Archive for the ‘Connection’ Category

Lifekludger vision from outside

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 ...

ConnectingUp - Get ConnectED: Weaving A New Social Web for People with Disabilities.

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 ...

Talking about Tools to OTs

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 ...

Isolation kills

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 ...

occupational therapy lecture

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 ...