Help people with disabilities

My friend has been asking me to adapt a train set for 4 years now. Its 30 minutes of work, so I’m going to do it in the next week. 4 years ago

I’m having such a wonderful time learning from Jim Skouge and Kavita Rao how to use Mac’s and my windows system if need be, to create wonderful accessible personalized stories. This rates as subtle genius in by book. The pdf doesn’t do the actual creations justice. You really need to look at the stories that the students are creating. http://www.prtec.hawaii.edu/4_CURRICULUM/PVbook.pdf 4 years ago

Here is the link to the story about her life and book. http://starbulletin.com/2007/10/14/features/story01.html This is a story everyone should know. 4 years ago

Heard my teacher do an amazing reading of the newly released book “The Watercolor Cat” by Peggy Chun and Shelly Mecum. Its about painting and ALS and friendship, as told by a cat named Boo( an alias). 4 years ago

Just found these great tshirts about diversity. http://www.thenthdegree.com/advocacy.asp
Nice to just read the sayings. 4 years ago

Just subscribed to the Not Dead Yet blog. This is an interesting organization for someone like me, who tries to get people technology to improve their lives.

I really like their “The Value of Life with a Disability” doc. http://www.notdeadyet.org/docs/value.html
Seems like many of the people here share those values. 4 years ago

Heard this story on NPR the other day. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15276485
The doctor in the story estimates that 80% of the bombers have disabilities. So little value we place on human life. 4 years ago

A Beautiful Mind
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7037314.stm

Interesting article from a photographer about the link between creativity and schizophrenia. 4 years ago

Just read an article about some of the new assistive devices for the elderly in Japan. One of the marketing campaigns is for a car that has features to help the elderly get into it. The slogan was “its a car thats more patient than your daughter”. Hmmm. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299677,00.html 4 years ago

So one thing is to make sure that the language used is appropriate. So instead of refering to people with a disability as “the disabled”, its better to use the word “people” first. It seems a little bit like political correctness, but it changes the picture a bit.

Its always a challenge for me to work with people with developmental disabilites. I’m not at all proud of this but its hard. I hope to get over it already! 4 years ago

Everyone that knows me knows that love/hate relationship I have with developing technology for people with disabilities. Its the most self defeating work in the world. Only the few and the lucky get the technology they need. It bothers me so much. 4 years ago

Contact your state’s social services department. 5 years ago