Students with disabilities require some additional care other than what is given to full-functioning students. As a teacher, you may need to position yourself so the deaf students are able to see, and read, your lips at all times. You might also need to have a signal, such as a flash of the classroom lights, to gain… [Continue Reading]
Top Careers for Individuals with a Disability
May 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Living with a disability isn’t the easiest thing to do. You have many people who tell you that you can’t pursue certain career options just because you have a disability. The thing is no matter what others tell you, if you have a disability you can do anything you want with your life and pursue… [Continue Reading]
Lifestyle Changes After a Traumatic Brain Injury
May 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Once someone experiences a traumatic brain injury their lives are dramatically changed. Some are left depending on family or friends for basic care. Others might need therapy to retrain their brain to preform the once basic and habitual tasks such as walking or holding objects. There are still many more people… [Continue Reading]
Wheelchairs for Dogs
April 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In the earlier times, when the dogs had injuries, they had no other option except to bear that pain for a long time and in the worst case scenario, even for a life time. Image source – http://sfvs.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/mrfrantasitcfrenchie9300w1.jpg A dog with disability is too difficult to be controlled by an owner. Hence, this may lead… [Continue Reading]
Discovering Dyscalculia
March 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Many people are not aware of a learning disability called Dyscalculia. Just what is it exactly? If we split this word in half “dys”, which is Greek, means bad or badly and “calculere”, in Latin, is to count. You guessed it! Dyscalculia is a disability of one whom as problems with mathematical problems and equations…. [Continue Reading]
All About Asperger
March 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
When dealing with a child that has Asperger Syndrome, it is confused many times with Autism. Children who suffer from Asperger show signs later in their childhood then Autistic children. These signs appear around the time when a child starts preschool or kindergarten. As the child grows up to their teen years and adulthood, the… [Continue Reading]
Paraplegic Hero Becomes Career Politician
March 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This is the story of a man we’ll call Tim, and how his life turned out far differently than he had imagined it would be. Since he was a child, Tim had always wanted to be a policeman, and his wish came true. He had a successful career on the force of a mid-sized town… [Continue Reading]