Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Big Sigh!

I just have to laugh sometimes at how little people know or care to know about issues that impact people with disabilities. I must truly enjoy the challenge because I insist on immersing myself in groups that have little to zero focus on disability and becoming their token disability person. Part of a response I just read in an email from someone was about how AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) is questionable because one sentence on a Wikipedia page referred to how users of AAC often have poor literacy and are unlikely to be in employment. I read the entire Wikipedia page and found several more references that explained that it was environmental factors and not having better access to technology that contributed to this among other things. Seriously, show me the respect as an intelligent person to read at least the whole Wikipedia page before you find the one sentence that in your mind shows that asking for access to AAC for students in schools is not some wacky far out thing. For the love of god!!!

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