January 7, 2012
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Education Is Fun

Before I get mobbed for saying education is fun, let me explain. First, let me ask you, what classes do you remember from elementary school through college? Was it the straight laced teacher that taught straight from the book, the teacher who had been there ...

December 12, 2011
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Flote Hands Free

So many products designed for people with disabilities ultimately help people with out disabilities. Take for instance the curb cut. Now you can push your baby down the street and across the intersection without waking them each time you had to jump the curb. What's ...

November 26, 2011
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Wheelchairs Aide Mobility Through Recycling

Chances are you know someone who has had a broken leg. Mobility becomes an issue quickly. Wheelchairs are not just for those with lifelong disabilities but also temporary disabilities. At the high cost of these items, one would be hard ...

November 23, 2011
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Sharing Thanksgiving Wishes

Rolling up to the parallel bars, I pulled myself up putting the bars underneath my arms. With leg braces locked in place, I moved my right foot forward. It took a lot of energy to move my right foot. I then moved my left ...

November 20, 2011
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Point Of View: Need

The point of view you take on your own needs is pretty easy to comprehend because you go through them every day. Getting up, getting dressed, going to work, and so on. Need is easy to see from your own point of view. What is harder to see is the need from someone else's point ...

November 9, 2011
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Seeing Ones’ Ability

"You're lucky, you've always been disabled. I used to have a life. I used to play basketball. I used to have a regular job. Now all I have is this lousy wheelchair." Yes, I've been disabled since birth. But what is missing here is individual potential, no matter the life differences. I recently met John (not ...

October 30, 2011
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Lowering Turnover Rates

As Disability Employment Awareness Month comes to a close I wanted to add in a few things to consider if you as a business owner or human resources representative might consider. All businesses hate turnover because it involves spending more money to search, recruit, hire, ...

October 16, 2011
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Back To The Days Of The One Room Schoolhouse

Learning disabilities make understanding subjects harder, but not impossible. It takes a skilled person to understand the differences in the different learning disabilities and learning styles of students. It takes an even more skilled person to be able to teach to this body of students. Or does it? How skilled was the teacher in the one ...

October 8, 2011
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Customer Service Starts Over With Each Customer

Improving Customer Service for improved sales and a better reputation in your community.

October 2, 2011
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How To Support A Family Member With A Disability

Let's admit it right away, having a family member with a disability is shocking. There, it's been said. Now we can recognize them for who they already are: a family member. Nothing has a stronger bond than family, or at least it shouldn't. As much as the brother, sister, mother, or father has a disability, it ...

September 26, 2011
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Eating Out Without Hassle

  Love this article by the Wall Street Journal about the top restaurants in New York. They are about to go through the ADA test. How much do they value the customer. If I was a restaurant owner, or ...

September 24, 2011
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44 Reasons

Age is just a number, a label to identify if you can get into a PG rated movie or get the senior citizen's discount. But it's not a reason to get depressed. It's a reason to know more, be wiser, and hopefully not to repeat the past. We live for labels for one thing or another, ...

September 17, 2011
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Faces Of Abilities

You see it is easy to focus on what one can't do. It's harder to find out what you are really capable of. Starting October 1st and running a full week, Celebrating Abilities is sponsoring the "Faces Of Abilities". These will be portraits of people and their abilities. Portraits will be hung in shop ...

August 20, 2011
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Learning Laws Of Gravity

The sound of a herd of elephants to someone going down two flights of stairs; these are comparisons that are made when I go down a single flight of stairs. Going down stairs is a lot faster for me than going up stairs so it sounds like a herd of elephants or something like that. Each foot hits each ...