[Ohio-talk] FW: A U.S. History of People with Disabilities

[Deborah Kendrick]

JW and all, 
Thanks so much for sending this excerpt along.  This book is available on
the NLS BARD web site as DB75554 and I have intended to read it, but your
email has prompted me to move it to sooner rather than later!  I have read
other books by this author -- The Radical Lives of Helen Keller, and Beyond
the Miracle Worker, to name two -- and she really gets it.  
Thanks again for the nudge.
Deborah


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Colleagues, I plan on getting this book and perhaps some of you might be
interested as well?

Jw

Dr. JW Smith
Associate Professor
Interim Associate Director for Undergraduate Studies School of Communication
Studies
740-593-4838
smithj at ohio.edu<mailto:smithj at ohio.edu>

"Regarding the past, change what you can, and can what you can't."

From: Purdy, Darrell
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:38 PM
To: Dagostino, Martin; Gut, Dianne; Fonseca, James; Hall-Jones, Jenny;
Pesta, Jenny; Wadley, Joni; Jordan, Jennifer; Butcher, Joan; Smith, JW;
Hawk, Lacey; Lininger, Leisha; Lonsinger, Linda; Mike Beaver; Blickle, Ruth;
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Stephen; Webb, Abagail; Planisek, Dick; Kremer, Greg; DeWert, Marjorie;
Marty Dagostino; Hess, Michael; Noah Trembley; Reynolds, Sharon
Cc: Myers, Laura; Wyatt, Harry
Subject: A U.S. History of People with Disabilities

In the 1990's while serving as Wyoming's  Tech Act Project Director I had
the opportunity to work with a wise and well-travelled disability rights
advocate for the State of Wyoming who served on  my Wyoming Tech Act
Council.  His name was Willy,  he lived with significant mobility and speech
disabilities that came into his life as a result of a biker accident.  And
of the many valuable lessons Willy offered me there is one lesson that
stands out among the others.  Willy regularly admonished me to always
remember and never forget the history belonging to the people who have come
before me who lived with disabilities.  And he challenged if not expected me
to make sure those who would come into my life didn't forget and always
remembered this history too.  He offered that the history..."our history"
is what gives the context...the "why" of the work of inclusion and
accessibility.   Without our history as a part of the context, he would
argue, our work will not provide for the outcome we want and so desperately
need.
There is a book I came across recently from which I have attached an
excerpt, "A Disability History of the United States".  The book was
published in 2012 and I have found it to be both instructive and powerfully
moving (was for me).  In honoring Willy's admonition would you review the
attached excerpt and consider even purchasing the book so together we can
apply its lessons in and through our work at Ohio University?

Warmly,


Darrell Purdy,  M.Ed
Assistant Director for Employee Accommodation and Campus Accessibility
Office for Institutional Equity An Office of the Executive Vice President
and Provost Ohio University
101 Harry B. Crewson House
Athens, Ohio 45701
(740) 593-1007
purdyd at ohio.edu<mailto:purdyd at ohio.edu>

http://www.ohio.edu/equity/

http://www.ohio.edu/policy/03-003.html

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