Archive for the ‘Connection’ Category
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
The other day my vanity feeds came up with another connection - this time in the shape of a photo on flickr that references Lifekludger being used in a blog post.
The post was by Mike Poole who'd used a photo of a drawing Roy Blumenthal had started for me when ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
The following is fro the Blog of Beth Kanter, a friend who's up in Brisbane at the ConnectingUp Conference for Non-profits. Big thanks to Beth.
I am posting her notes on this breakout session as it highlights some of the key Benefits and Barriers for people living with disability participating in ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
The group of Occupational Therapy students at UNISA I spoke with yesterday about how to use tools to do life with disability. The course title is "Enabling Occupation" Occupation being any activity in this case. I like to simplify that to mean "Helping to do stuff". Which ain't a bad ...
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Social Isolation kills - period.
It kills a person’s hope, kills their spirit, and kills their potential.
I know a little about this phenomenon but thankfully less than a lot in the realm of those people who are living with a disability. I know a lot more about it second hand ...
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Just like last year, I gave my lecture about my life with disability and the things I've learnt along the way to a class of OT students at UNISA a couple weeks ago.
Another big group and two hours trying talk loud as I could meant I was buggered aftewards
but ...
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