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Mitchell Marcus, mentally disabled basketball player - Coronado High School.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T_oBOzz_U4

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The next time you think you just can't reach your goals in life, remember these amazing people who prove to us all, 'where there is a will, there is a way.' We all have challenges in life, but it's what we do with those challenges that counts.

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Against All Odds! May the Band March On!!!

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Against All Odds! May the Band March On!!!

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Patrick Henry Hughes was born blind but plays in the University of Louisville pep band thanks to the aid of his father.

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Teaching techniques for students with Learning Disabilities

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Teaching techniques for students with Learning Disabilities

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This youtube clip highlights one teacher's quest to help all types of students learn.

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The National Center for Learning Disabilities

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A Teaching Technique for Teachers of Students with Learning Disabilities

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Take a look at what other cultures promote for people with disabilities!

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Take a look at what other cultures promote for people with disabilities!

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FRANCE!!

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http://theinclusionclub.com This French edf advertisement is very clever and great to use as a discussion starter on attitudes to disability

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A disability is something to fix?

True or False?

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Until Tuesday! Physical and Psychological Impacts

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Until Tuesday! Physical and Psychological Impacts

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Golden Retriever Saved Army Veteran Luis Montalvan

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"Until Tuesday: The March of Advocacy" is the ongoing mission of former U.S. Army Capt. Luis Carlos Montalván and Tuesday, his faithful service dog. ***Since this video was made, official government statistics indicate that 22 U.S. Veterans commit suicide every day. (updated March 1, 2015)

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There is a lot of empirical research on counseling for

people with disabilities? True or False?

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Uploaded by Grace Ditzler on 2010-10-06.

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There are many categories to define disabilities. While mental illness is included under the umbrella of "disability," a common theme in people with disabilities is feelings of isolation.

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What year was brail invented?

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not just celebrities, but historical figures, role models, and pop icons!

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A disability is often used to refer to individual functioning, including physical impairment, sensory impairment, cognitive impairment, intellectual impairment, mental illness, and various types of chronic diseases. A disability can be present from birth, or occur during a person's lifetime.

Have a disability or medical condition?

You are not alone, people with disabilities include actors, actresses, celebrities, singers, world leaders, and many other famous people. Of course there are also millions of people worldwide who may not be famous in the sense society deems famous, but still live with, battle, and overcome their disabilities every single day of their lives.

These lists are a constant work in progress. Below you will find lists of many famous and well known people who have, or had, disabilities.

Lists of Famous People With Disability

Amputees - List of well known and famous people who currently are, or were amputees. A large proportion of amputees experience the phenomenon of phantom limbs, they feel body parts that are no longer there. These limbs can itch, ache, and feel as if they are moving.

Asperger's Syndrome - A list of famous people who either have or had Aspergers Syndrome during their life. People with Asperger's Syndrome are often described, as having social skills deficits, reluctance to listen, difficulty understanding social give and take, and other core characteristics.

Asthma - List of well known and famous persons both living and deceased who have and had Asthma in their lives. Asthma is caused by a complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors that researchers do not fully understand yet. These factors can also influence how severe a person's asthma is and how well they respond to medication.

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) - A list of well known people who are known to have autism or a related condition on the autism spectrum. Autism is a general term used to describe a group of complex developmental brain disorders - autism spectrum disorders - caused by a combination of genes and environmental influences.

Cerebral Palsy - A list of well known and famous persons both living and deceased who have or had Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral palsy is caused by abnormal development or damage to the parts of the brain that control movement, balance, and posture. Most often the problems occur during pregnancy; however, they may also occur during childbirth, or shortly after birth.

Cleft - List of well known people with a cleft a congenital deformity caused by a failure in facial development during pregnancy. Cleft lip and cleft palate, which can also occur together as cleft lip and palate are variations of a type of clefting congenital deformity caused by abnormal facial development during gestation. This type of deformity is sometimes referred to as a cleft.

Club Feet or Foot - A list of well known and famous people who have or had either a club foot or feet. A clubfoot, or talipes equinovarus (TEV), is a birth defect. The foot is twisted in (inverted) and down. Without treatment, persons afflicted often appear to walk on their ankles, or on the sides of their feet. It is a common birth defect, occurring in about one in every 1,000 live births.

Dementia - A list of famous and/or well known people who currently have or had dementia, a progressive decline in cognitive function. Dementia is the progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging.

