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Building Structure Around Our Disability

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Hello everyone, I'm Katrina from  Living with Disabilities . You're tuned into the Living with Disabilities Website, the advocacy website dedicated to helping people comprehend the disabled community. The core purpose of our website is to assist society in recognizing the full range of various disabilities and conditions. Accessibility is a key component of this understanding. Without accessibility, there's exclusion. This week, we'll explore  Building Structure Around Our Disability . Let's push 'Dis' aside and focus on the 'Ability' here at  Living with Disabilities .  This article takes a fresh look at the concept of 'Disability structure' in the context of Living with Disabilities. Many will read this article and ponder the subject, considering the gravity of disabilities and their timing. However, our discussion is not framed in that context.     We are broadening the understanding of how individuals with disabilities and conditions navi...

Accommodating on Wheels

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Hello everyone, I'm Katrina Smith from Living with Disabilities . You're tuned into the Living with Disabilities Website, the advocacy website dedicated to helping people comprehend the disabled community. The core purpose of our website is to assist society in recognizing the full range of various disabilities and conditions. Accessibility is a key component of this understanding. Without accessibility, there's exclusion. This week, we'll explore accommodations on wheels . Let's push 'Dis' aside and focus on the 'Ability' here at Living with Disabilities . Judy Heumann, also known as the mother of disability rights advocacy, would likely agree with Living with Disabilities' perspectives on accommodating individuals who use wheelchairs. Let's delve into this article. We've previously explored the disability movement that began in the early 1970s and the Netflix documentary 'Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution' on multiple occasions...

Tutoring for Better Success

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Welcome to the Living with Disabilities Advocacy website. First and foremost. Self-published author Katrina Smith, a person of many  accomplishments has written six volumes in total: two cookbooks and four collections of poetry. She is currently working on her self-help/autobiography. Her favorite activities include reading and writing. Katrina would be described by one word: determined. Despite any challenges she may encounter, she does not let unkind comments decide her fate.   If you're a new visitor to this advocacy website, this page aims to increase public understanding of those with disabilities and other conditions.   We suggest you seek a licensed professional counselor or healthcare provider for anything you read on this site .   This week, Living With Disabilities will discuss the importance of appropriate access to accommodations for students with disabilities when it comes to tutoring.  Before we begin, it's important to read this article thoroughly...

Silent Conditions

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   Welcome to the Living with Disabilities Advocacy website. First and foremost. Self-published author Katrina Smith, a person of many  accomplishments has written six volumes in total: two cookbooks and four collections of poetry. She is currently working on her self-help/autobiography. Her favorite activities include reading and writing. Katrina would be described by one word: determined. Despite any challenges she may encounter, she does not let unkind comments decide her fate.   If you're a new visitor to this advocacy website, this page aims to increase public understanding of those with disabilities and other conditions.   We suggest you seek a licensed professional counselor or healthcare provider for anything you read on this site . This week, Living with Disabilities will talk about different hidden Conditions. What are considered hidden conditions? how do you approach a person with these conditions? "Before anything else, it is important to remember th...

Deaf not, Death

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  Welcome to the Living with Disabilities Advocacy website. First and foremost. Self-published author Katrina Smith, a person of many  accomplishments has written six volumes in total: two cookbooks and four collections of poetry. She is currently working on her self-help/autobiography. Her favorite activities include reading and writing. Katrina would be described by one word: determined. Despite any challenges she may encounter, she does not let unkind comments decide her fate.   If you're a new visitor to this advocacy website, this page aims to increase public understanding of those with disabilities and other conditions.   We suggest you seek a licensed professional counselor or healthcare provider for anything you read on this site . This week, Living with Disabilities will talk about The Deaf Community, and why people who are deaf are not disabled. Living with Disabilities did not make a grammatical error in the title. I would like to explain that when people ...

What am I Doing Wrong in Advocating?

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Welcome to the Living with Disabilities Advocacy website. First and foremost. Self-published author Katrina Smith, a person of many  accomplishments has written six volumes in total: two cookbooks and four collections of poetry. She is currently working on her self-help/autobiography. Her favorite activities include reading and writing. Katrina would be described by one word: determined. Despite any challenges she may encounter, she does not let unkind comments decide her fate.  Before we get started on this topic, Living with Disabilities would want to make it clear that we will only be publishing two articles every month. We're not going to be weekly anymore. Every first and third Friday, a fresh article will be written. So, stay connected. In this sharing, is there such a thing as a bad advocacy strategy ? You want to be sure that you are advocating in the right way, whether it be for someone else or for yourself. It is important to steer clear of improper advocacy techniqu...

Financial Living

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  Welcome to the Living With Disabilities Advocacy website. First and foremost. Self-published author Katrina Smith, a person of many  accomplishments has written six volumes in total: two cookbooks and four collections of poetry. She is currently working on her self-help/autobiography. Her favorite activities include reading and writing. Katrina would be described by one word: determined. Despite any challenges she may encounter, she does not let unkind comments decide her fate.   If you're a new visitor to this advocacy website, this page aims to increase public understanding of those with disabilities and other conditions.   We suggest you seek a licensed professional counselor or healthcare provider for anything you read on this site . This week, Living With Disabilities will talk about living on a fixed income and why people with disabilities only get so little when it's not enough to hold us off for a week.  Before we discuss this issue, let's clarify the ...