Posted in Personal Stories on Oct 31st, 1995 No Comments »
© 1995 Guy Kawasaki A Baccalaureate speech given June 11, 1995 by Guy Kawasaki at Palo Alto High School. Guy Kawasaki was a Fellow at Apple Computer, Inc. when he gave this speech. Speaking to you today marks a milestone in my life. I am 40 years old. 22 years ago, when I was in [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Oct 31st, 1995 2 Comments »
© 1994-1995 Richard Wanderman Overview I am a successful dyslexic adult and part of the reason for my success is the fact that I use computers and other tools to organize my life and express my ideas. I am extremely opinionated. My strong feelings come from personal experience and the experience of thousands of people [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Oct 31st, 1995 1 Comment »
© 1990 Richard Wanderman Below are a few ideas that have come out of my own experience overcoming problems with writing. Purposive Learning, Risk Taking, and Motivation How do we help students or adults with language deficits to go through the difficult and sometimes humiliating process of learning how to write? People can and will [...]
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© 1982 Richard Wanderman I had a hard time with writing. I didn’t spend a lot of time doing it because it was such an unpleasant activity for me. Of course, it’s no wonder that I had a hard time with it, I didn’t write enough to get comfortable with it. My handwriting is so [...]
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on Oct 31st, 1995 Comments Off
© Judy Heumann An important aspect of attitudes I would like to address is language. As our movement has evolved, we have been plagued by people, almost always not themselves disabled, attempting to change what we call ourselves. If we are “victims” of anything, it is of such terms as “physically challenged, able-disabled, differently abled, [...]