Jul 26, 2015 | Uncategorized |
I felt like I had been kicked in the gut. As the air escaped from my lungs, my mind was reeling from what I had just heard. Since I was considering a particular degree program for graduate school, I was a little unsure of myself, trying to navigate my way into a...
Jun 15, 2014 | Attitudes, choices, communicating respect, Disabilitiy, Friends, inclusion, Lessons, Society |
It shouldn’t have happened. Not in 2013. Not twenty-three years after the Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect. But it did. And the people who witnessed the incident decided to protest. According to an article from CNN, in mid-November 2013, Albert Rizzi...
Oct 7, 2013 | Ableism, Accommodations, ADA, Attitudes, Disabilitiy, Health, Making people comfortable, What some people don't think about, Wheelchair |
It is time to own up to it. I have a one track mind. No, it is not in the gutter. And I don’t see issues in the world as black or white, good or bad, right or wrong. I see the world as accessible or inaccessible. Maybe it’s from having a lifelong disability and...