From: "Lee Hassinger" <[log in to unmask]>
IDAR Sloan Dart, Daughter of the Late Disability Rights Leader Justin
Dart Jr. to be featured on "Disability Matters" with Joyce Bender
PITTSBURGH, PA- IDAR Sloan Dart will be featured with Joyce Bender on
"Disability Matters" on Tuesday, July 26, 2005, from 2 PM to 3 PM
Eastern Time. This show will be dedicated to honoring the life and work
of her father, the late disability rights leader Justin Dart Jr. On the
day of IDAR's appearance, we celebrate the 15th anniversary of this
landmark legislation signed into law by President George H.W. Bush on
July 26, 1990. Best known as the father of the Americans with
Disabilities Act, Justin Dart Jr. is often referred to as the Martin
Luther King of the disability civil rights movement; he thought of
himself in much more humble terms - simply as a soldier of justice.
Justin dedicated nearly 50 years of his life to advocacy for the civil
rights of oppressed people in America and around the world.
IDAR is the oldest of Justin's 5 biological daughters, among his family
of well over 100 foster daughters - all of whom he loved equally - heart
and soul.
After her parents divorced, on occasion, IDAR visited her father in
Japan in the summers. At 9 years of age, IDAR spent the summer touring
Japan with her father and Yoshiko, singing Japanese songs at Tupperware
events. When she was 13, her father named her IDAR. (Pronounced
I-DARE, like "I dare you.") An acronym - I Daughter of the American
Revolution, her new name, was both a philosophy of life and a direct
challenge to live it.
He wrote: IDAR to live,
IDAR to love,
IDAR to know the freedom,
IDAR to be responsible to life,
That's my religion.
IDAR is the Executive Vice President of a Texas-wide professional
massage therapy-training program. She has 3 grown children, 2
grandsons, and lives with her husband in the Texas Hill Country, west of
Austin.
The host of Disability Matters, Joyce A. Bender, is President and CEO of
Bender Consulting Services, Inc. (BCS) and its "sister company" Bender
Consulting Services of Canada, Inc. (BCSC). BCS provides competitive
employment opportunities for Americans with disabilities in the areas of
information technology, engineering, finance/accounting, human resources
and general business. In 1985, Joyce had a life-threatening accident
due to epilepsy, which caused an intracranial hemorrhage that required
subsequent brain surgery. Against all odds, Joyce recovered from this
accident that left her with a 60 percent hearing loss in one ear and a
realization that she had epilepsy. As a result of her personal
experience, she developed a passion for helping people with disabilities
and founded both companies. Ms. Bender is the recipient of the 2003 New
Freedom Initiative Award from the Bush Administration, as well as the
1999 President's Award from President Clinton.
For more information on Joyce A. Bender and her companies, Bender
Consulting Services, Inc. and Bender Consulting Services of Canada,
Inc., visit, http://www.benderconsult.com or
http://www.benderofcanada.com. To learn more about Voice America, visit,
http://www.voiceamerica.com. Past radio broadcasts are archived on
http://www.benderconsult.com. To learn more about the life and work of
Justin Dart Jr. visit,
http://www.namiscc.org/Experiences/2002/JustinDart.htm, or
http://www.nod.org/content.cfm?id=1054.
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Lee Hassinger
Associate Research Assistant
Bender Family of Companies
3 Penn Center West
Suite 223
Pittsburgh, PA 15276
Office Phone: 787-8567
Direct Line: 412-446-4450
Fax: 412-787-7178
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Be sure to tune into "Disability Matters with Joyce Bender" every
Tuesday from 2 PM to 3 PM Eastern Time at www.voiceamerica.com.
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