[humanser] Person First?

[Kaiti Shelton]

Thanks all, for fueling my intellectual fire and my practice as a
student.  I appreciated what Lisa said in her first message, and will
be sure to give the Jernigan Speech JD linked to a listen this
afternoon.

I'm excited to see where this takes me, and thankful for the feedback.
I'll most likely have my first ever 1-on-1 client for practicum this
fall and was wondering how to handle myself and the client's
disability if that should come up in discussion.  I by and large doubt
that it won't be an issue as this client's disability is developmental
in nature, but I just wanted to be prepared and to have my curiosity
sated.

On 7/25/15, Lisa Irving via humanser <humanser at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Well spoken! From Lisa
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jul 25, 2015, at 7:36 AM, Merry Schoch via humanser
>> <humanser at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello JD,
>>
>> Thank you for the post.  I have been thinking of this speech as of late.
>> Perfect timing!
>>
>> I will be writing you off list soon!
>>
>> Thank you again!
>> Merry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of JD
>> Townsend via humanser
>> Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2015 10:21 AM
>> To: humanser at nfbnet.org
>> Cc: JD Townsend
>> Subject: [humanser] Person First?
>>
>>
>> Hello List:
>>
>> As a psychotherapist I acknowledge the importance of words and how our
>> identities & perceptions are flavored by our words, those spoken, those
>> perceived, and those written.
>>
>> NFB President Kenneth Jernigan spoke on the subject in “Blindness, Is
>> Literature Against Us?”.  This speech changed my view of blindness in the
>> 1970s.  Rereading it in 1980 I, again, began to see myself differently.  I
>> had graduated from Boston University in 1980 with a MSW degree and moved
>> to New Jersey.  I got lots of job interviews, but no job offers.  After
>> the re-read I stopped seeing myself as a blind person seeking employment
>> and began to see myself as a social worker with skills to offer.  Within
>> the next 2 weeks I had 3 job offers.
>>
>> Viewing myself as a person with blindness or as a blind person didn’t
>> matter.  It was seeing myself as a person complete in myself that
>> mattered.
>>
>> You can listen to this, to me, amazing speech at:
>>    https://nfb.org/Images/nfb/Video/Blindness_Is_Literature_Against_Us.wmv
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> JD Townsend LCSW
>> Helping the light dependent to see.
>> Daytona Beach, Earth, Sol System
>>
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-- 
Kaiti Shelton
University of Dayton-Music Therapy
President, Ohio Association of Blind Students 2013-Present
Secretary, The National Federation of the Blind Performing Arts
Division 2015-2016

"You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back!"