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No Pity: A Community for People with Disabilities
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| volunteers needed for new research |
[May. 11th, 2012|12:57 am] |
Hello everybody
I've been lurking on this comm for a while. Now I've been asked to post the recruitment ad below. The researcher is a personal friend of mine so I know that she's genuine. If you'd like to contact her, please use the contact details she gives below. She says this:
My name is Jessica Worner, and I am looking for volunteers to take part in a research project that I am doing as part of a Social Psychology MSc degree at the University of Surrey.
The research aims to look at the experiences of people who would describe themselves as disabled with a physical impairment or as having a physical disability, and who also identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or otherwise do not identify as heterosexual.
To help me do this, I am looking for volunteers to take part in informal and confidential interviews that will last up to 90 minutes.
It is hoped that by doing this research, a better understanding may be gained of some of the experiences and issues faced by LGB people with physical disabilities.
To take part in interviews, you must be over 18 years of age and currently live in the UK.
If you are interested in taking part, or would like any more information about the research, please feel free to contact me via email at jw00073@surrey.ac.uk or by calling 07783 267006. |
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| On assigment |
[Apr. 6th, 2012|08:43 pm] |
Hi folks. Spastic_dowager is a freelance journalist, and fairly good at being one with the right keynotes. I am on the hunt for sources, primarily a deaf rehab counselor or asl instructor who may work with seniors and the middle aged, and two, a person with hearing loss from that group who may not be readily adaptable to deaf culture.
The asl contact is more important than the second source, thanks. If my credits make you feel comfortable, I have bylines in New Mobility, Philadelphia Inquirer, so forth, and by all means, use my yahoo addy, or comment section, what have you.
Jozanny@yahoo.com |
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| (no subject) |
[Apr. 2nd, 2012|06:19 pm] |
I think I am having a mental breakdown.
I have a disability.
It's something I've been taught
to accept and overcome for my
entire life.
I have overcome it to the point that in college,
my parents thought that they should go ahead
and throw away all of my documentation.
Now, I have had to drop out of my externship
for something related to disability (they said I had no social skills),
and a counselor has convinced me to go to Department of Rehabilitative Services.
My parents are 150% against this plan, and they are refusing
to go with me and explain a disability that I have never
learned about because it has never received a label.
They tell me that if I go to DRS, then I will be giving into my
disability and receiving a label, which will haunt me for the rest of my life.
The hardest part is that I am 25, and I work for an agency that promotes
the rights for people who have disabilities.
I am graduating in May with my Masters in Education (would have also
gotten my license for teaching if I had the proper accomodations and did
not have to leave my externship).
I want to teach early childhood special education,
and I am living every day as a hypocrite because I
walk into work where they accept my disability, but then
I come home, and I have to pretend that the "D word" (as my parents call it)
does not exist. |
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| Organizing |
[Mar. 26th, 2012|07:33 am] |
Hi! I've posted here a couple of times about my own health issues (mostly neurological) and now I've got a bit of a broader issue.
I help organize with the Occupy movement in a couple of East Coast cities in the US. For the most part this has been pretty awesome, even if the police aren't always quite as awesome about my moving slowly as my fellow Occupiers. However, something came up at a coalition meeting ( and I can see this getting long. )But I'm also co-organizing an alternative training to that one because PWDs weren't the only disenfranchised, marginalized group in that training. But if I'm bottomlining that, I figured I would ask the community what they've experienced/would like to see in a training for direct action facilitation (ie training for people who organize protests) in regard to people with disabilities. What would, personally or communally or socially or whathaveyou, make it better or more accessible?
(And obviously, I won't be yelling at anyone to stand up from the ground in order to speak when they say they can't.) |
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| (no subject) |
[Mar. 13th, 2012|05:30 pm] |
I am so tired of this.
I work in the disability field.
I am student teaching and completing
my last externship towards
my graduate degree in
Early Childhood Special Education.
Yet, it is all just a giant disagreement
in my head because I am learning that
my disability (which is currently a neurological impairment)
affects my life in so many ways, and yet
my parents are restricting me from getting
an actual diagnosis, even though
it will most likely cause me to fail my
final externship.
I have done well in all of my academic classes,
and now, everything I do is wrong.
I am at a loss for what to do, but
in the pit of my stomach, I honestly think
that this disability is affecting my life
in more ways than I ever estimated. |
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| (no subject) |
[Feb. 24th, 2012|09:20 pm] |
So I'm not sure if this is fully community-appropriate, but I figured you folks would know and I could take it down if it's not.
I'm 25 and in the US. I just got a decent job after being unemployed, but the caveat is No Benefits. This means, of course, that in six months, I'll be AWOL on docs and scripts and be basically unable to work. (I have two kinds of dystonia, RSD, and migraines.) Clearly, it's a Situation.
It's been suggested that since Vocational Rehab is taking forever in my area (two visits, since I got in the system in June), I might see a social worker about what my options are, possibly through the same hospital system my main specialists are through. A-okay. But how does one go about doing that?
(Other alternatives are also welcome.) |
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| New Google Group |
[Feb. 13th, 2012|06:57 pm] |
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I've created a google group for those interested. It is a group designed to give and receive emotional or other support for people who are wearing AFO or other types of orthotics. The name of the group is Orthotics Support. The membership is open so anyone with an interest in the topic is welcome to subscribe. |
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| Playing streaming audio on the iPod Touch |
[Jan. 6th, 2012|11:49 pm] |
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How do I save MP3 files from online live streaming radio stations to my iPod Touch so that I can easily access them but also so that they will not play/be stored along with my MUSIC files? Where would I save the live streaming MP3 files to make this happen? |
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| Lightweight Vacuum Cleaner? |
[Jan. 6th, 2012|02:26 pm] |
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Hi, all. I'm looking for a lightweight vacuum cleaner so I can help my husband keep our house clean. (As it is right now, he does over 90% of the housework, and I'd like to be able to help more.) My main impediment to using our normal vacuum cleaner is that it's a 16 pound Dyson beast that is way too heavy for my hands and arms. I have rheumatoid arthritis which has seriously affected my finger mobility and ability to bear weight with my hands, so I'm looking for a vacuum that I'd be able to use without hurting myself that would work better than the Swiffer vacuum I currently use. (The Swiffer vacuum seems to have difficulty with cat litter, which is one of the main things that need to be vacuumed up in our 5-cat household.) The weight of the vacuum cleaner would need to be 5 pounds or less.
Any suggestions? I'm currently considering a Dyson DC35 Digital Slim. As for price, my 30th birthday is coming up in a few months, so as long as it's not over $350, I'm hoping my in-laws might buy it for my birthday present.
[ETA: I'm going to go with the Oreck XL Little Hero, which looks fantastic and weighs only 7 pounds!] |
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| Mobile Sites/Apps for TV Listings |
[Jan. 2nd, 2012|11:12 pm] |
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Are there any mobile web sites that have minimal if no graphics and that are accessible with either MobileSpeak or VoiceOver that give you TV listings? Also, are there any apps accessible via MobileSpeak or VoiceOver that do the same thing? If so, what are they? |
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