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- At the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts...The Possibilities are Endless
- Literary Works in the DRL
- Education & Training Events
- Community Living Transition Grant Recipient Selected
- Quotation
At the Kennedy Center for Performing
Arts . . .THE
POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS
You’re in
DC and decide at the last minute to attend a play at the Kennedy Center. When you call for tickets, you request an
interpreter. You fully expect to be
told that you haven’t given enough notice. You are thrilled to learn that your
request will be accommodated.
“People
with disabilities should have the same access to our programs and facilities as
everyone else,” says Betty Siegel, the Kennedy Center’s Director of Accessibility. “We do what it takes to make it
happen."
Founded in
1991, the Kennedy Center’s accessibility program now serves as a national
model. Audio description, sign language
interpreters, assisted listening devices, and wheelchair seating welcome a cross-disability
audience.
The
physical evidence represents but a small part of the Kennedy Center’s
accessibility program. Extensive staff
training, an internship program which includes individuals with and without
disabilities, and a dynamic program director make accessibility “a way of doing
business.”
“A 90-year-old lady recently phoned about attending a performance,” recounts Betty Siegel. “She was worried that her 94-year-old friend wouldn’t be able to walk the distance from the door to her seat. I explained that they need only make themselves known to the doorman, who would promptly bring a wheelchair. He would then direct them to an usher, who would escort them to their seats and assist with transferring out of the wheelchair. She called the day after the performance, delighted that things had ‘happened so naturally.’”
Literary Works in the DRL
Iowa Learning About Life: A
Curriculum
Des Moines: State Public Policy
Group and Governor’s Developmental Disabilities Council [2004].
A second grade study package designed to help students
become more attuned to people with disabilities. Each lesson focuses on one of thirteen mainstream children’s
books, which is accompanied by an activity.
A directory of Iowans with disabilities that are available to speak to
school classes is included with the curriculum. #3009
Reflections from a Different
Journey: What Adults with Disabilities Wish All Parents Knew
Klein, S.D. & Kemp, J.D.,
(Eds.) (2004). New York:
McGraw-Hill.
Essays thoughtfully addressed to the current generation
parenting children with disabilities. #2599
Learning to Fall: The Blessings
of an Imperfect Life
Simmons, P.E. (2002). New York: Bantam Books.
Philip Simmons’ story of his spiritual quest undertaken in
the throes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. #2178
Riding the Bus with My Sister: A
True Life Journey
Simon, R. (2002). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Rachel Simon bonds with Beth, her “extravagantly social and
nonconforming” sister with mental retardation, on a breathless reel of city bus
adventures. #1164
Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My
Journey Through Autism
Prince-Hughes, D. (2004). New York: Harmony Books.
Dawn Prince-Hughes’ troubled early existence with Asperger
syndrome takes a decided turn for the better as she observes, and interacts
with, a band of zoo gorillas who teach her the lessons of communication, socialization,
and affection that she heretofore could not assimilate from her own culture.
#2875
Listening in the Silence, Seeing
in the Dark: Reconstructing Life after Brain Injury
Johansen, R.K. (2002). Berkeley: University of California Press.
An extraordinary book on how the gift of words, the power of
communication, helped one family prevail over brain injury. #498
The Boy and the Dog are Sleeping
Nasdijj (2003). New York: Ballantine Books.
A Navaho youth with AIDS is adopted by Nasdijj – a father who
can heal the soul, but not the ravaged body of his son. An indictment of streamlined medicine and
bureaucratic red tape written in elegiac prose.
#2172
Not Even Wrong: Adventure in
Autism
Collins, P. (2004). New York: Bloomsbury.
Keen, yet sensitive, inquiry into the genius of autism,
interwoven with a very personal story. #2885
Creativity and Disease: How
Illness affects Literature, Art, and Music (12th
ed.)
Sandblom, P. (1992). New York: Marion Boyers.
