April)

(The Independent, Saturday 7 April)

(Daily Mail, Saturday 7 April)

(The Independent, Friday 6 April)

(The Guardian, Friday 6 April)

(The Guardian, Friday 6 April)

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