Dear Friends,



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!



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).



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.



Could you please place http://home.att.net/~ysinger/ onto your web pages?



If you want to talk more, email me at [log in to unmask] .



Fighting the good fight,

Yvonne Singer

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