It's a Wonderful Life

Disability culture -- "Disability can be represented as a culture, though the range of differences among the disabled is enormous.... Some difficult questions have already been asked.... Are people with severe developmental disabilities or learning disabilities regarded as full members of the club?"

"Disability gave me focus" says the man who lost his arm and describes his disability as an affirmation of his positive transformation.

"Through the arts we can make discoveries about what we have in common and place this emphasis on those things rather than on our differences...."

The chances for growth, expression, equality, education, are so much greater for people with disabilities today. Technology, People with Disabilities Act, incentives, infrastructure, a shift in cultural norms, to name a few; but if one lives in a "privileged" country; and only if one lives in the "right" part of a privileged country. Inability to fund programs for the disabled, prejudice, lack of access to technological advances, adequate infrastructure, healthcare, living in environmentally deprived settings, where education is for the very few among the "abled" (let alone the disabled), unemployment are deep concerns that burden a large portion of our global Collective. Omission of voice thus Presence, is another one.

1. Teacher Segregates Special-Ed and Black Students from White Students

2. Special-Ed, Vocational Void in Detroit

3.One Special Hindu Temple

4. Africa - Virtually no Rights for the Disabled

5. A Positive Shift in SE Asia

 

6. Europe and Disability