Dyslexia - A list of famous persons living and deceased who are Dyslexic or had Dyslexia in their life. Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that manifests primarily as a difficulty with written language, particularly with reading and spelling.

Epilepsy - A list of famous and well known people have or had epilepsy during their lives. Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that is characterized by recurrent unprovoked seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms due to abnormal, excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain.

Hearing Impairments - List of famous and well known people who are or were deaf and have or had hearing impairments. A hearing impairment exists when an individual is not sensitive to the sounds normally heard by its kind. In human beings, the term hearing impairment is usually reserved for people who have relative insensitivity to sound in the speech frequencies.

Lou Gehrigs Disease (ALS) - A list of famous and well known people with or had ALS or Lou Gehrigs Disease one of the most common neuromuscular diseases worldwide. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, sometimes called Lou Gehrig's Disease, or Maladie de Charcot) is a progressive, usually fatal, neurodegenerative disease caused by the degeneration of motor neurons, the nerve cells in the central nervous system that control voluntary muscle movement.

Meniere's Disease - A list of well known and people who are famous who have or had Menieres Disease. Meniere's disease is an abnormality of the inner ear causing a host of symptoms, including vertigo or severe dizziness, tinnitus or a roaring sound in the ears, fluctuating hearing loss, and the sensation of pressure or pain in the affected ear.

Mood Disorders - List of famous people with mood disorders including depression, biopolar disorder, and cyclothymia mania. A mood disorder is a condition whereby the prevailing emotional mood is distorted or inappropriate to the circumstances. The two major types of mood disorders are depression or unipolar depression and bipolar disorder.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) - List of famous and well known people both living and deceased who have and had multiple sclerosis (MS). Multiple sclerosis affects an estimated 300,000 people in the United States and probably more than 1 million people around the world. MS effects twice as many females as males.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) - List of famous and well known people who had, or have, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). The phrase "obsessive-compulsive" has worked its way into the wider English lexicon, and is often used in an offhand manner to describe someone who is meticulous or absorbed in a cause.

Psoriasis - List of well known and famous people who had or currently have psoriasis in their life. Psoriasis (suh-RI-uh-sus) is a disease which affects the skin and joints. It commonly causes red scaly patches to appear on the skin.

Parkinson's Disease - List of well known and famous people who have, or did have, Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's disease belongs to a group of conditions called movement disorders. It is characterized by muscle rigidity, tremor, a slowing of physical movement and, in extreme cases, a loss of physical movement.

Polio - Explanation of the disease Polio and resource list of famous people living and deceased who had polio in their lives. Poliomyelitis, often called polio or infantile paralysis, is an acute viral infectious disease spread from person to person, primarily via the fecal-oral route.

Physically Disabled World Leaders and Politicians - A list of politicians and world leaders who currently hold or held office while having a significant physical disability.

Schizophrenia - List of well known and famous people who have and had Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality, most commonly manifesting as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions or disorganized speech and thinking in the context of significant social or occupational dysfunction.

Speech Differences and Stutter - List of well known and famous people who have and/or had speech differences including stuttering. Stuttering is generally not a problem with the physical production of speech sounds or putting thoughts into words. Despite popular perceptions to the contrary, stuttering does not affect and has no bearing on intelligence.

Spina Bifida - List of well known and famous people both past and present who were born with Spina Bifida. Spina bifida is a developmental birth defect involving the neural tube, incomplete closure of the embryonic neural tube results in an incompletely formed spinal cord.

Tourettes Syndrome - List of well known people both past and present who have or had Tourettes syndrome. The exact cause of Tourette's is unknown, but it is well established that both genetic and environmental factors are involved. Genetic studies have shown that the overwhelming majority of cases of Tourette's are inherited, although the exact mode of inheritance is not yet known, and no gene has been identified.

Vision Impairments - A list of famous and well known sight impaired people who are or were blind or blind in one eye. Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors. Total blindness is the complete lack of form and light perception and is clinically recorded as "NLP," an abbreviation for "no light perception.

Wheelchair Users - A list of well known and famous people who use or used wheelchairs since birth and later in life due to disabilities.

Disability Quotes - A collection of famous, and not so famous, interesting quotes regarding disability and health related disabilities.

Famous People who Died Young - List of well known and famous people who died before their time in accidents, from health conditions, and other causes.

Full Document List

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Page Sections: A disability is often used to refer to individual functioning, including physical impairment, sensory impairment, cognitive impairment, intellectual impairment, mental illness, and various types of chronic diseases. A disability can be present from birth, or occur during a person's lifetime. Have a disability or medical condition?

