I honestly never thought of myself as having a severe disability. I am able to go just about anywhere I want to go with my wheelchair. I am able to say anything I want to say with my DynaVox Vmax. I have people who help me with things like eating and getting dressed. I am [...]
Two days after I graduated college, I had the chance to go back to my high school to give two presentations. It was opening day for the entire faculty in the school district, and they not only asked me to be the keynote speaker, but they also wanted me to do a breakout session to [...]
I want to talk about a situation that recently happened to me. After getting over being upset about this situation, it actually reinforced that I would like a career in raising awareness of the fact that people with disabilities are more like average people than many realize and that individuals with disabilities have feelings.
My friend [...]
On August 17th, 2010, I did it. After five years of happy, interesting, hard, sad, totally unique, lonely, easy, frustrating, fun, exciting, scary, absolutely insane moments, I finally did what 95% of people didn’t think I could do. I graduated college!
I am going to be completely honest. There was a time when I really considered [...]
This month I decided to write post for teachers. Throughout my educational career, I have had some amazing teachers and I have had some not so amazing teachers. Someone recently asked me if I could tell teachers anything what it would be. So, I put together some basic guidelines that I think every teacher should [...]
To finish my degree, I am doing my internship with DynaVox Mayer-Johnson. I started during the spring quarter and will be done during the summer quarter. I’m the Communications and Awareness intern and I love it. Ultimately, I would like to talk to /work with people who have never been around people with disabilities before. [...]
I believe society learns a lot from the media. When they go to the movies or read books. Therefore, I think they need to have more people with disabilities in the movies, on TV and in books. This would help society be much more accepting. Now, I am not talking about movies like Radio, where [...]
As I look at the past, I am thinking about the future. Currently I am an intern at DynaVox Mayer-Johnson. Like many things that I’ve done in the past, as part of my internship I am doing a lot of awareness with the able-bodied community to help them understand that they should not be scared [...]
As an AAC user, I often find people don’t know how to treat me or how to talk to someone with a device. It often leaves them feeling uncomfortable and me feeling frustrated. I have put together some guidelines to help people communicate effectively with augmented communicators. Hopefully these guidelines will help them feel more [...]
I would like to share with you the chapter in my life that is going to be ending shortly. In just a few months, I am going to graduate college. I really can’t believe it. I’m happy to be done, but then again I’m sad it’s going to be over, and I’m nervous about my [...]
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