Posted in Personal Stories on Oct 30th, 2009 No Comments »
John Irving
If you listen to this issue of OnPoint, once you run the player and the entire show has loaded, if you want to skip to the part where Irving talks about his learning issues, drag the slider to 40 minutes where a caller asks him about this.
In short, he says that the multitasking in [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Sep 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Including Samuel
Photographer Dan Habib’s documentary on his son Samuel’s experience as a child with a disability and his own experience as Samuel’s father.
Check out the extended trailer.
Posted in Personal Stories on Sep 7th, 2009 No Comments »
The Deal with Disability
Hey, I’m Eva. I’m 26 and a recent college graduate. I like to write, to take Digital photographs, and just chill. But this blog is not about what I like. This blog is about how people treat me. You see, I am physically disabled. Actually “severely” physically disabled. I have Cerebral Palsy, [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Sep 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Behind the Scenes: Lost and Found
John Trotter is a professional photographer who suffered a traumatic brain injury and memory loss from being beaten. During and after his recovery he documented the lives of various people who have suffered brain injuries and memory loss and assembled them in a body of photographs: The Burden of [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Aug 24th, 2009 No Comments »
A Son’s Lesson for a Pilot (His Mother)
I learned early in life that I would always have to work harder than other people. I’m dyslexic. Conquering challenges, big and small, has been my obsession since I was a child. When I was on my high school diving team, I dove from the highest platforms, doing [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Aug 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
This is a very rare piece of film which is incredible, made me cry. Sullivan was way ahead of her time in the way she taught Keller and it took them many years to get this communication system worked out, let alone Keller’s speech which she had no auditory model for.
[via Boing Boing]
Posted in Personal Stories on Jan 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
Autistic savant Daniel Tammet on his new book about the neurology of learning, in his mind and in yours.
Posted in Personal Stories on Sep 17th, 2008 3 Comments »
Paul Smith was an artist who had cerebral palsy and used a typewriter to “draw.” Using a machine like a typewriter makes perfect sense when one has spasticity in one’s hands but thinking about how these drawings were made boggles the mind. Yes, typewriters used monofonts (typefaces where each letter was equal in width) so [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Jul 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Sarah Smith Nessel has written a great essay for the Kansas City Star: ‘Normal” shouldn’t be the only acceptable realm.
…for many of us with less-severely affected children, the “tragedy” of Autism simply isn’t. In our current culture of pathology, children who 50 years ago would have just been considered a bit odd, or loners, now [...]
Posted in Personal Stories on Jun 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
© 2008 Richard Mellott
I started out as a kid who was always active, never fit in, and had trouble making friends my own age. I’d get beaten up because I was awkward and wore glasses, so I retreated into reading books. By the time I was 14, I had read Freud, Jung, Hesse, Heinlein, Asimov, [...]