Web Version | Update preferences | Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward TABLE OF CONTENTS • February 2019 Newsletter • 2019 Special Olympics BC Winter Games coming so soon • Make a splash with the Polar Plunge for SOBC • Taking action for inclusion • Tools to help your health • One month to go for Special Olympics Team […]
By Krystian Shaw (Kamloops, B.C.) Hi my name is Krystian Shaw. As many of you already know, I own, as well as run The Kamloops Self Advocate Newsletter for the last 5 years. Now I am branching out doing podcasts which focus on disability awareness, success stories and inclusion for all, just like my […]
There are times when powerlessness is the only sensible reaction. Joe and I were watching a television program and just as it ended, building up to an emotional climax, one of the characters uses the ‘R-word.’ It’s like a sucker punch, the whole of the ending is thrown off, our understanding of the characters involved […]
Yesterday I gave my first lecture of 2019. I’ve had a long time off from travel, and even this was just an hour and bit away, it still counts. Hotel rooms, supper via delivery guy, room full of people looking at me. The longer I take off from lecturing, and this was the longest time […]
Accessibility is Attitude because Attitude leads to Action because Action conquers Architecture. Did I mention that I love alliteration? Actually, I’m not at all trying to be cute. I believe every word of that sentence. Access comes from an attitude that believes that people with disabilities have a right to exist in all spaces and […]
Acting scary and being scary are very different things. I noted this the other day when Joe and I went out for lunch. We’d finished our meal and decided to stroll around the mall window shopping, otherwise being described as ‘between paydays’. I noticed a young woman of maybe about 14 sitting on a bench, […]
The girls are staying with us this weekend. We have a routine we all like. It starts with Saturday morning hoping in the car and heading over to the center where I go to the gym and Joe and the Ruby and Sadie go to the pool. We’re there for 2 hours. When we’re done […]
What does disability mean? Sometimes nothing, nothing at all. I think this may be the most surprising aspect of the disability experience. Sometimes it means something. Sometimes it doesn’t. We went to the mall for lunch the other day. We like food courts. This court has tables designated for disabled patrons, they are a little […]
So now that I’m a gym bunny, I’ve taken to writing down weights and reps so that I can keep track and push myself. It turned out that I had been going every week and doing the same thing thinking it was more. So writing it down helps. Today at the gym something very funny […]
Victoria Friday, February 15, 2019 12:30 PM This is for those Self Advocates that on Family Day that venture out into the back country safety tips that need to know if get into some sort trouble outdoors on Family Day long weekend No one expects to have to make a call for help when out […]
