Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Able to go to College - Episode Nine : Gummy Sweat Shirts
This week my team got sweatshirts. There is only one other team with sweat shirts in the whole league. I have spent years watching my sisters playing sports for their schools and I wanted a turn so a few weeks ago I had ask Coach J about the sweat shirts and we got them. I remember coming home from school Tuesday night and finding it there on the banister. I was so excited. Seeing something that I dreamed of come to life is priceless. Dreams can come true. This week I also chewed gum for the first time while doing the bee lab report. Gum chewing is really hard because of CP. So that was huge.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
A tough Birthday
So today is my mom's b day. However my dad is not home because last night he had to go to mexico because his dad my Grandpa died early tuesday morning. Book gal and the man leave for Mexico in a few hours. I am staying here with my mom. In true AZ form I am going to write a tribute poem to honor my Grandpa soon.
Monday, June 3, 2013
The best choice my parents ever made for me : An inclusion success story
So I have been hearing multiple times about the fight parents need to have to give their child an inclusive education. Every time I hear about this my heart breaks because I know what the benefits are to being include and I feel so powerless because I can not anything to fix the system but hopefully it will be different in three years since I am becoming a special education teacher for now his is all I do I hope everyone enjoys the video. Feel Free to share just leave a comment first.
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
AZ Fiction Reading List
From the time I was young, I have loved to read and as I have gotten older I have had to discover books about characters with disabilities , cuz lets face it reading about average people is boring when u have a disability because you do not have anything to relate to, Here are some books that I have found and loved that have characters that live with disabilities I have just finished American Lit so keeping with the theme all of these books are written by Americans.
ACCIDENTS OF NATURE
I first learned of this book through other youth leaders at I am Norm. This is about a girl with CP who has been mainstreamed her whole life but goes to summer camp for those with disabilities. Very good but it is set in 1970 so the R word will rear its ugly head. Talks about the average
community vs the special needs community in an accessible way.
OUT OF MY MIND
If you have a child friend student who has a speech impairment you need to read this book. This is the story of a little girl with prety significant CP. She can not walk or talk but knows exactly whats going on. This needs to be turned into a movie. It is viral that parents read this book
The Story of Beautiful Girl
1968 A women with developmental disabilities gives birth to a baby girl only problem is she lives in an institution She runs away with her deaf boyfriend and she comes to the home of a retired school teacher. Unfortunately the women and her boy friend are caught but the girl is not found by the officials Read how their lives unfold. R word is in the book. The book captures the disability rights movement.
Nobody's Perfect
Great book written about a deaf girl who is bothered by the fact that a new girl does not like her. Turns out that the new girl has a secret
One of the Authors is Marlee Matlin the deaf actress who is best known for Children of a Lesser god.
She also has written two other books , yet I like this one the best.
Wonder
A kid who looks different starts the fifth grade for the first time. Very good read talks about bullying.
Still reading this one. This is about three kids who have recently moved into a SF home that was once owned by a author. The youngest of the three kids has dyslexia. They go on a adventure to save their mom and dad. Fairly new book
Memory keepers daughter
A doctor delivers his own twins . A boy and a girl with down syndrome. He sends the nurse on call to take the baby to a group home;however, she refuses. Things are complicated because the Doctor's wife thinks that the child has died.
Part one of the list. Do you guys have more Fiction books. Next up is memoirs
ACCIDENTS OF NATURE
I first learned of this book through other youth leaders at I am Norm. This is about a girl with CP who has been mainstreamed her whole life but goes to summer camp for those with disabilities. Very good but it is set in 1970 so the R word will rear its ugly head. Talks about the average
community vs the special needs community in an accessible way.
OUT OF MY MIND
If you have a child friend student who has a speech impairment you need to read this book. This is the story of a little girl with prety significant CP. She can not walk or talk but knows exactly whats going on. This needs to be turned into a movie. It is viral that parents read this book
The Story of Beautiful Girl
1968 A women with developmental disabilities gives birth to a baby girl only problem is she lives in an institution She runs away with her deaf boyfriend and she comes to the home of a retired school teacher. Unfortunately the women and her boy friend are caught but the girl is not found by the officials Read how their lives unfold. R word is in the book. The book captures the disability rights movement.