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A Large List of Movies featuring characters with a disability.....

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*limited access to income

*higher medical expenses

*limited education opportunities

*emotional maladjustment (being the burden)

*lower quality of life?

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Persons with a disability are likely to have limited opportunities to earn income and often have increased medical expenses.

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What's it Like to Live with a Disability Today?

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What's it Like to Live with a Disability Today?

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This website serves as a social networking space and community for people who live with disabilities today.

People can join or make their own groups.

Check out the news, interviews, and insights!

The community is growing! People today are breaking out of their "limits"!

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ilivewithadisability.com - "I AM BEAUTIFUL, NOT BROKEN"

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ILWAD.com was the first social networking platform of its kind, empowering the people with disabilities and their loved ones with the tools and resources they need to live a happy and fulfilling life. At ILWAD.com you are not defined by the limitations of your disability, rather you are defined by what you continue to overcome.

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Timeline of Disability Rights from 3500 BC- 1995. 

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Timeline of Disability Rights from 3500 BC- 1995. 

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Can you believe America didn't sign the ADA until 1990?!?!?

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Disability Social History Project - Timeline

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1508 Gotz von Berlichingen, German mercenary knight, had a reputation as a Robin Hood, protecting the peasants from their oppressors. In 1508 he lost his right arm in the Battle of Landshut. Gotz had two prosthetic iron hands made for himself. These were mechanical masterpieces.

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Not everyone with a disability considers it a disability! In the deaf culture many people consider it as part of who they are. A language that they speak.

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Getting a little deeper, this book is

recommended for more insightful

and abstract reading.

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US Elsevier Health Bookshop | Mosby, Saunders, Netter & more

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Professional medical textbooks for the medical, dental, veterinary, nursing, and other health professional fields. Free UPS Shipping on all orders.

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It's important to understand disabilities

from multiple perspectives including a child's!

"Don't Call Me Special: A First Look at Disability"

Pat Thomas

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A book titled " Don't Call Me Special" written by Pat Thomas, Narrative by Sylvia McGrath

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How is the vulnerability of someone with a disability

different than that of someone who does not have

a disability to a mental health problems?

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Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information & Exchange

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Located in the School of Public Health and Health Professions since 1999, CIRRIE facilitates the sharing of information and expertise between the U.S. and world-wide partners to improve the conditions of people with disabilities.

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Becoming aware of the client's worldview is one of our competencies. This packet requires partner work, but also provides some wonderful information. If you don't have people near by check it out! Go through and process these exercises. Then read about the interesting facts!!!

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Robinson-Wood discuss the idea that we live in a society that is obsessed with BEAUTY
and PERFECTION. This makes it difficult for us to accept people who have a disability without discomfort. This societal norm expectation was also discussed in Johnson's article.

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How can we as counselors make the most conducive counseling experience? Person-centered therapy seems to be a huge piece of a successful relationship with a person who has a disability. Pay close attention to how the author discusses what causes fear and anxiety when working with a person who has a disability.

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 Disabilities as a multicultural component in research

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 Disabilities as a multicultural component in research

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This article shows how there is very little empirical data on a marginalized group that has a significant prevelance in our society!!

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The textbook provides five recommendations according to Americans with Disabilities Act for mental health counselors when working with disabled clients. Following these recommendations can ensure the counselor is culturally competent to work with people with disabilities. They are as follows:

-Do not deny services to a client with disabilities
-Ensure equality of treatment with all clients, regardless of the existence (or not) of disability
-Provide accommodating tools for all clients- large print, braille, notepads, pencils, etc.
-Evaluate environment to ensure all clients have access to
building

-If building a new office, involve a contractor so that ADA
requirements are met

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Mental health professionals are responsible for addressing, evaluating, and assisting disability issues with clients.

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Six Stereotypes about the Disabled

1. People with disabilities are limited people,
different than the fully human person.

2. The successful disabled person must be “superhuman.”

3. The life of a disabled person is filled with
burden, both for the person and his caretaker.

4. A disability is a sickness/abnormality/something
to fix.

5. People with mental disabilities are menaces to
themselves/others/society.

6. People with disabilities are compensated with
some other heightened strength.

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Roles reversed...what if the dominant cultures were reversed????

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http://theinclusionclub.com This French edf advertisement is very clever and great to use as a discussion starter on attitudes to disability

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Disability encompasses a variety of internal and external conditions, capabilities, and limitations.