[NABS-L] creating a student organization on campus

[Roanna Bacchus]

Hi Ana thanks for your message. While I was in college, I was involved with a student organization for students with disabilities. This is a good idea for you to start this organization. Each semester we had meetings on a regular basis.

On Apr 12, 2018 11:31 PM, Ana Martinez via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all, hope everyone is doing good in this last months of the
> semester. So, I would like to start a student organization here on
> campus. And I’m looking for some insites. I would like to have an
> organization that creates awareness and fosters understanding towards
> students with disabilities. The purpose of this would be to include
> everyone on campus, I want this organization to be a way to educate my
> college as well as the surrounding communityabout the true
> capabilities of Disabled students. Besides the education portion, I
> would like to create a mentoring program, where college students with
> disabilities can serve as mentors to disabled high school students
> around the area.
> I believe that college is a place in which students constantly learn,
> and challenge preconceived notions, opinions and ideas. This would
> then be a great chance to challenge the general perception on
> disability, and provide the students with a more accurate
> representation.
> I think this could be a good idea, and that this organization could
> really make a difference and educate my college community.
> The only problem I have is, all the students I’ve met here on campus
> who have a disability , have a very bad philosophy about people with
> disabilities. Students here have a hierarchy of disability. For
> example: students with learning disabilities often help students in
> wheel chairs. And many disabled students think that those of us who
> are blind or deaf are “amazing because we are just doing things that
> every other college student does, like going to class. My question is,
> how to first educate the disabled students in my campus about other
> disabilities? I recognize I can’t start this organization if students
> don’t have good perceptions about themselves or others in the
> disability community. thanks.
>
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