Nobody's Perfect
Great book written about a deaf girl who is bothered by the fact that a new girl does not like her. Turns out that the new girl has a secret
One of the Authors is Marlee Matlin the deaf actress who is best known for Children of a Lesser god.
She also has written two other books , yet I like this one the best.
Wonder
A kid who looks different starts the fifth grade for the first time. Very good read talks about bullying.
Still reading this one. This is about three kids who have recently moved into a SF home that was once owned by a author. The youngest of the three kids has dyslexia. They go on a adventure to save their mom and dad. Fairly new book
Memory keepers daughter
A doctor delivers his own twins . A boy and a girl with down syndrome. He sends the nurse on call to take the baby to a group home;however, she refuses. Things are complicated because the Doctor's wife thinks that the child has died.
Part one of the list. Do you guys have more Fiction books. Next up is memoirs
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
I graduated but
before I share photos of graduation I will finish up Able to go to college web series if y ou are new and do not know about the series here is some thing to fill you up to speed
During the 2012 Spring semester I took videos once a week talkin g about college life with disabilities. Now its time to finish up the series.
During the 2012 Spring semester I took videos once a week talkin g about college life with disabilities. Now its time to finish up the series.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Spring Games
Spring has sprung
So Saturday was the spring games. I had fun. I participated in track and field. I ran the 100 and 4 by 100 and the turbo jave, a plastic javelin. I was really nervous about running my first race( the 100 meter dash) because I fell the year before but I did not fall and got sliver. In the four by 100 I was able to pass up another runner as anchor for second place. In jav, I got first because no one was in my division. Now we just have to see if I get to go to summer games. It would be a nice thing to do in the summer. If I do not get to go as an athlete this year I might go to watch since I have never been to summer games.
So Saturday was the spring games. I had fun. I participated in track and field. I ran the 100 and 4 by 100 and the turbo jave, a plastic javelin. I was really nervous about running my first race( the 100 meter dash) because I fell the year before but I did not fall and got sliver. In the four by 100 I was able to pass up another runner as anchor for second place. In jav, I got first because no one was in my division. Now we just have to see if I get to go to summer games. It would be a nice thing to do in the summer. If I do not get to go as an athlete this year I might go to watch since I have never been to summer games.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
No one would have predicted : three years later
I do not blame myself because I had been brainwashed into thinking I was not college material. I knew I was smart and could comprehend, yet my teachers in high school did not see potential in me and I had no friends who could relate to going to college with significant disabilities. All the kids my age with with disabilities were in the Adult transition program. I did not qualify for the program, yet junior year the schools workability school representative told my mom that I should find a job at Safeway. I was hurt. So you see how scared I was to leave high school.
Too make matters worse due to my terrible monstrous behavior, most teachers in high school did not allow me to contact them. I have tried to befriend so many of my former teachers who have befriended other students , yet most ignore me including my special education teacher. I think they did not want to hear my tdradigies that were going to happend or so they thought,
I finally got the college thing down and I made the dean's list. I developed close bonds with professors and staff. My behavior improved a ton to the point where teachers LIKE me. I have asked them if they are sure that they are not confusing me with Princess, yeah I know she is not at the same school.
Just today this conversation took place between Professor D and me,
AZ: Thanks for tolerating me this semester
ProfD: No problem its been my pleasure,
AZ: What?
a student: Its been his pleasure.
ProfD: Keep in touch I will fallow your blog.
For ProfD: Thanks for being supper nice to me and helping me out. I hope we keep in touch if you do not mind. I may be visiting in the fall. Your words mean a lot to me and show me how far I have come. Thanks for leading me to believe that I am a decent person. I love comments on the blog btw
Now do not get me wrong I still have hard behaviors at home and in DSPS, yet I am
learning how to deal with them in a mature mannor. Part of it is habit. I have to retrain my reactions which is not easy but I am going to be graduating JC and Transferring to University. Right now my Major is Liberal Studies but I am thinking of switching it to English with my end goal being a Special Education teacher. I am not going to a day program, I am not going to a shelter workshop. I am going to University.
Too be honest I have been afraid yet I feel like this time thing will be different. I will stay in contact with many professors at the JC and support Staff at DSPS. I hope to take some more classes their if time permits I have grown and I am ready. Transition will be hard,yet their are two major thing that will be different. I have a ton of people who support me now and most importantly, I believe in myself now.
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