As the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) prepares to begin its ninth session April 15 – 19, 2013, are they missing the role that higher education …
Desperation Porn: The Impact of Graphic Medical Images on the Disability Community
As an adult with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), I love the opportunity that social networking affords me to connect with my community. I consider it a gift to welcome a new …
Assumptions Are Demeaning
A few weeks ago, I accompanied Mom to Kroger’s grocery store to do a little shopping. We get to the checkout counter and as the cashier is ringing us up, …
Simple remodeling
By doing a few simple home up-grades on overlooked items it will lessen the burden later. To live safer and healthier use natural bio-based renewable materials to remodel your home. …
Reflection of a Woman
Growing up with O.I. made me realize that I was different from everyone else around me but at the same time I didn’t care of how others perceived me as. …
What Is The “Least Restrictive environment” for Physically Disabled Students?
A physically disabled child is never on equal terms with his or her able-bodied peers. The other children are always able to do things that the physically disabled child cannot …
Raising Pride By Lowering a Table
A few years ago I decided that I wanted an ultrasound of my upper body organs. Several of my friends had been told they had gall stones, did I? My …
Disabled Does Not Mean Discouraged
After dealing with vision problems, slurred speech, inability to write with a pen, all the usual Multiple Sclerosis nervous system attacks, one malfunction really got to me: I could not …
That Old Cliché
Everybody knows the old cliché that says – the more things change, the more they stay the same. When I was young I always thought how it didn’t make any …