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a native Minnesotan and, more importantly, the Funding Services Coordinator
for the Iowa Program for Assistive Technology, I always read Access
Press with great interest and enjoyment.
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Adapting To Change by Donn Poll & Derek
VanderVeen Until
a summer Friday in 1987 Torrey Westrom had a running start on a typical
rural Minnesota life. He was a 14-year-old jock growing up on a farm
near Elbow Lake in south central Minnesota. He figured on playing sports.
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ACTing Up by Bret Hesla My
child is just a regular child. Not an "angel", not "special.”
Not a "medical condition" nor a "poor
thing." Not a problem to be fixed, not a "monster."
As a parent, you know your children are just a people, like everybody
else. The problem, unfortunately, is that society won't always treat
children that way.
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Settlement Announcement Beginning
in November 2001, deaf people began experiencing problems securing qualified
sign language interpreters for court proceedings in the Minnesota State
Court system. Eight deaf people reported to the Minnesota Commission
Serving Deaf and Hard of Hearing People (MCDHH) and the Minnesota Disability
Law Center (MDLC)
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Accessible Curricula: A Supplement by Terri Ricci As
a follow-up to the September issue’s story on the curriculum changes
at the University of Minnesota Medical School,
we are providing for you a synopsis of the Report on Disabilities Culture
from the subgroup that helped create and implement those changes. . .
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Halloween by Kevin Kling When
we moved to the country, we had to take the bus to school. The Catholic
kids sat up front, and the public kids in the back. All the Catholic
kids were then let off at St. Francis Catholic School, and we walked
a block and a half to the public school. On the way past St. Francis,
I put my fingers through the
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To Be or Not To Be ... Normal by Terri Ricci The
other day at lunch a few of us were discussing the new Medtronic pump
and the difficulties diabetics have due to the insufficient pancreatic
production of insulin. In other words, their pancreas doesn’t work
like a “normal” person’s. This discussion. . . |
Artist: Jane Gerus, St. Paul; Medium: acrylic paint; History:
she started drawing in 1980 while hospitalized—at the onset of mental
health disability in 1984, evolved to painting. VSA Arts helped her
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National Disability Mentoring Day October
15 is National Disability Mentoring Day. Begun in 1999 and set to coincide
with National Disability Employment Awareness Month, this day promotes
career development for students and job seekers with disabilities through
one-on-one job shadowing, group visits to public and private employers,
and hands-on career exploration. . . |
New partnership to enhance long-term care resources On-line
and in-person information about long-term care supports for older Minnesotans,
people with disabilities and their families will be enhanced as part
of “Tough Decisions...Clear
Choices,” a Minnesota initiative that recently received a federal grant.
“Providing clear choices at tough times can . . . |
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ACT Launches the Self-Advocacy Resource Network Advocating
Change Together (ACT) has launched a Self-Advocacy Resource Network.
Over the past several months, ACT received more than 1,000 responses
from people who want to receive and share information about promoting
self-advocacy at home, in school, at work, and in the community. . .
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Future Leaders Jenni, Age 16 In
her room she has stuffed animals, Barbie dolls, Boombox with lots
of music CD's, make-up, TV/VCR with a lot of VCR movies. She likes
to swim and play in the park near her house. Her school is a full
inclusion school, where all students learn in the same room. Her favorite
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