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See original article at Disabled World Newsletter, September 1st, 2009 Disabled World Newsletter, September 1st, 2009
Disabled World Community Newsletter, September 1st, 2009.
New Video Blog Opens Eyes to Treatment of Disabled The Deal With Disability is a new video blog capturing one 26-year-old woman's experience navigating through life with a "severe" physical disability. Eva Sweeney was born with a condition called cerebral palsy, which means that she cannot walk, speak, or use her muscles in conventional ways. She uses a power wheelchair to get around and spells out what she wants to say on a letter board. READ MORE...New Video Blog Opens Eyes to Treatment of Disabled Action For Kids - An Organization for Children and Young People with Disabilities Action for Kids achieves their goals through providing mobility equipment to help independent movement, work-related learning to assist with access to employment, furthering education, and alternate career opportunities. They also provide family support services to disseminate information, support and advocacy. The organization promotes independent living, teaches domestic and additional practical skills as well. The organization values friendliness, approachability, personal contact, dedication, and openness. READ MORE...Action For Kids - An Organization for Children and Young People with Disabilities Service Dogs - Baker Dog Behavioral Centre Service dogs have been recognized in the community for many years as guide dogs and hearing assist dogs. In the last twenty years or so, assistance dogs have been recognized for helping physically challenged people. More recently, Therapy dogs are becoming better known in the health care industry. READ MORE...Service Dogs - Baker Dog Behavioral Centre Crossing the Indian Ocean with a Disability After 58 days 15 hours and 8 minutes it is the fastest crossing of the Indian Ocean by oar and the first eight person mixed crew. Helen Taylor and I became the first women to row across the Indian Ocean and I became the first disabled woman to not only row across the Indian but to have rowed across 2 oceans. I had completed the Atlantic Ocean crossing in a pairs boat with Franck Festor after nearly 67 days at sea on February 07, 2008 That was another story and completely different experience. READ MORE...Crossing the Indian Ocean with a Disability Blind Texan From Germany To Challenge 6 day Ultra-marathon Record Jeffrey Taylor Norris, a runner from Texas who settled in Germany after a 1992 head injury that lead to blindness, isn’t really trying to set a world record as he take part in the 6-day Run for your Children’s Sake charity race in Gothenburg, Sweden beginning Sunday, August 30. Although Norris runs strictly for personal satisfaction, he seems likely to break the 6-day ultra-marathon record for blind runners. READ MORE...Blind Texan From Germany To Challenge 6 day Ultra-marathon Record Pre-eclampsia and Diet in Pregnant Women A chemical compound found in unpasteurised food has been detected in unusually high levels in the red blood cells of pregnant women with the condition pre-eclampsia. These results are important because they suggest that the compound, 'ergothioneine', is an indicator of pre-eclampsia and may help scientists to understand the cause of the condition, which is currently unknown. READ MORE...Pre-eclampsia and Diet in Pregnant Women Traumatic Brain Injuries and Dependencies Following a traumatic brain injury, the survivor may become dependent upon those close to them. These dependencies may be emotional in nature or based on a substance abuse. Whatever dependency is involved, it can lead to difficulties in recovering from the injury. Some of the emotional problems that can lead to dependency are a result of lack of initiative; lack of motivation; planning and problem solving difficulties and lack of self-esteem. Autism - Sensing and Intuition Sensing shifts in the environment and people, and intuitively "reading" the emotions, personality, temperament (in the moment) and mood of people in close proximity, can be an innate skill, ever-present in an autistic individual. Some people believe that children on the spectrum, who perhaps aren’t responding immediately or don’t verbally communicate, and who may seem absorbed in their own ‘world’, are perhaps devoid of feeling and sensing what is going on around them or are unaware of or non-receptive to the emotions, disposition, verbal or physical expressions and requests of another person. READ MORE...Autism - Sensing and Intuition Maintaining Mobility Scooter Batteries Taking care of a mobility scooter battery is essential to maintain its performance in terms of speed and distance per charge. When you use the scooter know that the battery is at its peak and the independence it provides will not turn negative. Here are simple steps for taking care of the electric scooter battery. Charging of the battery, according to the manufacturers recommendation, is an essential part of keeping the batteries performing at their best. After any type of use it is advisable to plug in the battery charger so the mobility scooter will be ready for the next outing. READ MORE...Maintaining Mobility Scooter Batteries Removing Barriers of Autism Via Keyboard Removing the barriers of autism - Children with autism use alternative keyboard to communicate with their families and their world. Autism can build a wall of poor communication between those struggling with the condition and their families. While a personal computer can help bridge the divide, the distraction and complexity of a keyboard can be an insurmountable obstacle. READ MORE...Removing Barriers of Autism Via Keyboard Changing Mentalities During a Day of Serving Special-needs Running consecutive trips for groups with vastly different special-needs can be a mental and emotional workout. Yesterday, for example… a grieving family came out with us. It wasn’t a case of a family member passing away. It was a case of the father having to leave to serve a jail term. The children and wife were suffering terribly and they needed a family educational adventure to have as a memory. They had a blast and built a beautiful memory together. READ MORE...Changing Mentalities During a Day of Serving Special-needs Seniors and Health Insurance Reform Secretary Sebelius Releases New Report: America’s Seniors and Health Insurance Reform: Protecting Coverage and Strengthening Medicare. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today issued a new report, America’s Seniors and Health Insurance Reform: Protecting Coverage and Strengthening Medicare. The report highlights the problems with the status quo that leave seniors paying escalating costs for their health care while outlining how health insurance reform will strengthen Medicare and protect coverage for seniors. READ MORE...Seniors and Health Insurance Reform What do You Want to do Today - Sensory Preferences It's a common scenario. You're finally able to carve out time for the family to do something fun together, only to have everyone disagree about what that "something fun" should be. The precious family time you so painstakingly eked out from the busy schedule ends up being spent on conflict resolution instead, not what you originally intended! Often, disagreements about how to spend family time stem from sensory considerations. READ MORE...What do You Want to do Today - Sensory Preferences Disabled World (www.disabled-world.com) provides a large range of worldwide health and disability information. Disabled World Welcomes Health and Disability Related Press Releases and Article Submissions © Copyright 2011 - Disabled World News - www.disabled-world.com |