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10 The path to employment? Low expectations of people with disabilities.
Over the course of my 50+ years of living as a person with a disability I have noticed that most people, have very low expectations and very low employment and career demands upon people with disabilities. As with Pygmalion in the Classroom, people with disabilities as with most people live up to or down to the expectations they perceive people have about them. We must individually overcome that.
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Love the way you have organized the material and especially impressed at how you can share some very personal memories.
@707guy
3 жыл бұрын
I hope to broach other subjects as well.
Loving these more as I gooooo! FYI the mic gets covered about halfway through making it very difficult to hear a portion of the video.
@707guy
3 жыл бұрын
I am very glad you are enjoying these. I apologize for the technical issues. We are beginning as very amateur video producers and we both hope production quality will creep up over time.
What types of books did you enjoy the most, fiction or nonfiction? Did you like to and were you able to read magazines and newspapers?
@707guy
3 жыл бұрын
I have always been an avid reader. I read for enjoyment, I read as required for school and work and I also read for self-improvement and simply learning more about life.
You said you were a voracious reader, and you took advantage of the well stocked book shelves in your home. That was before ebooks. Did someone turn the pages for you, or were the books somehow placed in front of you in such a way that you could turn the pages yourself?
@707guy
3 жыл бұрын
When I was first injured and still living at home the large selection of books all around the house and periodicals which arrived regularly (Life Magazine, National Geographic, Smithsonian) were a welcome pastime. In the early days, I would place a book or magazine on a stand made to hold sheet music and placed that next to my wheelchair. At first, it was necessary to have someone turn each page for me. Later, some technology moved in to help. Very sophisticated technology such as a stick held in the mouth. But seriously, to get it to be easily functional and to be able to "put it down" somewhere between page turns or I could reach it again took some thinking. Much more will follow on this and additional technology in future videos.
In school, were you required to learn a foreign language?
@707guy
3 жыл бұрын
Yes. California public school, K-12 requires I think one year of a foreign language. Most colleges and universities also have a somewhat minimal foreign language requirement.