Living With Disabilites

First, welcome to the Living With Disabilities Advocacy Website. It's run by none other than Katrina Smith, who's a person with a learning disability. Her mission behind Living With Disabilities is to bring awareness to all people with disabilities.   Today, Living With Disabilities wants to talk about an article that was in the news recently about Abortion because of disability.      Governor Jim Justice of West Virginia signed paperwork making it unlawful for parents to abort their kid if they suspect the infant may have a disability. In the event of a medical emergency or when a pregnancy is "nonmedically feasible," the "Unchild with Disabilities Protection and Education Act" grants freedom. It was also one of the most controversial legislation voted on during the 2022 legislative session. They went on to say that it would better protect disabled people. Others argue that the plan was simply a tool to push West Virginia's abortion laws forward. After

    First, welcome to the Living With Disabilities Advocacy Website. It's run by none other than Katrina Smith, who's a person with a learning disability. Her mission behind Living With Disabilities is to bring awareness to all people with disabilities.   Today, Living With Disabilities wants to talk about Employment discrimination.    By a show of hands, how many of you have watched the Netflix documentary " Crip Camp "? If you have not watched it, Living With Disabilities will break down the most important aspects of this documentary. So, you can check it out for yourself.     In the early 1970s, a group of teenagers with different disabilities experienced a future of formed isolation, judgment, and harmonization.   It's time to load your backpack and stand outdoors waiting for the bus because it's time to get schooled through the Crip Camp syllabus.   This group of teenagers addressed power and disability rights, power and civil rights, ableism language an

    First, welcome to the Living With Disabilities Advocacy Website. It's run by none other than Katrina Smith, who's a person with a learning disability. Her mission behind Living With Disabilities is to bring awareness to all people with disabilities.     Before getting into today's topic, Living With Disabilities says: Do not allow the name to bamboozle you.    Today, Living With Disabilities wants to talk about disabilities caused by drinking under the influence. This topic is very sensitive for the host to write about. But, She'll pull herself together and deliver the message to you. Is it possible for driving to cause a disability ? Accidents can happen to anyone on the road or in the workplace, and they can result in serious injuries and disability.  A neck sprain is referred to as whiplash.  Whiplash isn't the only type of injury that can occur when driving; there are a variety of other injuries that can occur. Automobile accidents kill and injure more peopl

  Welcome to living with, I'm your host Katrina Smith, and on today, so I'll be talking to Thomas Domsic. 0:00:31 Speaker 1 Hey, how are you? I'm fine. How are you? Good? It's great. Do you mind if I ask you some questions? Sure. Go ahead. Okay. Um, what do you do for a living? All right. Now, I am not working in anywhere I for the last couple years, I have not worked. But this year, especially, I've been doing a lot of Cerebral palsy advocacies and just raising awareness. Prior to the last couple of years, I used to work at an auto salvage yard doing like customer service and being like a parts professional. I did that for about five years. 0:01:22 Speaker 1 Okay, 0:01:24 Speaker 1 what age were you diagnosed with cerebral palsy? at two years old 0:01:33 Speaker 1 Can you explain what Cerebral Palsy is, and what were the symptoms? Basically? In simple terms, I would say it's basically to your brain, telling your nerves too, do something that basically, in the