Also, always remember that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. You are their partner, and no one knows your child better than you. You need to work with your education partners to make sure that your child is getting everything they need at school, and that you are doing everything at home to make sure that there is a consistent focus on education both at home and at school.
Your child should not feel that there is one set of expectations at home and another set of expectations at school. You want to have relationships with your educators and school administrators. Learn to be an advocate for your child, and this will teach your child to be a self-advocate.
I encourage more people to reach out to Easterseals. We are here to help. We want to bring more people into this tent. Right now, there is a big tent and there are not enough of us in it. The best way to make progress is to bring in more people and more resources into the tent. Tonight, Thursday, November 18, , I will be one of four women with disabilities on an hour-long ….
Tonight, Thursday, November 18, , I will be one of four women with disabilities on an hour-long free Zoom panel sponsored by the Skokie Public Library:. What does self-advocacy look like when navigating the world with a disability? Panelists will share lessons learned and provide tips on fighting for more fair and just treatment in the workplace and beyond.
The four of us will each be given 10 minutes to tell a few personal stories of advocating for ourselves, leaving time afterwards for discussion and questions. My plan is to talk fast and describe three experiences, one a success, another a collaboration, and the third a failure:. The hour-long panel is free, it will be hosted on Zoom on Thursday, November 18 at 7pm CST, and you can register for it here.
You can attend free of charge even if you are not a member of the Skokie Public Library. Call the library at For me, this pandemic has been a real paradox. It has brought a lot of hardship and loss, but it has also expanded my horizons. The biggest positive change? No more worries about transportation, finding the right street address, getting turned around in crowds.
For that, I am very thankful. Teaching myself new apps, gaining more respect for Uber drivers, making new friends, trying new things. I have a lot to feel thankful for, and I hope that on the days that things seem uncertain and the world seems scary, you can find some silver linings, too. He shares with us his thoughts on National Disability Employment Awareness Month and why companies must include disability in their diversity and inclusion efforts.
What is your current position at Old National Bank? Did I hear you have another job as well? Which job should I describe? He said with a smile. At ONB, I serve as a Diversity and Inclusion Outreach Specialist, where I work to create a more inclusive atmosphere for people with disabilities both within our company and the communities we serve. I run point on Achieve Ability, a program that pairs aspiring professionals with disabilities with leaders at ONB for a month mentoring relationship.
Our goal with Achieve Ability is to empower people with disabilities through a deep and meaningful relationship with a leader at Old National Bank. So, when the opportunity presented itself to run for a City Council position — I was in.
Not only am I able to utilize my passion for advocacy to benefit the people of the First Ward whom I represent I was able to harness my competitive nature to beat the other guy in the election! Therefore, I believe my disability has naturally made me — I think — into a better and stronger advocate for myself and the people I serve in the First Ward as a Councilman. National Disability Employment Awareness Month is the time to promote inclusion of people with disabilities in the workforce.
It is the best time of the year to share success stories, demystify myths, and inspire companies and their leaders to become more inclusive.
For the employer community, some can brag about how inclusive their workforce is already, and some can utilize this month to learn from the leaders in the industry by reading stories and attending webinars. What are some of the best things about hiring people with disabilities? Why should companies consider this untapped market? We navigate a world that was not created for us.
We have found a way to do and accomplish, each and every day. We are resilient. We are fathers, daughters, and nieces. We are travelers, customers, and teammates. We are a large part of society that understands adversity. If you include us, we will help you solve problems, we will help you better connect to potential clients, and we will welcome you in as friends and family.
Our society is not entirely trained to work with and understand people with disabilities. We do life a little differently. So, we must be our own advocates to teach others about what we need to be successful. As a personal example, in life I must advocate my needs to my caregivers, whether family, friends or a home healthcare worker. I must kindly instruct them to scratch my nose, to check if a shoe is put on correctly, or how to properly restart my computer after it crashes.
It happens! While on the job, I find myself teaching my manager and coworkers about what life is like for a person with a disability. What I can do. Yes, I sure can do that, boss. Be you. Be bold. There has been an equality reckoning in the last decade, specifically in the last three years. Now more than ever you have the power to seek a quality company.
You have the power to prove your abilities. Be you and everything else will fall into place. How do you think the pandemic has affected the employment status of people with disabilities? That means that a sarcastic, passionate quadriplegic from Indiana can participate in a business development call with a potential partner in Minnesota — no questions asked. True story! Prior to the pandemic, there is no way I would be asked to handle business development relationships, as the old school rule was coffee, lunches, and dinners.
Lots of travel. The travel nightmare is no longer such a serious detriment to fulfilling my career. Overall, employers have realized that remote work works. As we know, people with disabilities — specifically those with mobility challenges — have issues with access to reliable transportation and in many cases reliable caregivers.
Therefore, it can be a difficult task to travel to work as consistently as an able-bodied human. Sometimes caregivers get sick. Life happens. Any nonprofit organization or school may use the materials as long as they give credit to the Wisconsin Bike Fed. Permission is not given to for-profit organizations to use these materials without special permission.
Both education programs are hands-on, involve walking or biking and include a series of homework assignments:. To download a free PDF of both curricula, please click here.
Thanks to the Bicycle Transportation Alliance for assistance with this project. To download past Safe Routes to School plans, click here. Both education programs are hands-on, involve walking or biking and include a series of homework assignments: Safe Routes to School Train-the-Instructor workshops Program planning and community outreach Grant writing assistance In-school education Pedestrian and bicycle crash maps and analysis Bicycle parking design and plans We also have tools available to help you start your own Safe Routes to School programs.
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