An old and powerful presentation, now available on the Internet.
"Throughout History...."
I first ran across this idea in late 1970 in a medical clinic where I did testing. It was also used to expand chest and vital capacity in kids with brain injury who did very little exercise (the increased CO2 requires deeper breathing to get the same amount of oxygen into the lungs). Nice to see an actual design for the mask rather than the tinkered version we used.
BalancAir is a medical device company specializing in stopping seizures in patients suffering from epilepsy. The company will be selling a medical mask that offers a safe and drug free alternative to current treatments. The mask increases the CO2 in the air the patient breaths in and thus decreases the PH value in the patient’s blood, stopping the seizure. Every year in the US alone app. 50,000 people die from prolonged epileptic seizures. The BalancAir mask stops these prolonged seizures within 20 sec. where current drug based treatment takes at least 5-10 minutes to work.
Although targeted to schools, we can all use some help to support our life-long learning.
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Change is centered upon
which proposes that multiple methods of :
- Representation
- Engagement
- Expression
Change is also centered on
As good an analysis as I have seen
Americans are segregating by income more than ever before. Forty years ago, most cities (including Detroit) had a mixture of wealthy, middle-class, and poor residents. Now, each income group tends to lives separately, in its own city — with its own tax bases and philanthropies that support, at one extreme, excellent schools, resplendent parks, rapid-response security, efficient transportation, and other first-rate services; or, at the opposite extreme, terrible schools, dilapidated parks, high crime, and third-rate services.
The geo-political divide has become so palpable that being wealthy in America today means not having to come across anyone who isn’t.
What is direct action?
It’s what activists call “taking it to the streets” and can include marches, vigils, protests and civil disobedience.
All the civil rights that we enjoy today were gained by direct action, then, the policy stuff came into play.
The details of Jenny Hatch’s life have come under scrutiny in acomplicated guardianship case that is pitting her wishes against those of her parents and testing the rights of adults with disabilities to choose how they live. The 29-year-old wants to move in with friends and continue the life she had, working at a thrift shop and riding her bike everywhere. Her parents want her to remain in a group home, supervised and protected.
A highly specific type of sensory overload. Examples also happen in persons with autism.
But some people are more than merely annoyed—certain sounds can send them into an agonized frenzy. There’s the journalist from Atlanta who wanted to reach across the dinner table to strangle his loudly chewing father; the computer scientist from Arizona who hated the sound of knives so much his girlfriend developed a phobia, too; the housewife from Oregon who moved her whole family out of her home so she wouldn’t have to listen to them. One teen couldn’t stand the sound of her mother sighing and, after going on anti-depressants, attempted suicide three times. Psychologists have begun to call them misophones—people with an acute reaction to specific, usually low-volume sounds. But because the condition is still poorly understood, sufferers struggle to convince their families, friends, and employers that their problem isn’t just a heightened form of neuroticism. In this hotel, however, where the first-ever scientific conference on misophonia was being held, tales of extreme aural agony were pouring forth, and sufferers who thought they were alone in their misery were finally meeting others of their kind. You just had to be very, very careful with your cutlery.
When I was four years old, a doctor advised my parents that I should undergo a "routine" hysterectomy. It was recommended, the doctor said, to prevent the future inconvenience of menstruation. My parents, thankfully, were horrified and high-tailed it out of there, taking me and my four year old uterus with them.
It's been easy for me to share my story; I had a lucky escape. But for many women, the thought of speaking publicly about what happened to them is unthinkable. While simply possessing a uterus doesn't make you a woman, having yours taken from you without your consent can certainly cause you to question your identity and security. Many women I've spoken to who have undergone such procedures feel a deep sense of shame and violation.
Claudia Gordon will serve as a liaison between the Obama administration and the disability community as associate director in the White House Office of Public Engagement, an administration official told Disability Scoop. Her first day was Monday.
Gordon replaces Kareem Dale who was the first-ever special assistant to the president for disability policy. Dale, who was hired early in President Barack Obama’s first term, left the post earlier this year.
Gordon comes to the White House from the U.S. Department of Labor where she worked to ensure that federal contractors were not discriminating against their employees.
Prior to that, Gordon, who is deaf, held positions at the National Association of the Deaf Law and Advocacy Center and at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where she was the primary author of an executive order on emergency preparedness for people with disabilities.
This kind of stigma remains a real force in American society even if it has moved underground.
By the summer of 1933, the Nazis had Germany firmly in their grip. With this newfound power, the far-right party decided to mould German society in the image of its own making.
A decisive step towards achieving that aim was the introduction of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, or Sterilization Law, that passed in the Reichstag on July 14, 1933. The law stated that people suffering from particular illnesses could be forcibly sterilized in order to prevent the spread of hereditary diseases.
Followers of the eugenics movement believed that the German population could be genetically "improved" and welcomed the law. For the victims of forced sterilization, this violent physical intrusion meant a life without the possibility of having children. Many were heavily traumatized and suffered their entire lives.
The National Socialists hoped to realize the dream of "master race" in which "diseased" and "weak" people had no place.