How One Woman's Quest To Change The Face Of Beauty Might Actually Be Working. CHICAGO -- For Palos Park, Ill., mother Katie Driscoll, it all started with one photograph.
When Driscoll's sixth child was born, the mother of five boys was happy to have her first girl. The news of her daughter having Down syndrome did not diminish her excitement. "I didn't want people to feel sorry for her or for us because I was proud of who she was," she told The Huffington Post. So, Driscoll picked up her camera and started taking pictures of her daughter, Grace -- photographs that would eventually be shared with the world. Before long, the photos turned to blogging, and blogging eventually became a full-fledged campaign, titled Changing the Face of Beauty and aimed at urging companies to include images of people with disabilities in their advertisements. "I believe imagery is the strongest form of communication we have.
Driscoll with her daughter, Grace. Among those replies was one from actress and author Tori Spelling's Little Maven children's clothing line last fall. The aRe word: the lecture. We are rushing because the weather's turned bad again and we're going to have to leave earlier to get to the venue where I'll be giving a lecture this morning - The aRe Word: How to Support People with Intellectual Disabilities who Tell You That They are Being Teased and Bullied.
I'll be in Peterborough this morning and Oshawa this afternoon. I'm impressed when I'm asked to give this lecture. \ So often the 'just ignore it' movement - the one that suggests that this is a solution - has people thinking that by saying those three little words, they've intervened and supported - denies that there should be any training at all. Sen. Tom Harkin: Disability Employment: Are We at the Tipping Point? Later this month, when our country marks the 22nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, many of the law's champions will lament that the employment situation for our citizens with disabilities has not improved since the ADA was signed.
In recent years, that situation has gotten worse. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the disability workforce shrank by over 10 percent during the recession, five times faster than the non-disability workforce, which shrank by only about two percent. And BLS data released earlier this month reveal that as the rest of the workforce has slowly begun to recover, the disability workforce has lagged. The number of working age Americans without disabilities participating in the labor force grew by almost 3 million in the past year. During the same period, the number of workers with disabilities declined by 94,000. Today, in my role as chair of the U.S.
Ready4work - Interviews with Disability Support Workers. Field - furthering inclusive learning and development’s Presentations on SlideShare. About ARC's Active Support Service. Marc Gold & Associates. These beliefs led Marc to pursue a doctorate at the University of Illinois and to formalize a system of teaching skills to persons with severe disabilities, especially people labeled mentally retarded.
By the early seventies, Marc was teaching at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and he was lecturing throughout the United States and Canada. His lectures involved presenting three day workshops on this new systematic training approach he called "Try Another Way". This system provided an organizational framework, instructional strategies and a value-base useful for teaching persons with even the most severe disabilities to perform sophisticated tasks or competencies, as they were referred to in the jargon of the system. Video: Dr. Marc Gold: Try Another Way. Dr.
Marc Gold (26 Minutes) Marc Gold: The behaviors our children show are a reflection of our incompetence, not theirs. Narrator: This is the bench where Tom works, and this is a poem written by Dr. Marc Gold: If you could only know me for who I am, Instead of for who I am not, There would be so much more to see, Because there’s so much more that I’ve got. So long as you see me as mentally retarded, Which supposedly means something, I guess, There’s nothing you or I could ever do, To make me a human success. Some day you’ll know that tests aren’t built To let me stand next to you, By the way you test me, all they can do Is make me look bad, through and through. Marc Gold: Overview. Overview "The behaviors our children show are a reflection of our incompetence, not theirs.
" This is the bench where Tom works, and this is a poem written by Dr. Marc Gold: If you could only know me For who I am instead of for who I am not There would be so much more to see Cuz there’s so much more that I’ve got. So long as you see me as mentally retarded Which supposedly means something I guess There’s nothing you or I could ever do To make me a human success. Someday you will know That tests aren’t built to let me stand next to you. By the way you test me All they can do is make me look bad Through and through. And some day soon I’ll get my chance When some of you finally adapt. You’ll be delighted to know That though I’m MR I’m not at all handicapped. Try Another Way is an introduction to a new training concept for the mentally retarded a concept created by Dr.