Disability Concerns
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Posted on September 24, 2012, 9:26 pm | 2 comments
Topics: Disability Concerns
On September 23 Alberta television stations featured a news item about a young lady who 'climbed' to the top of an 8000-foot mountain in Camrose, Alberta. What made Kuen Yang newsworthy is that she is a quadriplegic. Although she has enough movement in her hands to operate a joystick (to control e.g. a computer) and self-propel her wheelchair, she is totally dependent on others for personal care.
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Posted on September 18, 2012, 3:22 pm
Topics: Accessibility
Funding from Canadian government for accessibility projects includes churches. Up to $50K. Hurry! Deadline for application is October 5.
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Posted on September 18, 2012, 8:26 am
Topics: Accessibility
Churches that are serious about hospitality well think carefully and intentionally about the barriers to people with disabilities that are in their own architecture, communication, program, and attitude. A webinar Wednesday will give ideas for how to do that.
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Posted on September 12, 2012, 8:33 am
Topics: Accessibility
If we hope to have learnt something from the Paralympics, this truth has to be it. Only when the word disability is seen as including ‘ability’ will society have understood what it means.
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Posted on September 12, 2012, 7:46 am
Topics: Caring
They both live in good group homes that are clean, caring, and provide various evening activities. Their group home brings them to church on Sundays. What is missing from this picture?
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Posted on September 5, 2012, 3:08 pm
Topics: Church Education
This fine book by Barbara Newman just got better with the revised edition just out.
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Posted on September 4, 2012, 10:56 am | 2 comments
Topics: Caring
The language of creation replaces, and transcends, the language of loss, just as it does in life. The pastoral care-giver's question is not, “What have you lost? But “What’s it like?” and “What’s happening?”
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Posted on August 27, 2012, 11:49 am | 1 comment
Topics: Advocacy
Thirty-three percent of families changed their place of worship because their child with a disability was not included or welcomed into the life of the congregation. Of these families who left, some of them not only left their congregation, but left their faith tradition!
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Posted on August 22, 2012, 10:01 am
Topics: Accessibility
Another way to welcome and reach out: let people know that your church is "fragrance free" using this website.
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Posted on August 20, 2012, 7:54 am
Topics: Accessibility
In 1985, I received a spinal cord injury. Now I can control my body only from the neck up. At the time of the injury, computers were mainly used in large offices. Few homes had them, and they were not linked together outside of an organization. Technology has greatly changed since that time, especially in what is now common, the Internet.
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Posted on August 13, 2012, 7:48 am
Topics: Accessibility
While the Internet has opened up a vast amount of information to all computer users, computer screen reading software has also given me, as a blind person, access to that source of information and communication.
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Posted on August 6, 2012, 7:27 am
Topics: Worship
Quasimodo would spend his life in the tower unless the attitude of the people changed and their fears replaced by understanding and knowledge. The attitude of the people is the real horror in this story.
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Posted on July 31, 2012, 1:16 pm | 4 comments
Topics: Church Education
It comes simply and sincerely, “We’d like our son to be a Cadet!” Tony’s different from the other boys. He has some physical challenges, and he goes to a special school. He seems to walk a bit differently. Does this simple request throw you into a panic?
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Posted on July 24, 2012, 12:50 pm | 17 comments
Topics: Advocacy
Did James Holmes, described by a high school classmate as “really nice and sweet,” decide one day to become a mass murderer?
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Posted on July 24, 2012, 9:12 am
Topics: Accessibility
Bible publishers use the terms "large," "extra large," or "giant print" for editions of the Bible which are not truly large print. So, to avoid confusion, here is a list of truly large print Bibles in various versions.
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