May 16, 2016 | Friends, Getting to know people, Laughter, What some people don't think about |
All of my adult life I have tried to embrace diversity, and encouraged others to do the same. The logic goes like this. If one of my purposes in life is to break down barriers between people with disabilities and those without disabilities, then accepting differences...
Jan 29, 2015 | Attitudes, can do, communicating respect, disability etiquette, kids with disabilities, negative perceptions, Society |
I have heard of great expectations before, but when I listened to an interview on NPR recently, it gave the whole concept a new twist for me. Bob Rosenthal is a research psychologist. Early in his career, he went into his lab and put signs on his rat cages. Some of...
Oct 24, 2014 | can do, dance, dreams, negative perceptions, wheelchair dancing |
Martin Luther King Day is still a few months away, but if you will indulge me for a minute I would like to tell you about a dream I have. I want to perform my favorite dance routine on the Ellen Degeneres show. In late in November of 2006, I got a letter in the mail...
May 7, 2014 | Attitudes, Beginnings, choices, communicating respect, Disabilitiy, Education, Health, Lessons, negative perceptions |
The most frustrating part was that he didn’t ask me. While the sun was melting away the icy traces of winter, and daring the world to adjust to the coming of spring, the adjustments that I was making had nothing to do with the weather. It was late February 1987 and I...
