Against All Oddsovercoming the obstacles

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Attitude• Depressed • Self a steam lowered • Let the disability get the best of them • be content with who you are

Success in school

• IEP – Individual education Plan – education plan

• IDEA – Individuals with Disabilities education act – schools offer special education to those in need

• FAPE – Free Appropriate Public education –

ADA • Equals the playing field • Provides accommodations from employer+

government • companies are not allowed to discriminate

against those who have disabilities mindset •

Rehabilitation Act • 1973 • Prohibits discrimination in programs and

services • States no person who is handicapped should

be excluded •

Dan Liest • Research department for Met Life • Process insurance claims+ bills • Has muscular dystrophy • Can feed but cant shower • At met life he has equipped phone + comp

Pam Holmes • Deaf early on in life • Wanted to become a music teacher • attitude: reason she became deaf • Advocate for people with Disabilities

Bethany Hamilton • Pro surfer • Age 13 shark attack amputated left arm • Thought she was never going to surf again • Less than a month later she was back on the

board• Reconfigure and re learn how to do things one

handed

The Gaze • “ The human is self conscious, conscious of

himself of his human reality and dignity. - (Wollen 92)

• Ways people view those with disabilities is a whole other challenge

• Not part of the norm

The End • Capable• Have to learn from experience • Success does no come easy have to wait and

work at it