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Becoming Disabled - The New York Times - 0 views

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    "Becoming disabled demands learning how to live effectively as a person with disabilities, not just living as a disabled person trying to become nondisabled. It also demands the awareness and cooperation of others who don't experience these challenges. Becoming disabled means moving from isolation to community, from ignorance to knowledge about who we are, from exclusion to access, and from shame to pride."
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Reframing the meaning of disability to families: the embrace of paradox. - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views

  • Using in-depth case studies, this qualitative research examined the daily occupations and subjective well-being of six Mexican-origin mothers parenting children with disabilities. Emergent findings demonstrated that these mothers do express apparently contradictory emotions of grief and joy, hope and fear that influenced their subjective well-being. The meaning of the mothers' contrary statements was illuminated in a life metaphor, the embrace of paradox
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    reframing the meaning of disability- in Mexico
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Reaching Out to Customers with Disabilities -- Lesson One, Policies, Practices, and Pro... - 0 views

  • The ADA does not spell out exactly what you must do in every situation. It lets you decide what is reasonable based on how your business operates and what kind of accommodation the person needs because of his or her disability.
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    When to assist, and circumstances in stores and restaurants that "abled" persons may take for granted and not think of ahead of time. 
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Unwanted help: MyHandicap - 0 views

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    short example of unwanted assistance and sensitivity to that
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