All Disability Resource Library services are free to people with disabilities and to members of their families. Other individuals and community service providers are asked to pay a per item fee to borrow materials, or they may purchase an annual subscription. There is no charge to anyone for assistance with finding information. To contact the Disability Resource Library at the Center for Disabilities and Development, phone 800-272-7713, email disability-library@uiowa.edu, or visit on the web at http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/uhs/DRL/index.cfm
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Education & Training Events
Going from Good to GREAT
April 13, Four Points Sheraton, Des Moines
Daylong workshop for service agencies. Topics include person-centered planning,
flexible and responsive service, and staff retention. More information: Becky Godfrey, bgodfrey@dhs.state.ia.us.
• 11th Annual
Inclusive Education Symposium
April 16, 8:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Jones Commons, 3rd Floor North, Lindquist
Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Topic: Sharing Strategies & Research for
Working with Students with Disabilities. Everyone welcome, no registration
fee. More information: jo-hendrickson@uiowa.edu
or alexandra-trout@uiowa.edu
• Parent Expectations
at Work
April 18,
Webcast sponsored by
Virginia
Commonwealth University
Dusty, a young woman with Down Syndrome and
her parents share experiences which led to Dusty’s living in the community and
owning a small business, “Dusty’s Puppets.”
For more information and
registration, visit http://www.vcu.edu/rrtcweb/cyberu/webcast/webcast.htm or
contact Teri Blankenship at 804-828-2197 (voice) 804-828-2494 (TTY) or
tcblanke@vcu.edu
• Consumer Direction
and Living in the Community (online course)
April 18 - May 6, Instructor: Helen
Roth
Understand how consumer direction can
empower people with disabilities to plan and direct their own services. Online registration available at:
www.ilru.org/news/Training/ILNET/online2005.htm.
• Autism and
Inclusion Strategies for Home, School, and Community
April 21 - 22, Holiday Inn, Davenport, IA
Autism training and inclusion conference
targeting family members, therapists
and teachers sponsored by Spectrum Training Systems. National experts Maria Wheeler and Paula
Kluth will share behavioral and inclusion intervention strategies for students
with autism and other disabilities. For more information, go to http://www.spectrumtrainingsystems.com
and click on the Quad Cities page.
• Connecting the
Pieces for Iowa's Children: Early Childhood Symposium (Amana)
April 28 - 29
Amana
Holiday Inn (Interstate 80 @ Amana exit)
SCRIPT (Supporting Changes and Reform in
Interprofessional Preservice Training) and HRSA (Health Resource and Service
Administration) are jointly sponsoring this symposium. The keynotes for the
conference will be Lt. Governor Sally Pederson and Camille Catlett from the
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. The symposium will emphasize
early care, health, and education pre-service training. For more information, contact: kschulte@idph.state.ia.us
• Adult AD/HD
Conference: New Frontiers in AD/HD
May 12 - 15, Westin LaPaloma Hotel, Tucson,
Arizona
This 11th annual conference offers the best in
research and resources for adult attention deficit disorder. For conference information see: http://www.add.org
• National ADA
Symposium & EXPO
May 17 - 19
Kansas
City-Overland Park Convention Center
A comprehensive training event on the
Americans with Disabilities Act and related disability issues, including
accessible information technology. Presenters are nationally recognized experts
in their fields.
For
more information: http://www.adaupdate.org/Symposium.html
• Alternatives to
Behavior: Questions all Administrators Should Ask (Interventions, Supports and
Settings)
June 23,
9 am to 3:30 pm
Embassy
Suites, Des Moines, IA
For
more information: Suana Wessendorf, Consultant, Iowa
Department of Education, Suana.Wessendorf@iowa.gov or 515-281-5447.
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Community Living Transition Grant Recipient Selected
Congratulations to the Glenwood Resource Center, this year’s recipient of the Conner Training Consortium Community Living Transition Grant. Funds will support ten individuals who have moved from the Glenwood Resource Center to community-based settings in Glenwood. More details of this innovative use of funds will appear in the next issue of Possibilities.Top of this page - - Disability Training home page
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
--Helen Keller
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