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Students With Disabilities Accommodating For Success!

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     When it comes to college, t here's no more"Individual Educational Plan" meaning people with disabilities have graduated from the Individual Educational Plan to the 504 plan. Living With Disabilities is going to share yet another story of Katrina's and give you some tips on how to  Advocate For Success!    Katrina Smith is an alumnus of Oak Forest High School, in Oak Forest Illinois. She graduated one year later than usual, in 1996 instead of 1995 due to some medical conditions. So, during her senior year, she started searching for different colleges to attend. After graduating in 1996 she then went on to a work program, Destiny Transition, and stay in that program until she was Twenty-one. She received her Diploma after exiting the program.     Proceeding to 2015 is when the educational door opened, Katrina Smith, made it through her assessment test, Scoring high in "Math" which she has no idea how that happened because, with her learning disability, sh

Advocating for disability Medical Health

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     When it comes to living with a disability and dealing with medical conditions, People with disabilities have to find medical insurance to help them stay healthy. Like, their counter partner abled body.  But, it all depends on the companies you chose to handle your care. Living With Disabilities will be taking you on a little trip through the host Katrina Smith current issue.  Katrina Smith was diagnosed with Osteoporosis at the age of twenty-two years old. When getting the papers of things to do and what to avoid with having low bone density; Metabolic bone disease. Her doctor at the time placed her on Fosamax until Katrina heard the news about people dying from this medication in the news. So, she told her doctor she wants a better alternative! Her doctor kept pushing Fosamax. Katrina knew right then and there, the doctor wasn't about her health, they were in for the money. So, Katrina changed doctors and on to a different doctor. This doctor here disagreed with taking Fosama

Ability To Workout

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              C oming into this world is a great experience, transitioning from one rim to the next, The Spiritual world to Mother Earth. We as people enter into the world with mental or physical disabilities. Some may develop a disability later in life. According to Katrina Smith, the host of Living With Disabilities .           In 2018 Katrina Smith, dealt with Depression, her depression left her unmotivated in doing things, she would find herself constantly laying down in her bed with tears flowing down her face one morning, she woke up crying silently. So, she quickly grabbed her phone off her nightstand and immediately reached out to one of her siblings. Katrina sibling shared with her that what she was dealing with was Depression. And she needs to let her mother know what's going on with her. So, she went to another sibling of hers and was sharing what she was going through, trying to hold back tears as she started sharing what was going on. Now, this was the second siblin