These 3-minute biographies of Ed Roberts, Wade Blank, and Justin Dart are book-ended with a one-minute intro and one minute conclusion of the disability rights movement. Running Time: 11 min http://vimeo.com/9221290

These 3-minute biographies of Ed Roberts, Wade Blank, and Justin Dart are book-ended with a one-minute intro and one minute conclusion of the disability rights movement.
Running Time: 11 min
http://vimeo.com/9221290

Lesson 1 of The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill As Applied To People With Disabilities

(I'm teaching the Lesson 1 to Sharon Rosete.)
There are 650 million people with disabilities in the world. Most live in misery, want and poverty. Most with thinking power and over 18 years of age have a narrow view of how to have money.

For example, in the Western Nations people with disabilities think about how to obtain money from government programs. A smaller subset think about obtaining jobs from employers who do not want to hire people with disabilities.  In third world countries people with disabilities think about begging or obtaining jobs. Worldwide, much thought is given to obtaining money, goods and services by charity for people with disabilities.

There is so much thought and imagination focused on charity, government funds and seeking jobs from unwilling employers, people with disabilities cannot imagine other ways of obtaining money - there imagination is disabled.

As Napoleon Hill aptly stated, imagination is a faculty of mind broaden and developed by use. Also, all human inventions and achievements were once conceived in the imagination. People with disabilities are only using 5% of their imagination by seeking jobs from unwilling employers or seeking help from charity or government sources. Due to poverty of imagination people with disabilities suffer from misery, want and failure.

Without imagination we, people with disabilities, are tempted by intolerance, cupidity, greed, jealousy, suspicion, revenge, egotism, conceit, receiving without working and spending more than what is earned. We fail to use the most powerful tool created by God and Nature - our ability to gather, organize and classify knowledge by thought to create our own economic power.

Due to disagreement and friction among disabled groups, we fail to have harmonious negotiations. We have no allegiance in perfect harmony to create businesses owned and operated by us - a disability economic private power mastermind.

We use the law of attraction to attract like people seeking jobs from unwilling employers, charity and government help. We need to attract like people that have a burning desire to create businesses we own and operate.

We need to blend our minds to create disability economic power.

We need great leaders that skillfully and artfully get us to create disability economic power without the use of fear or persuasion.

Fear controls us and chokes thinking and imagination. Fear is regulated by the limbic system which is called the mid brain. The mid brain warns us of fearful situations and we react to them by habit and not by thinking.

Our people are disabled by six basic fears:

1. Poverty.  People with disabilities fear poverty. This fear forces them to seek jobs from unwilling employers. This fear forces them to accept charity or to beg.  This fear keeps them seeking government aid and chokes imagination and risk taking.
2. Death. We fear death from our disability.  This fear chokes our imagination.
3. Ill Health.  "I'm ill or disabled so I can't" attitude. This fear encourages charity and helplessness.  This fear focuses on what we can't do and chokes the imagination of what we can do.
4. Loss of love. We want to be loved or belong but society rejects us. We fear rejection.
5. Old Age. This fear is the same as 2 and 3.
6. Criticism.  The fear of being criticized stops us from failing or succeeding. A person that does not fail can never succeed. We listen to others that criticize our imagination and we kill different ways of achieving economic powers.

If our fears do not destroy us lack of education will. I do not mean college education. Education means gaining knowledge to do your definite chief aim without violating the rights of others.  Getting a job is not a definite chief aim unless you have a burning desire to get the job even without money for a time. Also, money is a need not a desire.  So you cannot have a burning desire to only make money. For example, Steve Jobs gain the knowledge to make computers without a college degree because he had the burning desire to do it. He was educated.

The above is the application of the knowledge I acquired in Lesson 1 of The Law of Success by Napoleon Hill.    

Filipino Persons with Autism (PWA).

Carmona, Cavite, (PIA) -- The local government of Carmona impressed the audience with its programs for the Persons with Disability (PWD) during the recent Autism Society Philippines’ 12th National Conference on Autism and 2nd Southeast Asian Conference on Autism held at Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria, Ortigas Avenue in Quezon City on April 28 and 29. 

With the theme “Living with Autism: Hope@Home,” the conference aimed to promote, first and foremost, acceptance of autism within the family and empower the latter to make informed decisions and to take bolder steps to ensure quality of life for their member with autism. 

The conference also provided a fresh perspective to professionals and participants as collaborative and supportive partners of families in the management of autism. It highlighted the vital role of the family in developing self-advocates Filipino Persons with Autism (PWA). 

Carmona City mayor Dahlia Loyola’s presentation focused on the “Local Government’s Response to Autism: The Carmona Experience,” aimed to encourage other local government units and civil society groups in replicating the program and that with a meager means, as long as there is a political will to achieve the programs and projects for the disabled as the local government is proud advocates for PWD empowerment. 

Loyola was invited to speak before the audience of ASPs conference where she was given a standing ovation after the conclusion of her presentation on the program and services for PWDs in her municipality.http://www.cavite.info/article/carmona-city-impresses-confab-audience-on-pwd-programs.html

Carmona,Cavite

Disabled and Special Group Welfare Program

This refers to the provision of services on disability prevention, rehabilitation and equalization of opportunities for physically, mentally and socially disabled persons in order to enhance their capability to attain meaningful, productive and satisfying way of life as contributing members of society. Services under this program include prevention, social and self-enhancement of special children, practical skills development, family care, substitute family care, after care and follow-up.

http://carmonagov.net/home/for-residents/social-welfare.html

Asians with Disabilities Outreach Think Tank (ADOPT)

Funded by the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the Center for Capacity Building on Minorities with Disabilities Research (CCBMDR), in collaboration with the Division of Rehabilitation Services (DRS) of the Illinois Human Services Department and Asian-serving agencies, proposes to launch a 18-month capacity-building outreach project. This new initiative attempts to develop and test a strategy for increasing vocational rehabilitation agencies’ capacity to reach out to Asian American with disabilities, to ensure they will receive services from DRS in the city of Chicago.http://disabilityempowerment.org/Asianproject.html

The prejudice towards Asians with disabilities

I read with interest Andrew Buncombe's article regarding the difficulties faced by people with disabilities in Bangladesh (6 January). I am a British-born Asian and have been insulin-dependent for most of my life. It never ceases to amaze me how prejudiced Asian people are towards any condition which they feel should be swept under the carpet, and not discussed lest it may impinge on the prospect, in the case of women, of child-bearing.http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/letters-the-prejudice-towards-asians-with-disabilities-1301584.html

Increasing Access for Southeast Asians with Disabilities

http://www.ifes.org/Content/Publications/News-in-Brief/2011/May/Increasing-Access-for-Southeast-Asians-with-Disabilities.aspx