What if you could support people with disabilities in ways you’re not aware of?
“More the Same than Different: Disability Reality and a Guide for Change” is a handbook for anyone who may not have much experience interacting with people with disabilities and wants to feel more comfortable. Filled with skills and strategies to implement, along with engaging stories, this book includes various, often humorous scenarios, while taking on serious topics. It explains, from Lorraine’s perspective, what people did right and what could have happened differently.
Learn how to:
· Help create an inclusive environment
· Use a three-step process to assist people with disabilities without risking offending them
· Effectively support someone who is dealing with a mental illness
· Understand the value of service dogs in the lives of people with disabilities
· Recognize the difference between inspiration and inspiration porn
· Differentiate between person-first and identity-first language
· Be an ally and effective advocate for people with disabilities
Lorraine Cannistra is a passionate disability advocate, speaker, a frequent contributor to the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series, and Ms. Wheelchair Kansas 2007. She has been affected by cerebral palsy since birth. Additionally, she received a diagnosis of a mental illness in her early 20s. She also has a master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and a brother with a spinal cord injury. Living with her disabilities, she frequently encounters people who want to help but simply don’t know what to do, This book is Lorraine’s answer to that dilemma.
Take your first step toward a more equal society and buy this book now!
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