Right on, Kathy :)
Yvonne
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathy Pink" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Yvonne Singer" <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: "Cerebral Palsy List" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2007 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: Psychology of the Handicapped
> Yvonne,
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> I totally agree. Having any type of disability shouldn't prevent a person
> from becoming aproductive member of society. Medical Doctors can not
> determine the full extent of a person's brain damage (that is IF they
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> DO have brain damage) especially if they can't communicate or have
> problems
> communicating.
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> Kathy
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> On 8/3/07, Yvonne Singer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Dear Friends,
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>> Having any kind of disabilities should not prevent anybody from becoming
>> a
>> productive member of society. If medical doctors cannot determine the
>> full
>> extent of a person's brain damage, how can they assume that the person
>> has
>> very low intelligence, especially when she or he has no way of
>> communicating? In addition, how can these doctors predict the person
>> will
>> never do anything? Doctors know that science presents a lot of trial and
>> error. They should say, "Since the person has no way of communicating,
>> we
>> cannot determine his or her intelligence at this time. We recommend the
>> person must seek therapy and education." This way the person has hope of
>> a
>> better life!
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>> Even though nobody thought that I would not amount to anything due to
>> having
>> severe Cerebral Palsy, I am an on-line psychology professor at Middlesex
>> County College. If I had given up fighting up the good fight, I would
>> have
>> died a long time ago. An article, entitled Her greatest lesson is her
>> tenacity (http://home.att.net/~ysinger/slartps.htm), was published in the
>> Star Ledger. I recently wrote an essay called Teaching The "Yes, I Can"
>> Attitude
>> (
>> http://prod.campuscruiser.com/cruiser/middlesexcc/yvonnems2369/canyes.html
>> ).
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>> On February 16, 2007, I submitted a course proposal to teach Psychology
>> of
>> Handicapped on-line for Middlesex County College. I quickly taught myself
>> how to search for college textbooks and software because I never received
>> any assistance. It was disheartening to rediscover that there are not
>> many
>> college textbooks on developmental disabilities. To my amazement, there
>> are
>> many textbooks about other minorities such as African Americans and
>> Gender
>> Issues. Why? It is quite simple. As long as people with disabilities do
>> not
>> have a voice, they must continue fighting the good fight in order to gain
>> equal rights and equal opportunities. When I finally found an appropriate
>> textbook, I was so thrilled! After the course proposal was approved on
>> 4/4/2007, I designed Psychology of the Handicapped on-line classroom in
>> WebCT 4.1.1 format. I collected numerous Internet links to support the
>> course materials because the textbook did not come with SOFTWARE. I plan
>> to
>> teach this course as an adjunct during Spring 2008. Originally, I was
>> going
>> to teach it this Fall 2007.
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>> Could you please place http://home.att.net/~ysinger/ onto your web pages?
>>
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>> If you want to talk more, email me at [log in to unmask] .
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>> Fighting the good fight,
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>> Yvonne Singer
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